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608.01     It is a mere mienerism of this vague of visibilities, mark you,
–608.01+{{Synopsis: IV.1.3.B: [608.01-608.11]: looks can be deceiving — another reminder of the incident in the park}}
–608.01+mannerism
–608.01+German meiner: mine (possessive)
–608.01+French vague: wave
–608.01+possibilities
–608.01+VI.B.41.134f (o): 'mark you'
608.02as accorded to by moisturologist of the Brehons Assorceration for
–608.02+most urologists
–608.02+meteorologist
–608.02+moisture
–608.02+British Association for the Advancement of Science: a society founded in 1831 for the promotion of scientific progress [.15]
–608.02+Anglo-Irish brehon: judge in early medieval Ireland, under the indigenous Irish legal system (called Brehon Law)
–608.02+sorcery
608.03the advauncement of scayence because, my dear, mentioning of
–608.03+Obsolete avauntment: boasting
–608.03+VI.B.41.134h (o): 'my dear,'
–608.03+VI.B.41.135c (b): 'mention under the breath'
608.04it under the breath, as in pure (what bunkum!) essenesse, there
–608.04+phrase under one's breath: (speaking) very quietly, so as not to be overheard
–608.04+VI.B.41.135d (o): 'pure (what bunkum) art'
–608.04+Colloquial bunkum: empty talk, nonsense
–608.04+S and S (Shem and Shaun; Motif: Shem/Shaun)
–608.04+essence
608.05have been disselving forenenst you just the draeper, the two
–608.05+dissolving
–608.05+German dieselbe: the same (feminine)
–608.05+(not self)
–608.05+Anglo-Irish forenenst: in front of, facing, opposite
–608.05+VI.B.41.134d (o): 'ihr draeper — — assisters drawper's assisters' (dashes ditto 'ihr draeper'; only first two and last two words crayoned)
–608.05+*E*, *IJ* and *VYC* (Motif: 2&3) [.07]
–608.05+draper: a dealer in cloth (popularly considered a thankless occupation for a man, having to deal with an almost exclusively female clientele)
–608.05+Drapier: an epithet of Swift (in reference to the persona he adopted in Swift: Drapier's Letters)
–608.05+Swedish dräpa: to kill (previously spelled 'dræpa')
608.06drawpers assisters and the three droopers assessors confraterni-
–608.06+draper's assistants [529.12]
–608.06+pair of drawers
–608.06+sisters
–608.06+VI.B.41.134g (o): 'droopers'
–608.06+troopers: cavalry soldiers
–608.06+draper's
–608.06+assessor: a skilled assistant (primarily to a judge)
–608.06+confraternisation: recognition of each other as (figurative) brothers
608.07tisers. Who are, of course, Uncle Arth, your two cozes from
–608.07+VI.B.41.138b (o): 'is, of course,'
–608.07+VI.B.41.133a (o): 'Uncle Arth'
–608.07+*E*, *IJ* and *VYC* (Motif: 2&3) [.05]
–608.07+uncle, cousin, niece, family (Motif: niece)
–608.07+Welsh arth: a bear (Motif: bear/bull) [.09]
–608.07+Arthur
–608.07+Colloquial coz: cousin; friend
608.08Niece and (kunject a bit now!) our own familiars, Billyhealy, Bally-
–608.08+Nice: city, France
–608.08+VI.B.41.133d (o): 'to project'
–608.08+Obsolete conject: to conjecture, guess
–608.08+VI.B.41.133h (o): 'ballyhoo'
–608.08+Colloquial ballyhoo: extravagant advertising or praise, bombastic nonsense
–608.08+Anglo-Irish ballyhooly: pandemonium, fighting, trouble (from the village of Ballyhooly, County Cork, notorious for faction fighting)
608.09hooly and Bullyhowley, surprised in an indecorous position by
–608.09+bull [.07]
–608.09+VI.B.41.133c (o): 'surprise indecorous position'
608.10the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society for bled-
–608.10+Motif: alliteration (s)
–608.10+*S*
–608.10+George Sigerson: 19th-20th century Dublin physician and Irish cultural revivalist (Joyce: Letters II.51: letter 01/09/04 to Nora Barnacle: 'I hope you haven't that horrible pain this morning. Go out and see old Sigerson and get him to prescribe for you')
–608.10+VI.B.41.139a (b): 'sphygmomanometer'
–608.10+sphygmomanometer: instrument for measuring blood pressure
–608.10+blood pressure
608.11prusshers.
