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539.01Chistayas by Roderick's our mostmonolith, after my both ears-
–539.01+Russian chistaya: pure, clean (feminine)
–539.01+VI.B.29.156d (o): 'Roderick'
–539.01+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1166: 'Roderic O'Connor, king of Ireland, honourably received and entertained by the people of Dublin, who do him homage, and receive from him a present of 4,000 oxen' (Roderick (Rory) O'Connor)
–539.01+an 1810 Bible (known as the Ears to Ear Bible) gave for Mark 4:9: 'He that hath ears to ear' instead of 'He that hath ears to hear'
539.02toear and brebreeches buybibles and, minhatton, testify to my
–539.02+(Motif: stuttering)
–539.02+Breeches Bible: the Geneva Bible of 1560, so called because it substitutes 'breeches' for 'aprons' in Genesis 3:7
–539.02+Manhattan, New York City
–539.02+Jews take oath with hat on
539.03unclothed virtue by the longstone erectheion of our allfirst man-
–539.03+The Long Stone: pillar in Dublin marking place where the Danes landed
–539.03+Erechtheion: a temple on the Acropolis
–539.03+erection
–539.03+menhir: a tall upright prehistoric standing stone
–539.03+Dutch mijnheer: gentleman
539.04here. I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Near-
–539.04+VI.B.14.176a (r): 'an Ear Nearwicker'
–539.04+O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages 65: 'a flood broke forth which submerged Eocha and his people, forming the great lake, which from him was called Loch n'Eocha, or Lough Neagh'
–539.04+an Earwicker
539.05wicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favou-
–539.05+Wordsworth
539.06rite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A. G.,
–539.06+Dante, Goethe and Shakespeare
–539.06+Motif: Nation of shopkeepers
–539.06+German Aktien-Gesellschaft: joint stock company
539.07whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to
–539.07+admires
–539.07+Moyers (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
539.08come. Like as my palmer's past policy I have had my best mas-
–539.08+VI.B.29.211b (o): 'like as'
–539.08+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. II: 'Like as a war-worn charger, grazing in peaceful plains, starts at a strain of martial music, pricks up his ears, and snorts, and paws, and kindles at the noise, so did the heroic Peter joy to hear the clangor of the trumpet'
–539.08+palmer: pilgrim
–539.08+card-palmer [221.13]
–539.08+E.H. Palmer: translator of the Koran
–539.08+best
–539.08+Henry James: The Lesson of the Master [540.28]
539.09ter's lessons, as the public he knows, and do you know, home-
–539.09+
539.10sters, I honestly think, if I have failed lamentably by accident
–539.10+
539.11benefits though shintoed, spitefired, perplagued and cram-
–539.11+The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (four ominous horse riders that are to be unleashed upon the world in the first stages of the Christian end of time; Revelation 6) have traditionally been identified with Death, Famine, Plague and War
–539.11+Shinto: native Japanese religious system
–539.11+German Tod: death
–539.11+perplexed
–539.11+German Krim-Krieg: Crimean War
539.12krieged, I am doing my dids bits and have made of my prudentials
–539.12+VI.B.29.207i (o): 'do its bit do my bits'
–539.12+Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 288: (of the Liberal Catholic Church) 'Each large division of the service makes its contribution toward the completed edifice; one part lays the foundation, amother... comes along and does its bit' [536.08] [552.07] [552.35]
–539.12+dead best
–539.12+prudential: prudent maxim
–539.12+Prudential Assurance Company
–539.12+credentials
539.13good. I have been told I own stolemines or something of that
–539.13+German Stollen: in mining, tunnel
–539.13+coalmines
–539.13+goldmines
539.14sorth in the sooth of Spainien. Hohohoho! Have I said ogso how
–539.14+German Spanien: Spain
–539.14+Siegfried's forging song: 'Hoho! Hoho!'
