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494.01I to hear from your strawnummical modesty! Yes, there was
–494.01+astronomical majesty (Cluster: Astronomy)
494.02that skew arch of chrome sweet home, floodlit up above the
–494.02+VI.B.33.197a (r): 'a skew arch'
–494.02+Bowman: The Story of Lewis Carroll 44: (from a diary of Isa Bowman's visit to Oxford, written by Lewis Carroll) 'Then they went to New College... & saw, close to the entrance, a "skew" arch (going slantwise through the wall) one of the first ever built in England'
–494.02+(rainbow after flood) [493.29]
–494.02+song Home Sweet Home
494.03flabberghosted farmament and bump where the camel got the
–494.03+flabbergasted firmament (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.03+Matthew 19:24: 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God'
–494.03+American get the needle: be successfully done down
494.04needle. Talk about iridecencies! Ruby and beryl and chrysolite,
–494.04+iridescence
–494.04+indecencies
–494.04+minerals: ruby is red, beryl can be yellow, chrysolite is green, jade is green, sapphire is blue, jasper can be brown or green, lapis lazuli is dark blue (Motif: 7 colours of rainbow) [.04-.05]
–494.04+jewels in foundations of Holy City (Revelation 21:19-20): i) jasper, ii) sapphire, vii) chrysolyte, viii) beryl
494.05jade, sapphire, jasper and lazul.
–494.05+
494.06    — Orca Bellona! Heavencry at earthcall, etnat athos? Extinct
–494.06+Orca whale (killer whale)
–494.06+Italian orca: sow
–494.06+Latin orcus: lower world, death
–494.06+Italian arcobaleno: rainbow (symbol of peace)
–494.06+Bellona: Roman war-goddess
–494.06+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–494.06+Etna: volcano, Sicily
–494.06+Thanatos: in Greek mythology, a demon personifying death (from Greek thanatos: death)
–494.06+Athos: mountain, Greece
–494.06+extinguish
494.07your vulcanology for the lava of Moltens!
–494.07+vulcanology: science of volcanoes
–494.07+molten lava
–494.07+love of Moses
494.08    — It's you not me's in erupting, hecklar!
–494.08+interrupting
–494.08+HEC (Motif: HCE)
–494.08+heckler: one who taunts or insults a public speaker or performer
–494.08+Hekla: volcano, Iceland
–494.08+German klar: clear
494.09    — Ophiuchus being visible above thorizon, muliercula oc-
–494.09+Ophiuchus: the Serpent (constellation; Cluster: Astronomy; Cluster: Snakes)
–494.09+(*S*, or *Y*)
–494.09+the horizon (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.09+Latin muliercula: little woman (often pejorative)
–494.09+(*A*)
–494.09+Vulpecula (constellation; Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.09+occluded: hidden, covered
494.10cluded by Satarn's serpent ring system, the pisciolinnies Nova
–494.10+Sata: Egyptian serpent god (Budge: The Book of the Dead, ch. LXXXVII, p. 278: 'I am the serpent Sata whose years are many. I die and I am born again each day'; Cluster: Snakes)
–494.10+Satan
–494.10+rings of Saturn (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.10+(*E*)
–494.10+serpent (Cluster: Snakes)
–494.10+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...system, the...} | {Png: ...system the...}
–494.10+Pisces (constellation; Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.10+Italian pesciolini: little fishes
–494.10+(*IJ*)
–494.10+nova: new star (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.10+Latin nova: new
494.11Ardonis and Prisca Parthenopea, are a bonnies feature in the
–494.11+Adonis (William Shakespeare: other works: Venus and Adonis) [.13]
–494.11+Slang hard on: erection
–494.11+Latin prisca: old
–494.11+Parthenope: siren who drowned herself
–494.11+Dialect bonnie: attractive, pretty
–494.11+Boniface: generic proper name for an innkeeper
–494.11+Saint Bonaventure: 13th century Franciscan theologian
494.12northern sky. Ers, Mores and Merkery are surgents below the rim
–494.12+sky (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.12+Earth, Mars, Mercury (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.12+(*VYC*)
–494.12+Latin surgens: rising (Cluster: Astronomy)
494.13of the Zenith Part while Arctura, Anatolia, Hesper and Mesembria
–494.13+Motif: 4 cardinal points [.14]
–494.13+Greek Arktos: the bear star; the North (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.13+Greek Anatolios: the East (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.13+Greek Hesperos: the evening star; the West (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.13+Greek Mesêmbria: noon; the South (Cluster: Astronomy)
494.14weep in their mansions over Noth, Haste, Soot and Waste.