–608.11+
608.12     Knightsmore. Haventyne?
–608.12+{{Synopsis: IV.1.3.C: [608.12-608.36]: as we are passing from sleep to wakefulness, the dream begins to fade — only symbolic sigla of the major characters remain}}
–608.12+nightmare, haven't I (had one)?
–608.12+German nichts mehr: nothing more
–608.12+Obsolete aventine: a secure position (from the name of one of the seven hills of Rome)
608.13     Ha ha!
–608.13+
608.14     This Mister Ireland? And a live?
–608.14+VI.B.41.134a (o): 'Mr Ireland'
–608.14+Anna Livia (*A*)
–608.14+alive [.15]
608.15     Ay, ay. Aye, aye, baas.
–608.15+[[Speaker: Matthew]]
–608.15+Motif: Ay, ay!
–608.15+Nautical phrase aye, aye, sir! (affirmation of an order)
–608.15+VI.B.41.134e (o): 'B A A S'
–608.15+B.A.A.S.: British Association for the Advancement of Science [.02]
–608.15+Dutch baas: boss, master
–608.15+Irish bás: death [.14]
608.16     The cry of Stena chills the vitals of slumbring off the motther
–608.16+cry [558.32] [559.30]
–608.16+according to legend, Lia Fáil, a large stone on the Hill of Tara, cried out when a rightful high king touched it [558.34]
–608.16+Danish sten: stone (Motif: tree/stone) [.18]
–608.16+Sanskrit stena: thief [021.23]
–608.16+(wakes up)
–608.16+slumbering
–608.16+Archaic bring off: to deliver, rescue
–608.16+mother (*A*)
–608.16+matter
608.17has been pleased into the harms of old salaciters, meassurers
–608.17+placed into the hands of our solicitors
–608.17+salacity: lustfulness, lecherousness
–608.17+Messrs Son and Son (*V* and *C*)
–608.17+measurers
608.18soon and soon, but the voice of Alina gladdens the cockly-
–608.18+Motif: So and so
–608.18+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...Alina...} | {JJA 63:151: ...Alma...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 63:167)
–608.18+Norwegian alm: elm [.16]
–608.18+Italian alma: nourishing, life-giving (feminine)
–608.18+phrase warm the cockles of the heart: make one feel happy or pleased, gladden
608.19hearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching
–608.19+morning
–608.19+(noises of breakfast, as if in Chinese)
–608.19+Slang ching chong: Chinese person, Chinese language (derogatory)
608.20chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing becker-
–608.20+sugar
–608.20+cow milk
–608.20+Becker Bros: Dublin tea-sellers since 1860
608.21brose, the brew with the foochoor in it. Sawyest? Nodt? Nyets,
–608.21+brose: a type of oatmeal porridge (made with water or milk)
–608.21+Slang brew: tea
–608.21+Foochow: city in China, a major port for the tea-trade
–608.21+future (tea leaves are used for fortune-telling) [.26] [.28]
–608.21+Archaic sawest?: did you see?
