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535.01jackadandyline! Let me never see his waddphez again! And mine
535.01+Slang Jack a dandy: insignificant little fellow
535.01+VI.B.29.198f (o): 'dandelions'
535.01+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. V: 'for the punishment of poverty... the culprit... was hoisted by the waistband, and kept dangling and sprawling between heaven and earth for an hour or two... the little governor chuckled at beholding caitiff vagrants and sturdy beggars thus swinging by the crupper, and cutting antic gambols in the air... he called them his dandelions' [534.36]
535.01+VI.B.29.202f (o): 'let me never see your face again'
535.01+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VI, ch. V: (quoting Peter Stuyvesant, in dismissing the disgraced general Van Poffenburgh) 'In the meantime, let me never see your face again, for I have a horrible antipathy to the countenances of unfortunate great men like yourself'
535.01+Wad Fez river, Morocco
535.01+white face
535.01+white fez (Motif: White hat) [.22] [.26-.27]
535.01+Colloquial phiz: countenance, face, expression
535.02it was, Barktholed von Hunarig, Soesown of Furrows (hour-
535.02+Bartholomew Vanhomrigh (father of Swift's Vanessa; Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
535.02+German von: of
535.02+Hungary
535.02+Shusan of Persia: capital of king Ahasuerus in Esther (Hebrew Parras: Persia)
535.02+Man of Sorrows: an epithet of Christ as the Messiah (from Isaiah 53:3)
535.02+son
535.02+German ursprünglich: original
535.03springlike his joussture, immitiate my chry! as urs now, so yous
535.03+Marcel Jousse studied the language of gesture and occasionally (e.g. Le Style Oral, 107) compared it to the unwinding of a clock's spring (Joyce attended one of his lecture-plays, probably in 1928)
535.03+Latin immitis: harsh
535.03+imitate my cry
535.03+Thomas à Kempis: The Imitation of Christ
535.03+initiate
535.03+us
535.04then!), when to our lot it fell on my poplar Sexsex, my Sexen-
535.04+sexcentenary
535.05centaurnary, whenby Gate of Hal, before his hostel of the Wodin
535.05+centaur
535.05+when by
535.05+Gates of Hell (Jigoku Mon): a Japanese classic
535.05+Porte de Hal, Brussels
535.05+Valhalla: in Norse mythology, the magnificent hall in which chosen slain heroes spend their glorious afterlife
535.05+VI.B.29.062g (o): 'Wodin Man'
535.05+Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 53: (of 18th century Dublin) 'Have Dublin children ever heard of the Wooden Man who stood in Essex Street in these olden times? He was made of oak, and one made a bitter complaint (in print) that passers-by sometimes took a piece off his back to light their fires' [518.24]
535.05+Odin: Wotan
535.06Man, I hestened to freeholdit op to his Mam his Maman, Majus-
535.06+Danish hest: horse
535.06+Hesten: statue in Copenhagen
535.06+hastened
535.06+VI.B.29.161f (o): === VI.B.29.155b (o): 'freeholded'
535.06+VI.B.29.151d (o): 'freehold'
535.06+Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 162: 'Ground rents are practically unknown in York, the land being almost without exception freehold'
535.06+Legalese freehold: a tenure for life on an estate or office
535.06+hold it
535.06+Dutch op: on, up
535.06+up
535.06+French maman: mother
535.06+majuscule: capital letter
535.06+Latin majusculus: somewhat larger
535.07cules, His Magnus Maggerstick, first city's leasekuays of this
535.07+Latin magnus: big, great
535.07+majesty
535.07+City Quay, Dublin
535.07+it is a well-known custom for special visitors to be given the keys to the city by the mayor
535.07+VI.B.29.155c (o): 'lease Kneys'
535.07+VI.B.29.161e (o): 'leasekeys'
535.07+Legalese lease: a contract for conveying real estate in return for rent
535.07+leastways
535.08Nova Tara, our most noble, when hrossbucked on his pricelist
535.08+Latin nova terra: new earth
535.08+Tara: ancient capital of Ireland
535.08+VI.B.29.156b (o): 'our most noble'
535.08+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 962: 'About this time, Edgar, king of England, is said to have subdued part of Ireland, and particularly the most noble city of Dublin'
535.08+VI.B.29.076b (o): 'Horse in fanlight'
535.08+throughout the 19th and early 20th century, having a white horse statuette (a symbol of King William III of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne) in the fan-light above one's door was common in Dublin, initially among loyalists, but later also among those with no political affiliation (Motif: white horse) [.08-.10]
535.08+horsebacked
535.08+German Ross: steed
535.08+Ross (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
535.08+priceless
535.09charger, Pferdinamd Allibuster (yeddonot need light oar till
535.09+German Pferd: horse
535.09+Ferdinand
535.09+alabaster is white (Motif: white horse)
535.09+song The Midnight Son: 'The Midnight Son, the Midnight Son, You needn't go trotting to Norway, You'll find him in every doorway Down the strand, for that's the land Of the Midnight Son' (Edwardian music hall song)
535.09+you do not
535.09+VI.B.29.006a (o): 'Yedo'
535.09+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1047d: (of Tokyo) 'formerly called Yedo'
535.09+oar, tiller (boat)
535.09+Archaic o'er: over
535.10Noreway for you fanned one o'er every doorway) with my all-
535.10+fan-light: a fan-shaped window over a door (especially the front door) [.08-.09]
535.10+Archaic o'er: over
535.10+all bums greet him
535.10+album
535.11bum's greethims through this whole of my promises, handshakey
535.11+greetings
535.11+premises
535.11+HCE (Motif: HCE)
535.11+handshake
535.11+Shakespeare
535.12congrandyoulikethems, ecclesency.