–494.14+(astrological houses; Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.14+North, East, South, West (Motif: 4 cardinal points) [.13]
–494.14+German Not: need
494.15    — Apep and Uachet! Holy snakes, chase me charley, Eva's
–494.15+Apep: Egyptian snake-god, a form of the monster-serpent Rerek (a.k.a. Apophis; Cluster: Snakes)
–494.15+a peep and watch it
–494.15+Uatchet: Egyptian snake-goddess, a lady of flame (Cluster: Snakes)
–494.15+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–494.15+(snakes possibly worshipped in ancient Ireland; Cluster: Snakes)
–494.15+(two snakes on uraeus, the crown of the pharaohs; Cluster: Snakes)
–494.15+phrase chase me Charlie! (a mild exclamatory catch-phrase of the early 20th century, after an 1899 music hall song of the same title)
–494.15+Chase Me Charlie: a 1917 Charlie Chaplin compilation film
–494.15+Charles, Eva: the names of two of Joyce's nine siblings
494.16got barley under her fluencies! The Ural Mount he's on the
–494.16+Irish Béarla: English language
–494.16+French parler: to talk, to speak
–494.16+flounces: ornamental appendages attached to the hem of a skirt or dress
–494.16+French français: French
–494.16+Ural Mountains
494.17move and he'll quivvy her with his strombolo! Waddlewurst,
–494.17+Stromboli, volcanic island
–494.17+Italian frombolo: sling
–494.17+what a
–494.17+German Wurst: sausage
494.18the bag of tow, as broad above as he is below! Creeping
–494.18+Italian bagatto: magician (in Tarot)
–494.18+The Emerald Table of Hermes Trismegistus, second precept: 'that which is above is like that which is below'
–494.18+(snakes creep; Cluster: Snakes)
494.19through the liongrass and bullsrusshius, the obesendean, before
–494.19+lion and bull are evangelical symbols
–494.19+lemongrass
–494.19+bullrushes
–494.19+obese end
–494.19+obsidian: a volcanic glass
–494.19+ophidian: snake (Cluster: Snakes)
–494.19+German absenden: to send off
494.20the Emfang de Maurya's class, in Bill Shasser's Shotshrift writing
–494.20+German Empfang: reception; radio reception
–494.20+French Enfants de Marie: Children of Mary (a Catholic girls' organisation; the Virgin Mary)
–494.20+Maurya: a powerful empire in ancient India (4th-2nd centuries BC)
–494.20+Belshazzar: 6th century BC crown prince and regent of Babylon (phrase the writing on the wall: warning signs of an impending disaster (from Belshazzar's feast in Daniel 5))
–494.20+Dutch schotschrift: lampoon
–494.20+German Kurzschrift: stenography (literally 'short writing')
494.21academy, camouflaged as a blancmange and maple syrop! Obei-
–494.21+VI.B.5.042e (r): '*V* camouflaged'
–494.21+(disguised as sweets to tempt little girls)
–494.21+Archaic syrop: syrup
–494.21+Italian serpe: snake (Cluster: Snakes)
–494.21+Latin Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas: Citizens' Obedience is City's Happiness (Motif: Dublin motto)
494.22sance so their sitinins is the follicity of this Orp! Her sheik to
–494.22+Slang sitinems: trousers
–494.22+Italian sottanine: petticoats
–494.22+(syrop) [.21]
–494.22+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Orp! Her...} | {Png: ...Orp. Her...}
494.23Slave, his dick to Dave and the fat of the land to Guygas. The
–494.23+Anglo-Irish phrase the back of my hand (deprecatory comment or retort) [308.F01]
–494.23+Gyges: Lydian king of proverbial wealth
–494.23+Greek gigas: giant
–494.23+Jesus
494.24treadmill pebbledropper haha halfahead overground and she'd
–494.24+VI.B.17.035i (b): 'climb treadmill' (only last word crayonned)
–494.24+Chervin: Bégaiement 409: (of the attempts of Demosthenes, the famous ancient Athenian orator, to deal with his speech impediment, as suggested by his friend Satyros) 'pour développer sa respiration, il lui recommanda de gravir les montagnes en récitant' (French 'to develop his breathing, he recommended him to climb mountains while reciting')
–494.24+treadmill: a wide hollow horizontal cylinder with steps around its periphery, made to revolve and drive a mill by a person, or animal, treading inside it (in the 19th century, used primarily for prison discipline)
–494.24+VI.B.17.035f ( ): '*E* at sea pebbles — mouth'
–494.24+Chervin: Bégaiement 409: (of the attempts of Demosthenes, the famous ancient Athenian orator, to deal with his speech impediment, as suggested by his friend Satyros) 'Mettez-vous quelques cailloux dans la bouche, votre articulation vous paraêtra plus facile lorsque vous ne vous en servirez pas' (French 'Put some stones in your mouth, your articulation will feel easier when you are not using them')
–494.24+pebble dropper [244.23]
–494.24+(Motif: stuttering)
–494.24+VI.B.17.035k (b): 'Demosthenes lives underground half head shaved' (only last three words crayoned)
–494.24+Chervin: Bégaiement 407: (of Demosthenes, the famous ancient Athenian orator) 'il fit construire un cabinet souterrain... dans lequel il allait tous les jours s'exercer à la déclamation et former sa voix. Il y passait jusqu'à deux ou trois mois de suite, ayant la moitié de la tête rasée, afin que la honte de paraître en cet état l'empˆchât de sortir' (French 'he had an underground study built... which he used daily to practise declamation and train his voice. He spent there up to two or three months at a time, having shaved half of his head, so that the shame of appearing in this state would prevent him from going out')
494.25only chitschats in her spanking bee bonetry, Allapolloosa! Up the
–494.25+[038.09-039.13]
–494.25+phrase bees in her bonnet
–494.25+ALP (Motif: ALP)
–494.25+American Slang lollapaloosa: an extraordinary thing, the cat's pyjamas
–494.25+Italian Slang o la pallosa!: oh, what a pain she is!
