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623.01loosed in her reflexes, she seem she seen Ericoricori coricome
623.01+lost in her reflection (in the mirror; *IJ*)
623.01+loose, leashed (opposites, applied to dogs) [.02]
623.01+Ivan Pavlov, the 19th-20th century Russian physiologist, is most famous for his research on conditioned reflexes in dogs [.02]
623.01+she seemed she'd seen
623.01+ECH (Motif: HCE)
623.01+Earwicker come home (*E*)
623.01+French cocorico: cock-a-doodle-doo (representing the crow of a cock)
623.01+Italian corsi e ricorsi: flows and reflows, streams and recurrences (a phrase popularly associated with Vico in the context of the recurrence of historical cycles) [481.02]
623.01+comely, handsome (near synonyms)
623.02huntsome with his three poach dogs aleashing him. But you came
623.02+hunt, dogs, leash [622.25] [.01]
623.02+(*VYC*)
623.02+VI.B.47.048b (g): 'poached dogs'
623.02+poached eggs
623.02+coach dog: a dog, most usually a Dalmatian, kept to run alongside a carriage (also, by extension, another name for the Dalmatian breed)
623.03safe through. Enough of that horner corner! And old mutther-
623.03+EHC (Motif: HCE)
623.03+VI.B.47.068a (g): 'horner corner'
623.03+nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner: 'Little Jack Horner, Sat in the corner' (also pantomime)
623.03+VI.B.47.068g (g): 'Mother Goose'
623.03+pantomime Mother Goose (as well as the imaginary author of several nursery rhyme collections)
623.03+Mother Gossip: a female personification of gossip [213.29] [316.11-.12]
623.03+Colloquial mutt: mongrel dog
623.04goosip! We might call on the Old Lord, what do you say? There's
623.04+VI.C.12.182g (b): === VI.B.14.183i ( ): 'old lord'
623.04+Gwynn: Ulster 39: (of the town of Milford) 'I remember when every soul in it and for ten miles round was in the grip of a really tyrannical landlord, whose murder, when it ultimately came, was indeed an act of what Bacon calls "wild justice". Much of the improvement visible here is due to the able and courageous man who succeeded the "old lord"'
623.04+Lord of Howth (on Howth Head; Armoricus (Amory) Tristram was the first)
623.05something tells me. He is a fine sport. Like the score and a moighty
623.05+VI.B.47.048e (r): 'Something tells me'
623.05+score and eight: twenty-eight (Motif: 28-29; from Armoricus (Amory) Tristram, the first Lord of Howth, to William St. Lawrence, the fourth Earl of Howth (who died without a male heir in 1909, thus ending the line), there were 26 lords and barons and earls of Howth)
623.05+Archaic moiety: half, one of two not necessarily equal parts (often the smaller one)
623.05+mighty
623.06went before him. And a proper old promnentory. His door
623.06+Motif: old/new [.07]
623.06+prominent Tory
623.06+Howth Head is a promontory
623.06+according to legend, the door of Howth Castle (on Howth Head) is traditionally left open at mealtime ever since Grace O'Malley kidnapped the baron's heir (a descendant of Armoricus (Amory) Tristram) in revenge for being refused admission during dinner [021.05] [137.19] [.11] [.14]
623.07always open. For a newera's day. Much as your own is. You
623.07+Cluster: Always
623.07+phrase for a rainy day: for a time of need
623.07+new era [.06]
623.07+New Year's Day
623.07+Serbo-Croatian nevera: treachery, infidelity, unfaithfulness; a sudden lightning storm along the Adriatic coast of Croatia (e.g. in Pola, where Joyce lived from October 1904 to March 1905)
623.07+VI.B.47.030g (b): 'much as your own is'
623.07+(pub door open; trouser fly undone)
623.07+VI.B.47.031e (b): 'you invoiced him last Eatster so he ought to give us hot cockles in everything' ('he' is followed by an illegible scribble; 'in' replaces a cancelled 'and') [.07-.09]
623.08invoiced him last Eatster so he ought to give us hockockles and
623.08+invoice: (of a seller to a buyer) submit a bill of purchase, listing goods and prices, for payment
623.08+invited
623.08+Easter
623.08+eat cockles (seafood)
623.08+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...hockockles...} | {Png: ...hot cockles...}
623.08+HCE (Motif: HCE)
623.08+children's game hot cockles: an old game in which a blindfolded player is struck by one of the other players and needs to guess who did the hitting
623.09everything. Remember to take off your white hat, ech? When
623.09+Cluster: Forget and Remember
623.09+phrase take off that white hat: an obscure 19th century abusive catch-phrase (Motif: White hat)
623.09+(taking off one's hat as a masculine sign of respect) [.11]
623.09+VI.B.41.292b ( ): 'ech?'
