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491.01    — Were you with Sindy and Sandy attending Goliath, a bull?
–491.01+attending a ball
491.02    — You'd make me sag what you like to. I was intending a
–491.02+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–491.02+German sag: say
–491.02+Joyce: Ulysses.15.1201: 'BLOOM. No, no. Pig's feet. I was at a funeral'
–491.02+attending
491.03funeral. Simply and samply.
–491.03+
491.04    — They are too wise of solbing their silbings?
–491.04+there are two ways of solving
–491.04+German salben: to anoint, to salve
–491.04+German Silben: syllables
–491.04+siblings
491.05    — And both croon to the same theme.
–491.05+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–491.05+come to the same thing
491.06    — Tugbag is Baggut's, when a crispin sokolist besoops juts
–491.06+[[Speaker: Mark]]
–491.06+[490.08]
–491.06+Baggot Street, Dublin
–491.06+Saints Crispin and Crispinian: 3rd century Roman twin brothers and martyrs, patron saints of cobblers and leather workers
–491.06+Christian Socialists: 19th century reforming movement
–491.06+Christian Scientist
–491.06+Czech sokol: falcon
–491.06+VI.B.40.039d-f (b): 'besoop, jut, kemb clapperclaw, colpheg swinge lambskin' (last three words not crayoned)
–491.06+unknown newspaper 1934-5: 'The Vocabulary of Bethwackment': 'it is astounding to see the number and character of the verbs of drubbing which emerged in the sixteenth century. Here they are:... besoop... clapperclaw... colpheg... jut, kemb... lambskin... swinge' (the quote is from The Quarterly Review of the Michigan Alumnus (Michigan), Oct 1934, which is unlikely to have been Joyce's source)
–491.06+Obsolete besoop: Obsolete jut: Obsolete kemb: Archaic clapperclaw: to beat, thrash, strike
–491.06+Czech sup: vulture
491.07kamps or clapperclaws an irvingite offthedocks. A luckchange, I
–491.07+Irvingites: religious body excommunicated from Church of Scotland in 1833
–491.07+orthodox
491.08see. Thinking young through the muddleage spread, the moral
–491.08+middle-age spread (putting on weight)
491.09fat his mental leans on. We can cop that with our straat that is
–491.09+cope
–491.09+top
–491.09+Dutch straat: street
–491.09+Acts 9:11: 'the street that is called Straight'
491.10called corkscrewed. It would be the finest boulevard billy for a
–491.10+anecdote about an American visitor asking a boy if Patrick Street, Cork (which is U-shaped) was an important throughfare being replied: 'Man, dear, it would be the grandest street in the world if dey could only take the bind outa the middle of it'
491.11mile in every direction, from Lismore to Cape Brendan, Patrick's,
–491.11+Lismore: town, County Waterford (east of County Cork)
–491.11+Brandon Head, County Kerry (west of County Cork)
–491.11+Saint Brendan supposedly discovered America
491.12if they took the bint out of the mittle of it. You told of a tryst
–491.12+Slang bint: girl, whore
–491.12+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation bint: bend
–491.12+German Mittel-: middle-
–491.12+Tristan
491.13too, two a tutu. I wonder now, without releasing seeklets of the
–491.13+secrets
–491.13+German Skelett: skeleton
–491.13+eaglets
491.14alcove, turturs or raabraabs, have I heard mention of whose name
–491.14+VI.B.5.100d (r): 'alcove'
–491.14+Latin turtur: turtledove (Motif: dove/raven)
–491.14+Tartars or Arabs
–491.14+Dutch raaf: German Rabe: raven
–491.14+Danish rabrab: duck
–491.14+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...raabraabs, have I...} | {Png: ...raabraabs have, I...}
–491.14+his
491.15anywhere? Mallowlane or Demaasch? Strike us up either end
–491.15+Mallow: town, County Cork
–491.15+marshmallow: a type of sweet whitish confection (made from the root of the marsh-mallow plant until the late 19th century)
–491.15+Damascus
491.16Have You Erred off Van Homper or Ebell Teresa Kane.
–491.16+Have you heard of one Humpty (beginning of Hosty's ballad) [045.01]
–491.16+Bartholomew Vanhomrigh: 17th century Lord-Mayor of Dublin and father of Swift's Vanessa
–491.16+Italian è bella: (she) is beautiful
–491.16+able to raise a Cain (end of Hosty's ballad) [047.29]
–491.16+Motif: Cain/Abel
491.17    — Marak! Marak! Marak!
–491.17+{{Synopsis: III.3.3A.J: [491.17-496.21]: the dialogue drifts back to Persse O'Reilly — Yawn defends him through the voice of *A*}}
–491.17+[[Speaker: Yawn as Hosty]]
–491.17+Hebrew marak: soup
–491.17+Mark! (Motif: three cheers) [383.01]
491.18     He drapped has draraks an Mansianhase parak
–491.18+dropped his drawers in
–491.18+Mansion House: the Lord-Mayor's official residence, Dublin
–491.18+park
491.19     And he had ta barraw tha watarcrass shartclaths aff tha ark-
–491.19+Ulster Pronunciation ta barraw: to borrow
–491.19+watercress
–491.19+shirt-cloths off the archbishop of York
491.20bashap af Yarak!