494.26slanger! Three cheers and a heva heva for the name Dan Magraw!
–494.26+Danish slanger: serpents, snakes (Cluster: Snakes)
–494.26+Motif: 2&3 (three cheers, heva x 2)
–494.26+song Master McGrath: '"Three cheers for old Ireland" says Master McGrath' (Motif: three cheers; Magrath)
–494.26+Hebrew Havvah: Eve
–494.26+Italian evviva!: hurrah!
–494.26+Robert E. Service: Shooting of Dan Magrew (poem)
–494.26+Daniel McGrath: grocer, wine merchant and publican, 4-5 Charlotte Street, Dublin (in Joyce's time; Magrath) [060.26]
494.27    — The giant sun is in his emanence but which is chief of those
–494.27+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: line is headed by a dash} | {Png: line is not headed by a dash}
–494.27+[[Speaker: Yawn as *A*]]
–494.27+sun (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.27+Sun in his Meridian: sura ninety-three of the Koran
–494.27+EHC (Motif: HCE)
–494.27+Latin emanens: spreading
–494.27+Eminences: sura seven of the Koran
494.28white dwarfees of which he ever is surabanded? And do you think
–494.28+white dwarf: type of star (Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.28+suras of the Koran
–494.28+surrounded
–494.28+sarabande: a slow dance
494.29I might have being his seventh! He will kitssle me on melbaw.
–494.29+(the seventh planet is Uranus; Cluster: Astronomy)
–494.29+(seventh wife) [215.15-.16]
–494.29+German kitzeln: Dialect kittle: to tickle
–494.29+kiss
–494.29+my elbow
494.30What about his age? says you. What about it? says I. I will
–494.30+
494.31confess to his sins and blush me further. I would misdemean to
–494.31+on entering confessional: 'Bless me, Father, for I have sinned'
–494.31+(would not demean)
–494.31+misdemean: misbehave
494.32rebuke to the libels of snots from the fleshambles, the canalles.
–494.32+Fishamble Street, Dublin
–494.32+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...fleshambles, the...} | {Png: ...fleshambles the...}
–494.32+Grand and Royal Canals, Dublin
–494.32+French canailles: rabbles
494.33Synamite is too good for them. Two overthirties in shore shor-
–494.33+dynamite
494.34ties. She's askapot at Nile Lodge and she's citchincarry at the
–494.34+Danish Askepot: Cinderella (pantomime)
–494.34+escaped
–494.34+Nile river
–494.34+Nile Lodge: a famous Galway house built in 1805 by one of Admiral Nelson's officers at the Battle of the Nile against Napoleon (its design echoes that of a ship's bridge)
–494.34+cash and carry: a system by which one buys goods by paying for them in cash (rather than credit) and taking them away oneself (rather than having them delivered)
–494.34+Rhyming Slang cash and carried: married
494.35left Mrs Hamazum's. Will you warn your old habasund, barking
–494.35+(*A*)
–494.35+Amazon river
–494.35+husband
–494.35+German Hund: dog, hound
494.36at baggermen, his chokefull chewing his chain? Responsif you
–494.36+Dutch baggerman: dredger
–494.36+beggars
–494.36+French répondez, s'il vous plaît: please reply (a request for a reply to an invitation; often abbreviated R.S.V.P.) [495.32]


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