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517.01    — Truly. That I may never!
–517.01+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.01+VI.B.14.219l (r): 'Truly *V*'
517.02    — Did one scum then in the auradrama, the deff, after some
–517.02+deaf [.03]
–517.02+Mutt and Jeff: American comic-strip characters [.03] [.13]
517.03clever play in the mud, mention to the other undesirable, a
–517.03+mute [.02]
–517.03+Adam
517.04dumm, during diverse intentional instants, that upon the resume
–517.04+German dumm: stupid
–517.04+dumb
517.05after the angerus, how for his deal he was a pigheaded Swede and
–517.05+anger
–517.05+prayer Angelus
–517.05+Archaic deal: part
–517.05+Swede: type of turnip [082.03]
517.06to wend himself to a medicis?
–517.06+Obsolete wend: to turn, direct, betake (oneself)
–517.06+America
–517.06+Medici family
–517.06+Latin medicus: physician
517.07    — To be sore he did, the huggornut! Only it was turnip-
–517.07+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.07+Italian sorridi: (you) smile
–517.07+sure
–517.07+Huguenots were enemies of the Medicis
–517.07+hog
–517.07+Juggernaut
–517.07+Italian cornuto: horned
–517.07+VI.B.1.092b (r): 'why did she call you carroty? It was turnipheaded'
–517.07+turnip-headed dunce (he called him) [.05]
517.08hudded dunce, I beg your pardon, and he would jokes bowlder-
–517.08+just bowdlerise
517.09blow the betholder with his black masket off the bawling green.
–517.09+beholder
–517.09+bat-holder
–517.09+black market
–517.09+musket
–517.09+bowling green
–517.09+Nora's mother (and, for some time, Nora too) lived at 8 Bowling Green, Galway
517.10    — Sublime was the warning!
–517.10+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Sublime Was the Warning [air: The Black Joke] [.08-.09]
517.11    — The author, in fact, was mardred.
–517.11+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.11+VI.B.30.006c (g): 'mordred'
–517.11+Mordred: King Arthur's nephew or illegitimate son, who brought about King Arthur's downfall and his death (referred to numerous times in Jones: King Arthur in History and Legend, but always as Modred)
–517.11+J.C. Mardrus translated the Koran and the Arabian Nights into French (Mardrus: Le Koran)
–517.11+murdered
–517.11+Czech Slang mrd-: fuck-
517.12    — Did he, the first spikesman, do anything to him, the last
–517.12+Spike Island, Cork Harbour
517.13spokesman, when, after heaving some more smutt and chaff
–517.13+Motif: some/more
–517.13+Mutt and Jeff: American comic-strip characters [.02-.03]
517.14between them, they rolled togutter into the ditch together?
–517.14+together
517.15Black Pig's Dyke?
–517.15+Black Pig's Dyke: ancient Irish wall of defence, southern border of Ulidia (Ulster), running from sea to sea
–517.15+according to Irish legend, Fenians will return to The Valley of the Black Pig in Connacht to drive out the foreigners
517.16    — No, he had his teeth in the back of his head.
–517.16+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.16+(could not speak because biting opponent's head)
–517.16+eyes
517.17    — Did Box then try to shine his puss?
–517.17+Motif: Box/Cox [.18]
–517.17+Shaun the Post (Motif: Shem/Shaun, Motif: pen/post) [.18]
–517.17+Anglo-Irish puss: mouth (pejorative)
517.18    — No but Cox did to shin the punman.
–517.18+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.18+Cox [.17]
–517.18+the Hebrew letter shin (SH) historically meant 'tooth' [.16]
–517.18+Shem the Penman [.17]
517.19    — The worsted crying that if never he looked on Leaverhol-
–517.19+worst, best [.20]
–517.19+phrase hue and cry: outcry, public cry of alarm or pursuit or disapproval (but given that 'hue' also means 'colour', Motif: ear/eye) [.20]
–517.19+W.H. Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme: 19th-20th century English industrialist whose first major product was Sunlight Soap [.20]
517.20ma's again and the bester huing that he might ever save sunlife?