535.12+congratulations, excellency
535.12+Can Grande, to whom Dante reputedly addressed a letter dealing with the four levels of Dante: The Divine Comedy
535.12+Eccles Street, Dublin, where Bloom lived in Joyce: Ulysses
535.12+Sir John Eccles (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
535.13     Whosaw the jackery dares at handgripper thisa breast? Dose
535.13+[[Speaker: Yawn as *E*]]
535.13+whoso
535.13+nursery rhyme See Saw, Margery Daw
535.13+Jack the Ripper
535.13+French Jacquerie: rioting peasants (especially 14th century)
535.13+Swedish att angripa: to attack
535.13+Italian presto: early, soon, quickly
535.13+Danish dødmager ganger: death-lean steed
535.13+those
535.14makkers ginger. Some one we was with us all fours. Adversarian!
535.14+Dutch makkers: friends, comrades
535.14+Dutch ginder: over there, yonder
535.14+Dutch wij zijn met ons vieren: there are four of us (literally 'we are with us four'; Motif: The four of them)
535.14+adversaria: a commonplace book
535.14+I Peter 5:8: 'your adversary the devil'
535.15The spiking Duyvil! First liar in Londsend! Wulv! See you scar-
535.15+VI.B.29.185h (o): 'spiking devil'
535.15+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. II: 'As to the honest burghers of Communipaw... I am even told that many among them do verily believe that Holland, of which they have heard so much from tradition, is situated somewhere on Long Island; that Spiking-devil and the Narrows are the two ends of the world; that the country is still under the dominion of their High Mightinesses, and that the city of New York still goes by the name of Nieuw Amsterdam'
535.15+speaking
535.15+Spuyten Duyvil: area in New York City
535.15+Dutch duivel: devil
535.15+London
535.15+Land's End, Cornwall (the most westerly point of mainland England)
535.15+Danish ulv: wolf
535.15+yon
535.15+VI.B.29.ffvc (o): 'scargore'
535.15+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 934c: 'The coast is here thickly fringed with islands (the skärgård)'
535.16gore on that skeepsbrow! And those meisies! Sulken taarts! Man
535.16+Gore (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
535.16+Motif: goat/sheep
535.16+VI.B.29.ffve (o): 'skeepsbro'
535.16+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'the broad shipping quay (Skeppsbro)'
535.16+Dutch meisjes: girls
535.16+German Meise: titmouse
535.16+silken
535.16+Dutch zulk een taart: such a cake, such a tart
535.16+Ibsen: other works: Til Min Ven Revolutions-Taleren: (begins) 'De siger, jeg er bleven "konservativ"' (Norwegian To My Friend the Revolutionary Speaker: 'You say I have become "conservative"') [.19]
535.17sicker at I ere bluffet konservative? Shucks! Such ratshause bugs-
535.17+bluff it
535.17+VI.B.10.117f (r): 'shucks! (rot)'
535.17+American Slang shucks (exclamation of embarrassment, regret, etc.)
535.17+VI.B.24.225i (r): 'RATHOUSE'
535.17+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the old Rathaus'
535.17+German Rathaus: city hall
535.17+house
535.17+business
535.17+Ibsen: all plays: The Master Builder (in Norwegian, Bygmester Solness: Master Builder Solness) [.19]
535.18mess so I cannot barely conceive of! Lowest basemeant in hystry!
535.18+VI.B.29.150b (o): 'basement basemeant'
535.18+Greek hystera: womb
535.18+history
535.19Ibscenest nansence! Noksagt! Per Peeler and Pawr! The broker-
535.19+Ibsen [.17]
535.19+obscenest nonsense
535.19+Danish noksagt: enough said
535.19+Nagasaki, Japan
535.19+Nansen: Norwegian explorer
535.19+Ibsen: all plays: Peer Gynt
535.19+Anglo-Irish peeler: policeman
535.19+Motif: Paul/Peter
535.19+Peter Paul McSwiney (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
535.19+broken-hearted
535.20heartened shugon! Hole affair is rotten muckswinish porcupig's
535.20+VI.B.29.006b (o): 'shogun'
535.20+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1048b: 'the castle of Yedo, formerly the residence of the shōguns' (de-facto rulers of Japan until 1868)
535.20+Irish siogán: ant
535.20+whole
535.20+Irish muc: pig
535.20+VI.B.29.201f (o): 'porcupig'
535.20+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. IX: (quoting the Ballad of Dragon of Wantley about General Van Poffenburgh) 'Had you but seen him in this dress, How fierce he looked and how big, You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig'
535.21draff. Enouch!