–539.14+Danish også: also, as well
539.15I abhor myself vastly (truth to tell) and do repent to my nether-
–539.15+Job 42:6: 'Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes'
–539.15+VI.B.2.043d (r): 'truth to tell' [556.16]
539.16heart of suntry clothing? The amusin part is, I will say, hotel-
–539.16+sundry
–539.16+Sunday closing (of shops)
–539.16+Santry: district of Dublin
–539.16+VI.B.5.017g (r): 'The amusing part is'
539.17men, that since I, over the deep drowner Athacleeath to seek
–539.17+VI.B.29.046b (o): 'Over the deep water Dublin to seek Again Ireland Shamed in mind' ('Dublin to seek' replaces a cancelled 'Ireland to seek')
–539.17+Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 70: (of Aulaf, King of Dublin) 'Aulaf was defeated in the terrific struggle at Brunanburg, and fled "O'er the deep water Dublin to seek Again Ireland Shamed in mind"' (quoting from a translation of the Old English poem 'The Battle of Brunanburg')
–539.17+Motif: Dear Dirty Dublin
–539.17+VI.B.29.083c (o): 'Ath Cleeath'
–539.17+Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 7: 'in 945 Blacaire once more retook Dublin, only to be defeated and slain the following year by Congalac in the great battle of Ath Cliath'
–539.17+Irish Áth Cliath: Hurdle Ford (the Irish name of Dublin)
539.18again Irrlanding, shamed in mind, with three plunges of my
–539.18+German irre: crazy, insane
–539.18+German Irland: Ireland
–539.18+a landing
539.19ruddertail, yet not a bottlenim, vanced imperial standard by
–539.19+Vance (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–539.19+advanced
–539.19+VI.B.29.157f (o): 'Imperial Standard hoisted'
–539.19+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1801: 'Imperial standard hoisted on Dublin Castle'
539.20weaponright and platzed mine residenze, taking bourd and
–539.20+VI.B.29.200d (o): 'wappenrecht'
–539.20+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book IV, ch. X: 'Killian Van Rensellaer's taking possession of Bearn Island by wapen recht'
–539.20+Dutch wapenrecht: rule of physical force, club-law (literally 'weaponright')
–539.20+German platzt: bursts
–539.20+German Residenz-Platz: capital square
–539.20+German meine Residenz: my residence, my mansion
–539.20+Archaic bourd: jest
–539.20+VI.B.29.056g (o): 'board'
–539.20+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351d: 'a new government for the entire District, consisting of a governor, a secretary, a board of public works, a board of health and a council'
–539.20+board and lodging
–539.20+Dutch boer en burger: farmer and citizen
–539.20+bag and baggage
539.21burgage under starrymisty and ran and operated my brixtol selec-
–539.21+burgage: tenure whereby lands were held by yearly rent
–539.21+Starémesto: Old Town, Prague
–539.21+VI.B.25.157k (r): 'ran a selection'
–539.21+VI.B.29.056e (o): 'operated'
–539.21+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 351d: 'the factories in the District which were operated under private ownership'
–539.21+in 1172, Henry II granted the city of Dublin as a colony to the citizens of Bristol, with the same liberties and charters they were entitled to in Bristol (this led to many Bristolians emigrating to Dublin)
539.22tion here at thollstall, for mean straits male with evorage fimmel,
–539.22+Tholsel, Dublin (old exchange building; Lord-Mayor's House until the beginning of the 19th century)
–539.22+Menai Strait
–539.22+Arthur Morrison: Tales of Mean Streets, 1894 (scattered tales and sketches of low life in London; Joyce had this book in Trieste)
–539.22+main
–539.22+man in the street
–539.22+Battle of the Bridge of Evora, 1177 (where Armoricus (Amory) Tristram fought the Danes to conquer Howth Head)
–539.22+average female
–539.22+German Fimmel: sledgehammer; craze
539.23in commune soccage among strange and enemy, among these
–539.23+VI.B.29.108a (k): 'commune'
–539.23+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 816b: 'the communes of 1793 and 1871'
–539.23+common
–539.23+soccage: socage, tenure of land by determinate services other than knight service
–539.23+Latin hostis: stranger; public enemy
539.24plotlets, in Poplinstown, alore Fort Dunlip, then-on-sea, hole
–539.24+VI.B.29.040b (o): 'plotlet'
–539.24+VI.B.29.079b (o): 'Poplin'
–539.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 621b: 'Dublin poplins... keep their reputation'
–539.24+French alors: then, at that time
–539.24+Fort Dunlop: the latest Dunlop car tyre model of the late 1920s (advertised in Irish Statesman, which Joyce read, from 1928)
–539.24+Dunlop car tyre works at Fort Dunlop, near Birmingham
–539.24+VI.B.29.057c (o): 'a mudhole almost Equal to the great serbonian bog' (first three words not crayoned)
–539.24+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 352b: 'For many years such characterizations as... "A Mudhole almost Equal to the Great Serbonian Bog" were common' (referring to Milton: Paradise Lost II.592: 'Serbonian Bog', Milton's name for L. Serbonis, a marshy tract in Lower Egypt)
539.25of Serbonian bog, now city of magnificent distances, good-
–539.25+VI.B.29.057b (o): 'city of magnificent distances'