–517.20+Slang bester: swindler
–517.20+daylight saving schemes (first widely introduced during World War I) are aimed at saving energy by maximising sunlight
–517.20+Sunlight Soap: the world's first packaged and branded laundry and household soap, introduced in 1884 [.19]
517.21    — Trulytruly Asbestos he ever. And sowasso I never.
–517.21+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.21+as best as
–517.21+worst
517.22    — That forte carlysle touch breaking the campdens pianoback.
–517.22+Italian forte: loud, strong
–517.22+forty
–517.22+Thomas Carlyle
–517.22+Fort Carlisle and Fort Camden, Cork Harbour
–517.22+phrase the straw that broke the camel's back: the latest in a series of unpleasant events that makes the entire situation unbearable
–517.22+pianoforte
517.23    — Pansh!
–517.23+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.23+German panschen: to mix up, to adulterate, to meddle
517.24    — Are you of my meaning that would be going on to about
–517.24+(do you agree it is about 12:30 o'clock, by you watch?; Motif: What is the time?) [.24-.26]
–517.24+German bist du meiner Meinung?: do you agree with me? (literally 'are you of my meaning?')
–517.24+Greenwich Mean Time [.25]
–517.24+VI.B.5.084c (r): 'Would that be the 6th Well, It might'
517.25half noon, click o'clock, pip emma, Grinwicker time, by your
–517.25+Colloquial half noon: half past twelve, twelve thirty, 12:30 [.29-.30]
–517.25+six o'clock
–517.25+Slang pip emma: p.m.
–517.25+Greenwich Mean Time [.24]
517.26querqcut quadrant?
–517.26+German quer: diagonal, across
–517.26+Latin quercus: oak
517.27    — You will be asking me and I wish to higgins you wouldn't.
–517.27+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
517.28Would it?
–517.28+
517.29    — Let it be twelve thirty after a somersautch of the tardest!
–517.29+Colloquial half twelve: half past twelve, twelve thirty, 12:30 [.25] [.30]
–517.29+somersault
–517.29+watch
–517.29+French tard: late
–517.29+Spanish tardes: afternoon
517.30    — And it was eleven thirsty too befour in soandsuch, reloy on it!
–517.30+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.30+German Colloquial halb zwölf: half past eleven, eleven thirty, 11:30 (literally 'half twelve') [.25] [.29]
–517.30+Motif: 1132
–517.30+so and such (Motif: So and so)
–517.30+Spanish reloj: watch
517.31    — Tick up on time. Howday you doom? That rising day
–517.31+(measure time; Motif: What is the time?)
–517.31+Fitzball and Wallace: Maritana: song Turn On, Old Time
–517.31+how do you do today, you doom? (Motif: How are you today, my dark/fair sir?)
517.32sinks rosing in a night of nine week's wonder.
–517.32+Latin ros: dew (believed by alchemists to be a powerful solvent)
–517.32+phrase nine days' wonder
517.33    — Amties, marcy buckup! The uneven day of the unleventh
–517.33+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
–517.33+German Amt: office
–517.33+amity
–517.33+empties, please
–517.33+French merci beaucoup: thank you very much
–517.33+World War I armistice was signed at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 [518.19]
517.34month of the unevented year. At mart in mass.
–517.34+Martinmas: Feast of Saint Martin of Tours (11 November; in Italy, celebrated as the feast of cuckolds)
517.35    — A triduum before Our Larry's own day. By which of your
–517.35+triduum: three days, especially of religious observance
–517.35+11 November is three days before Saint Laurence O'Toole's feast day (14 November)
–517.35+song The Night before Larry Was Stretched [519.05]
517.36chronos, my man of four watches, larboard, starboard, dog or dath?
–517.36+Greek chronos: time
–517.36+four watches of the night
–517.36+Wyndham Lewis was told that Joyce always carried four watches and rarely spoke except to ask the time (1921)
–517.36+larboard: port (side)
–517.36+dog watches on ship (four to eight p.m.)
–517.36+Irish dath: colour
–517.36+deathwatch beetle


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