535.21+draff: refuse, dregs, swill
535.21+Welsh proverb Draff is sufficient for pigs
535.21+enough
535.21+Enoch: first city, built by Cain (Genesis 4:17)
535.22    — Is that yu, Whitehed?
535.22+[[Speaker: Matthew]]
535.22+Chinese yü: fish
535.22+you
535.22+Whitehead: town, County Antrim
535.22+Motif: White hat [.26-.27]
535.22+Danish hed: hot
535.23    — Have you headnoise now?
535.23+[[Speaker: Mark]]
535.23+VI.B.2.110f (r): 'headnoise'
535.24    — Give us your mespilt reception, will yous?
535.24+[[Speaker: Luke]]
535.24+Mespil Road, Dublin
535.24+misspelt
535.25    — Pass the fish for Christ's sake!
535.25+[[Speaker: John]]
535.25+Motif: So pass the fish for Christ sake, Amen
535.25+the fish is an ancient symbol of Christ (from Greek 'Iesous CHristos. THeou Yios, Soter': 'Jesus Christ, God's Son, Saviour' and Greek ichthys: fish)
535.26    — Old Whitehowth he is speaking again. Ope Eustace tube!
535.26+{{Synopsis: III.3.3B.C: [535.26-540.12]: he identifies himself, poor Haveth Childers Everywhere — continuing his self-defence, he uses every possible argument}}
535.26+[[Speaker: Yawn as *E*]]
535.26+Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde 32: (dead Oscar Wilde speaking) 'Oscar Wilde is speaking'
535.26+the White family were the owners of Corr Castle in Sutton (just west of Howth Head) before the reign of James I
535.26+Motif: White hat [.22] [.27]
535.26+(open ears)
535.26+Robert Eustace: sheriff of Dublin, 1608-9
535.26+Eustachian tube: passage from pharynx to ear
535.27Pity poor whiteoath! Dear gone mummeries, goby! Tell the
535.27+Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde 5: (dead Oscar Wilde speaking) 'Pity Oscar Wilde' [.28-.29] [.34]
535.27+Motif: White hat [.22] [.26]
535.27+memories
535.27+goodbye
535.28woyld I have lived true thousand hells. Pity, please, lady, for
535.28+world
535.28+Wilde (Oscar Wilde)
535.28+through
535.28+Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde: (dead Oscar Wilde speaking) 'dear lady' (appears numerous times)
535.29poor O.W. in this profundust snobbing I have caught. Nine dirty
535.29+(initials of both Oscar Wilde and Old Whitehowth) [.26]
535.29+German oh weh!: woe!, alas! (exclamation of grief)
535.29+Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (Latin 'Out of the Depths')
535.29+profoundest
535.29+snubbing
535.29+J.C. Mangan: The Nameless One (poem): 'And lives he still, then? Yes! Old and hoary At thirty-nine, from despair and woe' (Motif: 39) [534.12]
535.30years mine age, hairs hoar, mummery failend, snowdrift to my
535.30+(white)
535.30+memory failing
535.31ellpow, deff as Adder. I askt you, dear lady, to judge on my tree
535.31+phrase deaf as an adder
535.31+Psalms 58:4: 'the deaf adder'
535.31+ask
535.31+German Ast: branch
535.31+Matthew 7:20: 'By their fruits ye shall know them'
535.32by our fruits. I gave you of the tree. I gave two smells, three eats.
535.32+VI.B.2.014k (g): 'give him of the tree'
535.32+Foote: Bible Romances 38: Eve and the Apple: (quoting Kalisch about the first couple according to Persian mythology) 'an evil demon (Dev)... appeared unexpectedly in the form of a serpent, and gave them the fruit of a wonderful tree'
535.32+Genesis 3:12: (Adam of Eve) 'she gave me of the tree, and I did eat'
535.32+Motif: 2&3
535.33My freeandies, my celeberrimates: my happy bossoms, my all-
535.33+friends
535.33+French friandise: delicacy, titbit
535.33+Latin celeberrimus: most honoured
535.33+blossoms
535.34falling fruits of my boom. Pity poor Haveth Childers Every-
535.34+bottom
535.34+Dutch boom: tree
535.34+bum
535.34+womb
535.34+HCE (Motif: HCE)
535.34+Hugh Culling Eardly (H.C.E.) Childers: 19th century British politician, nicknamed Here Comes Everybody (for his girth) [032.18]
535.34+Erskine Childers: 19th-20th century Anglo-Irish writer, who smuggled guns from Germany to Howth Head in 1914 for the Irish nationalist cause, and was executed in 1922 during the Irish Civil War (cousin of H.C.E Childers)
535.34+Anglo-Irish childer: children
535.35where with Mudder!
535.35+Dublin Pronunciation mudder: mother
535.36     That was Communicator, a former colonel. A disincarnated
535.36+[[Speaker: Yawn]]
535.36+Sir Oliver Lodge: Raymond (in which appear 'a colonel' (p.255), 'the Communicator' (p.360), and a medium called Miss Alta Piper and referred to as 'A.L.P.') [533.24]


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