–608.21+yes? not? yes (Motif: yes/no)
–608.21+nod (in affirmation)
–608.21+Russian net: no (pronounced 'nyet')
608.22I dhink I sawn to remumb or sumbsuch. A kind of a thinglike
–608.22+I think I seem to remember some such
–608.22+Sanskrit dhi: thought, wisdom, understanding
–608.22+(what one sees in the tea leaves)
–608.22+(*E* siglum)
608.23all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic or some kvind
–608.23+three-legged
–608.23+(*A* siglum)
–608.23+probably it resembles
–608.23+pub
–608.23+symbols
–608.23+Danish kvinde: woman
–608.23+kind
608.24then props an acutebacked quadrangle with aslant off ohahn-
–608.24+(*Y* siglum)
–608.24+props a cut-back quadrangle with a slant (cut-back: pruned)
–608.24+perhaps an acute-backed quadrangle with a (side) off
–608.24+a sort of a
–608.24+oh, and then
–608.24+German Hahn: cock, male fowl
608.25thenth a wenchyoumaycuddler, lying with her royalirish upper-
–608.25+hen
–608.25+(*L* siglum) [340.28-.30]
–608.25+Colloquial the what-you-may-call-her (a stand-in for a forgotten word)
–608.25+Dialect wench: young woman; maidservant (Slang promiscuous woman, prostitute)
–608.25+cuddle her
–608.25+Royal Irish Opera House (Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 28: '1837... February. The Theatre in Abbey-street opened, under the title of "Theatre Royal, Irish Opera House, Lower Abbey-street"')
608.26shoes among the theeckleaves. Signs are on of a mere by token
–608.26+Dutch thee: tea (hence, tea leaves) [.21] [.28]
–608.26+thick
–608.26+(what the tea leaves predict)
–608.26+Anglo-Irish phrase signs are on: therefore, consequently, as a result
–608.26+sign, token (near synonyms)
–608.26+Dialect phrase more by token: moreover, still more, the more so
608.27that wills still to be becoming upon this there once a here was
–608.27+there, here (opposites)
–608.27+French terre: earth
–608.27+once a year
608.28world. As the dayeleyves unfolden them. In the wake of the
–608.28+French le jour se lève: the day rises
–608.28+tea leaves [.21] [.26]
–608.28+Archaic unfolden: unfolded
–608.28+black shape (i.e., night)
608.29blackshape, Nattenden Sorte; whenat, hindled firth and hundled
–608.29+White Ship: a ship that sank in the English Channel in 1120, taking with it almost all aboard, including Edward I's son and heir apparent, whose death led to a succession crisis and triggered the civil war known as The Anarchy [387.25]
–608.29+Ibsen: other works: Borte!: 'før natten den sorte' (Norwegian Gone!: 'before night the black')
–608.29+when
–608.29+Danish nat: night
–608.29+Stanley Houghton: Hindle Wakes (a 1912 play, taking place during wakes week in the fictional town of Hindle, Lancashire)
–608.29+Firth of Forth: estuary, Scotland
–608.29+Hurdle Ford (the Irish name of Dublin)
608.30furth, the week of wakes is out and over; as a wick weak woking
–608.30+Motif: alliteration (w)
–608.30+wakes week: traditional holiday period in North England (variable dates in each town, usually in the summer)
–608.30+wick, embers, ashes, fumes, phoenix (according to legend, an old phoenix bird would burn itself to allow a new one to rise from its ashes) [.30-.32]
–608.30+weak, force (opposites)
–608.30+waking
–608.30+Viking
608.31from ennemberable Ashias unto fierce force fuming, temtem
–608.31+innumerable
–608.31+Asias
–608.31+Motif: Fee faw fum
–608.31+Motif: Tom/Tim
608.32tamtam, the Phoenican wakes.
–608.32+Phoenician: from Phoenicia, an ancient maritime civilisation that flourished along the eastern Mediterranean coast in the 3rd to 1st millennia BC
–608.32+song Finnegan's Wake
608.33     Passing. One. We are passing. Two. From sleep we are pass-
–608.33+(almost waking up)
608.34ing. Three. Into the wikeawades warld from sleep we are passing.
–608.34+wide awake
–608.34+world
608.35Four. Come, hours, be ours!
–608.35+
608.36     But still. Ah diar, ah diar! And stay.
–608.36+[[Speaker: Luke]]
–608.36+(but not yet)
–608.36+stay still
–608.36+Motif: Adear, adear!
–608.36+Irish A Dhia!: O God!


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