–491.20+Ulster Pronunciation bashap: bishop
–491.20+in yarak: (of a hawk) in condition to hunt
491.21    — Braudribnob's on the bummel?
–491.21+German Bruder: brother
–491.21+Brobdingnag: a land of giants (*E*) in Swift: Gulliver's Travels
–491.21+German Bummel: stroll, promenade
491.22    — And lillypets on the lea.
–491.22+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–491.22+ALP (Motif: ALP)
–491.22+Lilliput: an island of midgets (*A*) in Swift: Gulliver's Travels
–491.22+Lea: river, England
–491.22+sea
491.23    — A being again in becomings again. From the sallies to
–491.23+(from *IJ* to *VYC* through *E*)
–491.23+sally: a sudden rush of besieged troops out upon their enemy
–491.23+Sally: the most prominent secondary personality of Christine in Prince: The Dissociation of a Personality
–491.23+song Sally in Our Alley
491.24the allies through their central power?
–491.24+World War I Allies (England, France, etc.)
–491.24+World War I Central Powers (Austro-Hungary, Germany, etc.)
491.25    — Pirce! Perce! Quick! Queck!
–491.25+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–491.25+Motif: P/Q
–491.25+Persse (Persse O'Reilly)
–491.25+Queequeg: character in Melville's Moby Dick [.32]
491.26    — O Tara's thrush, the sharepusher! And he said he was only
–491.26+Tara: ancient capital of Ireland
491.27taking the average grass temperature for green Thurdsday, the
–491.27+VI.B.6.065b (r): 'grass temperature'
–491.27+Freeman's Journal 10 Jan 1924, 6/1: 'Wintry Weather. Showers of Snow in Dublin': 'The grass temperature at 4 p.m. was 2 deg. below freezing point, and slight showers of snow fell in the Park'
–491.27+Green Thursday: Maundy Thursday
–491.27+turd (Earwicker defecating in Phoenix Park)
491.28blutchy scaliger! Who you know the musselman, his muscle-
–491.28+German Blut: blood (i.e. bloody)
–491.28+Scaliger: 15th century Italian scholar
–491.28+Latin scaliger: ladder-carrier (Finnegan)
–491.28+scalawag
–491.28+nursery rhyme 'Do you know the Muffin Man, The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man, Do you know the Muffin Man, That lives in Drury Lane?'
491.29mum and mistlemam? Maomi, Mamie, My Mo Mum! He loves
–491.29+Motif: Fee faw fum
491.30a drary lane. Feel Phylliscitations to daff Mr Hairwigger who
–491.30+Drury Lane: the common name of The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
–491.30+Slang Drury Lane ague: venereal disease
–491.30+dreary
–491.30+German viel: much, many, a lot of
–491.30+Dutch veel felicitaties: many congratulations
–491.30+syphilis
–491.30+felicitations
–491.30+deaf
–491.30+Earwicker
491.31has just hadded twinned little curls! He was resting between
–491.31+had twin
–491.31+girls
–491.31+German Kerl: fellow, chap
491.32horrockses' sheets, wailing for white warfare, prooboor welsht-
–491.32+Horrocks Ltd, English textile firm
–491.32+white whale: title character of Melville's Moby Dick [.25]
–491.32+Italian probo: honest
–491.32+pro-Boer (i.e. anti-British in the context of the Boer Wars)
–491.32+Anglo-Irish West Briton: Irish person affecting English manner, pro-British Irishman (pejorative)
–491.32+VI.B.21.211x (b): 'embarrassment of disposal'
491.33breton, and unbiassed by the embarrassment of disposal but, the
–491.33+a 1920s advertisement for Kotex women's sanitary pads: 'It discards easily as tissue. No laundry — no embarrassment of disposal'
491.34first woking day, by Thunder, he stepped into the breach and put
–491.34+working
–491.34+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...day, by...} | {Png: ...day by...}
–491.34+German Donnerstag: Thursday (literally 'thunder-day')
–491.34+phrase by Jove!: by God! (mild oath)
–491.34+breeches
–491.34+VI.A.0571c (g): 'lord Ashbourne put on his trousers when Ireland wouldn't recruit' (he was noted for wearing kilts)
491.35on his recriution trousers and riding apron in Baltic Bygrad, the
–491.35+recreation
–491.35+VI.B.21.211u (k): 'riding apron'
–491.35+(Motif: butcher's or bishop's apron or blouse)
–491.35+Danish by: Serbo-Croatian grad: city, town
491.36old soggy, was when the bold bhuoys of Iran wouldn't join up.
–491.36+song The Bold Boys of Erin


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