–539.25+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 352b: 'For many years such characterizations as... "City of Magnificent Distances"... were common'
–539.25+VI.B.29.096i (k): 'good & walled'
–539.25+W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 231: 'In 1535... Newcastle maintained a castle and garrison, and was reckoned among the "good and walled towns" of the county'
539.26walldabout, with talus and counterscarp and pale of palisades,
–539.26+VI.B.29.188b (o): 'wall about'
–539.26+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. IV: 'the rich winding cove of the Wallabout'
–539.26+Wallabout Bay, New York City
–539.26+VI.B.29.105f-g (k): 'talus & counterskarp counterskarp (place de la Contrecarppe)'
–539.26+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 804c: 'Since 1840 Paris has been completely surrounded by a wall... which, with its talus, is encircled by a broad and deep ditch... a deep dry ditch (escarp, but not counterscarp revetted)'
–539.26+talus: the sloping side of a fortification earthwork
–539.26+counterscarp: the outer wall of a fortification ditch supporting a covered way
–539.26+VI.B.29.211h (o): 'pale'
–539.26+Anglo-Irish The Pale: the English-controlled part (around Dublin) of late medieval Ireland; the area around Dublin, even afterwards
–539.26+VI.B.29.211g (o): 'palisade'
–539.26+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. VII: (of Peter Stuyvesant) 'He fortified the city, too, with pickets and palisadoes'
539.27upon martiell siegewin, with Abbot Warre to blesse, on yon
–539.27+martial: pertaining to war
–539.27+Marshalsea Prison, Dublin
–539.27+siege
–539.27+German siegen: to win, to conquer
–539.27+Abbot (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–539.27+abbatoir
–539.27+Warren (Cluster: Lord-Mayors of Dublin)
–539.27+French blessé: wounded
539.28slauchterday of cleantarriffs, in that year which I have called
–539.28+Battle of Clontarf, 1014 (Brian Boru against the Vikings)
–539.28+Latin Annus mirabilis: Year of wonders
539.29myriabellous, and overdrave these marken (the soord on Whence-
–539.29+Danish overdreven: exaggerated
–539.29+German Marken: borderland, march (especially German die Marken Brandenburg: the Brandenburg Marches) [.30]
–539.29+German marken: to set a boundary
–539.29+sword of
–539.29+king Wenceslaus I built the first walls of Prague
539.30hislaws was mine and mine the prusshing stock of Allbrecht
–539.30+Prussian
–539.30+German Stock: staff
–539.30+Albert I ('the Bear'): Margrave of Brandenburg, founded Berlin
539.31the Bearn), under patroonshaap of our good kingsinnturns,
–539.31+VI.B.29.016a ( ): 'bern'
–539.31+Bern, Switzerland
–539.31+VI.B.29.190j (o): 'patroonship oon'
–539.31+Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. IX: 'magnificent dreams of foreign conquest and great patroonships in the wilderness'
–539.31+Dutch patroon: patron, master, employer
–539.31+Dutch patroonschap: patronage
–539.31+VI.B.29.199b (o): 'schaap'
–539.31+Dutch schaap: sheep
–539.31+Dutch aap: ape, monkey
–539.31+King's Inns Ward, Dublin
–539.31+Kensington, London
539.32T. R. H. Urban First and Champaign Chollyman and Hungry
–539.32+Their Royal Highnesses
–539.32+Pope Urban
–539.32+Champagne Charlie: nickname of Charles Hardwick, friend of Edward VII
–539.32+Alfred Lee: song Champagne Charlie (19th century music hall song)
–539.32+Charlie Chaplin
–539.32+Charlemagne
–539.32+the Han dynasty defeated the Huns and drove them westward towards Europe [.33]
–539.32+Danish hun: she
539.33the Loaved and Hangry the Hathed, here where my tenenure of
–539.33+loathed
–539.33+loved
–539.33+Danish han: he
–539.33+Henry the Eighth
–539.33+hated
–539.33+VI.B.29.157a (o): 'tenenure'
–539.33+tenure
–539.33+Terenure: district of Dublin
539.34office and my toils of domestication first began, with weight of
–539.34+
539.35woman my skat and skuld but Flukie of the Ravens as my sure
–539.35+VI.B.29.045a (o): 'skatt'
–539.35+Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 20: 'in one of his viking expeditions Olaf took Dublin, and was made king of it... he "exacted rent (scatt) from the Irish"'
–539.35+Danish skat: taxes, treasure
–539.35+Danish skuld: debt, guilt
–539.35+VI.B.29.043h (o): 'Floki of the Ravens Flukey ——' (long dash dittos 'of the Ravens')
–539.35+Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin lvi: 'Floki... brought with him three ravens. The first being let go came back to the ship, also the second, but the third flew from the prow without returning, and Floki and his company following in the same direction they found the land... he named the island "Iceland"... the land discovered by Raven Floki, "or Floki of the ravens"'
539.36piloter, famine with Englisch sweat and oppedemics, the two-
–539.36+German Englisch: English
–539.36+in 1528 Dublin visited by a pestilential sickness, called the English sweat (first appeared in Ireland in 1491)
–539.36+Latin oppidum: town
–539.36+epidemics
–539.36+VI.B.29.156a (o): 'Two-toothed locust worms'
–539.36+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 897: 'Ireland visited with a plague of strange worms, having two teeth, which devoured everything green in the land; supposed to have been locusts'


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