623.09+ECH (Motif: HCE)
623.09+eh? (expecting assent)
623.10we come in the presence. And say hoothoothoo, ithmuthisthy!
623.10+VI.B.47.043g (g): 'in the presence'
623.10+phrase in the presence: in attendance upon a person of superior rank (e.g. royal majesty)
623.10+VI.B.41.292c (b): 'hoothooyouthoo' (last 'oo' uncertain)
623.10+how do you do, his majesty (formal greeting)
623.10+Howth (Howth Head)
623.10+VI.B.47.026c (g): 'ithmuthsy ithmuthisty?'
623.10+isthmus (of Sutton, joining Howth Head and the mainland)
623.11His is house of laws. And I'll drop my graciast kertssey too. If
623.11+VI.B.47.050c (r): 'His is house of Laws' ('of' uncertain)
623.11+House of Lords (the barons and earls of Howth (on Howth Head) were members of the Irish House of Lords until its abolition in 1800; one of them, the 4th and last earl, seems to have been a member of the British House of Lords until his death in 1909)
623.11+VI.B.47.033a (b): 'I'll kertssey to'
623.11+VI.B.47.035c (g): 'drop my kirtsy'
623.11+(most gracious)
623.11+Spanish gracias: thanks
623.11+Grace O'Malley [.06]
623.11+Kersse (Kersse the tailor)
623.11+curtsey (as a feminine sign of respect) [.09]
623.11+VI.B.47.032e (b): 'me homage must bow to the Montin if the mon Ming Teng no mindy to me homage' ('no mindy' replaces a cancelled 'wont do'; 'mindy' uncertain) [.11-.13]
623.11+proverb If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain: if one cannot have one's own way, one must concede to the inevitable
623.12the Ming Tung no go bo to me homage me hamage kow bow
623.12+VI.B.47.033b (b): 'me hamage must kow make tow to Mung Tong' ('kow make tow to' replaces a cancelled 'bend to the')
623.12+VI.B.47.034b (g): 'no go bo kow bow tow'
623.12+bow to me (as a sign of respect)
623.12+homage: a demonstration of respect
623.12+Motif: A/O
623.12+kow-tow: a Chinese custom of touching one's forehead to the ground (as a sign of extreme respect)
623.13tow to the Mong Tang. Ceremonialness to stand lowest place
623.13+VI.B.47.041a (g): 'Ceremonialness on the lowest place be'
623.13+(ceremony expects one to be humble; insisting on ceremony should not be a high priority)
623.13+Obsolete ceremonialness: ceremonial quality, ceremony
623.13+phrase stand on ceremony: insist on the observance of formalities
623.13+Douay-Rheims Luke 14:10: (The Parable of the Wedding Feast) 'when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher'
623.14be! Saying: What'll you take to link to light a pike on porpoise,
623.14+Motif: Why do I am alook alike a poss of porterpease? [021.18] [.06]
623.14+phrase bring to light: to make public, to reveal (e.g. some wrongdoing)
623.14+Archaic link: a type of torch, formerly used to light streets
623.14+light a pipe (the cad with the pipe)
623.14+pike, porpoise, plaice (marine animals)
623.14+Dialect pike: turnpike, toll-gate; turnpike road, toll road
623.14+on purpose
623.15plaise? He might knight you an Armor elsor daub you the first
623.15+please
623.15+knight in armour
623.15+Armoricus (Amory) Tristram (was a Norman knight)
623.15+Hungarian elsö: first [.17]
623.15+or else
623.15+dub: to confer a knighthood
623.15+daub: to coat with plaster, mud, dirt, etc. (Obsolete to clothe with tasteless finery; Slang to bribe)
623.16cheap magyerstrape. Remember Bomthomanew vim vam vom
623.16+chief magistrate (the last recorder and chief magistrate of Dublin, from 1905 to 1924, was Thomas O'Shaughnessy) [.22]
623.16+VI.B.47.044a (g): 'magyarstrates' ('rates' uncertain)
623.16+Hungarian magyar: Hungarian [.17]
623.16+Cluster: Forget and Remember
623.16+VI.B.47.034e-.035a (g): 'Bomthomanew vom Humgaryg' (first 'm' replaces a cancelled 'n'; 'vom' replaces a cancelled 'Vomhom'; 'Humgaryg' replaces a cancelled 'Homg')
623.16+Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh: History of the City of Dublin II.1066: 'in the year 1697, Bartholomew Vanhomrigh, then lord mayor, obtained from William III. a new collar of SS for the city, valued at that time at a £1000. This has been preserved with care, and is that worn by the chief magistrate of Dublin at this day... this worthy alderman was father to the celebrated Vanessa' (i.e. Collar of Esses, the Lord-Mayor's (and later, the chief magistrate's) chain of office, composed of interlinked copies of the letter S; William III of Orange and Swift's Vanessa) [.17]
623.16+anew
623.16+Motif: Fee faw fum
623.16+German vom: of the, from the
623.17Hungerig. Hoteform, chain and epolettes, botherbumbose. And
623.17+Hungary [.15-.16]
623.17+German hungrig: hungry
623.17+HCE (Motif: HCE)
623.17+French haut-de-forme: top hat
623.17+uniform
623.17+chain of office: a large heavy chain, often of gold, worn across the shoulders and chest as a symbol of office (e.g. Collar of Esses) [.16]
623.17+epaulettes: ornaments worn on the shoulders as part of a uniform, especially a military one
623.18I'll be your aural eyeness. But we vain. Plain fancies. It's in the
623.18+phrase be your eyes and ears: report to you about noteworthy things seen and heard (Motif: ear/eye)
623.18+Royal Highness: the style of address for a member of a royal family
623.18+aural: of the ear; of the aura
623.18+VI.B.47.050f (r): 'plain fancies'
623.18+plain, fancy (opposites)
623.19castles air. My currant bread's full of sillymottocraft. Aloof is
623.19+phrase castles in the air: unattainable schemes, daydreams, idle fancies
623.19+Howth Castle: the ancestral home (on Howth Head) of the St. Lawrence family, the lords and barons and earls of Howth from the 12th century onwards, descendants of Armoricus (Amory) Tristram
623.19+VI.B.47.051b (r): 'my currant bread's full of silly mattercraft'
623.19+(my head is full of silly matter)
623.19+(the breadth of the river's current is full of motor craft)
623.19+Archaic cinematograph: film camera; film projector
623.19+phrase enough is enough: this must stop
623.19+a loaf (of bread)
623.19+leaf, leaves [.19-.20] [619.22-.23] [624.22] [628.06-.07]
623.20anoof. We can take or leave. He's reading his ruffs. You'll know
623.20+phrase take our leave: to depart, to bid farewell
623.20+phrase take it or leave it: the offer is non-negotiable, it can only be accepted or refused
623.20+Betting Colloquial Ruff: Ruff's Guide to the Turf (a horse-racing almanac)
623.20+VI.B.41.292e (b): 'You know the way from there, surely?'
623.21our way from there surely. Flura's way. Where once we led so
623.21+VI.B.41.292f (b): 'Where once we led so many a couple have followed' ('a couple' is interpolated into the entry)
623.22many car couples have follied since. Clatchka! Giving Shaugh-
623.22+VI.B.41.293e (b): 'carcouples'
623.22+(couples making out in cars have since given birth to young girls)
623.22+Motif: O felix culpa!
623.22+folly: foolishness
623.22+filly: young mare, young female horse (Colloquial young woman)
623.22+Polish klaczka: filly, young female horse (pronounced 'klatchka')
623.22+clutch: a mechanism in cars that couples the transmission and the engine, allowing the driver to decouple the two when changing gears
623.22+VI.B.41.292g (b): 'Shaughnessy's mare'
623.22+Colloquial Shanks's mare: one's own legs (as a means of conveyance)
623.22+Thomas O'Shaughnessy: the last recorder and chief magistrate of Dublin (a judicial position abolished in 1924) [.16]
623.23nessy's mare the hillymount of her life. With her strulldeburg-
623.23+VI.B.41.293a (b): 'The hilly nt of her life' ('nt' uncertain and preceded by two or three illegible scribbles)
623.23+hill, mount (elevated land)
623.23+Dollymount: a seaside region within the Clontarf district of Dublin (between central Dublin and Howth Head)
623.23+merriment
623.23+VI.B.41.293c (b): 'Strud the burghers' ('trud' uncertain)
623.23+Struldbruggs: decrepit old men incapable of dying in Swift: Gulliver's Travels [.24]
623.23+Studebaker: American automobile manufacturer
623.23+German Slang strullen: to urinate
623.23+stroll
623.23+Archaic burghers: middle-class citizens of a town or borough
623.24ghers! Hnmn hnmn! The rollcky road adondering. We can sit
623.24+VI.B.41.293b (b): 'Hnmn Hnmn!'
623.24+(sound of automobile motor humming)
623.24+Houyhnhnms: a race of intelligent horses in Swift: Gulliver's Travels [.23]
623.24+VI.B.41.293d (b): 'The rollcky road adondering!'
623.24+song Rocky Road to Dublin
623.24+rollicky: carefree, merry and boisterous, given to frolicking in a joyous and careless manner
623.24+Spanish adonde: to where, whither
623.24+Dutch donderen: to thunder
623.24+VI.B.41.280c (b): 'sit on the ben to behold the arising' [.24-.26]
623.25us down on the heathery benn, me on you, in quolm uncon-
623.25+Anglo-Irish Ben Edar: Howth (Howth Head)
623.25+heather is very common on Howth Head [007.28]
623.25+Old Irish benn: mountain, peak
623.25+me and you
623.25+qualm of conscience
623.25+calm
623.25+unconscious
623.26sciounce. To scand the arising. Out from Drumleek. It was there
623.26+VI.B.41.280e (b): 'scand the arising'
623.26+scan the horizon
623.26+Latin scandere: to climb
623.26+Scandinavia, Denmark (from where the Vikings came)
623.26+rising (sun, in the east)
623.26+Drumleck Point: a point along the southern coast of Howth Head
623.26+Drum is a mountain in northern Wales (almost due east of Howth Head) and the leek is a national symbol of Wales
623.27Evora told me I had best. If I ever. When the moon of mourning
623.27+VI.B.47.044g (g): 'Evora R' (i.e. river)
623.27+Armoricus (Amory) Tristram defeated the Danes at the Battle of the Bridge of Evora (believed to be a long-gone bridge over a small stream on the northern coast of Howth Head) on 10 August 1177
623.27+I, river
623.27+(moon sets) [244.04]
623.27+song The Mountains of Mourne (a mountain range in County Down)
623.27+morning
623.28is set and gone. Over Glinaduna. Lonu nula. Ourselves, oursouls
623.28+Glen of the Downs: valley, County Wicklow
623.28+Romansch glina: Latin luna: moon
623.28+Italian duna: dune (some dunes on Howth Head beaches)
623.28+lone
623.28+Irish Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin Amháin: Ourselves, Ourselves Alone (Irish nationalist slogan; Motif: Sinn Féin)
623.28+our souls
623.29alone. At the site of salvocean. And watch would the letter you're
623.29+sight of salvation
623.29+ocean
623.29+VI.B.41.279d (g): 'letter in butt Howth' ('butt' uncertain; Howth Head)
623.29+(letter in a bottle, set adrift on the ocean, popularly associated with shipwrecked castaways) [624.01-.02]
623.29+Motif: The Letter
623.30wanting be coming may be. And cast ashore. That I prays for
623.30+becoming
623.30+VI.B.47.045c (g): 'cast ashore'
623.30+Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 131: 'Another legend asserts that one of the Lords of Howth was married to a lady of unknown and mysterious origin who was cast ashore by the tide' (Howth Head)
623.30+pray for the man of my dreams
623.30+pay for by means
623.31be mains of me draims. Scratching it and patching at with a
623.31+VI.B.47.011c (g): 'mains of me draims'
623.31+mains, drains: the pipes carrying water into and sewage out of a building, respectively [214.02]
623.31+(letter scratched at and pecked at by Biddy the hen; Motif: The Letter) [.32] [111.05-.09]
623.32prompt from a primer. And what scrips of nutsnolleges I pecked
623.32+Primas (Motif: Caddy/Primas) [624.01]
623.32+VI.B.47.007d (b): '& what scrips of knowledge I picked up myself'
623.32+Dialect scrip: a scrap of paper with writing on it [.36]
623.32+VI.B.47.043d ( ): 'nutsnolleges'
623.32+in Irish mythology, the Nuts of Knowledge were eaten by the Salmon of Knowledge, which Finn later caught
623.32+(illegible)
623.32+picked
623.32+(Biddy the hen pecking) [.31]
623.33up me meself. Every letter is a hard but yours sure is the hardest
623.33+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...up me...} | {JJA 63:228: ...up be...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 63:239)
623.33+by myself
623.33+(Motif: The Letter; Joyce: Finnegans Wake)
623.33+hard: (of letters, especially c and g) pronounced gutturally, rather than palatally (e.g. the 'c' in 'crux'; in Irish, the c and g are always hard)
623.33+HCE (Motif: HCE)
623.34crux ever. Hack an axe, hook an oxe, hath an an, heth hith ences.
623.34+German Haken und Öse: hook and eye (Motif: hook/eye)
623.34+the Hebrew letters zayin, vav, aleph, nun, kheth (Z, V, A, N, KH) historically meant 'weapon', 'hook', 'ox', 'fish', 'hedge', respectively
623.34+Anne Hathaway: William Shakespeare's wife
623.34+Parnell: hesitency
623.35But once done, dealt and delivered, tattat, you're on the map.
623.35+phrase signed, sealed and delivered: officially approved, successfully completed
623.35+Motif: Dear Dirty Dublin
623.35+(drum-roll)
623.36Rased on traumscrapt from Maston, Boss. After rounding his
623.36+based on transcript
623.36+Boston Evening Transcript: a Boston newspaper (until 1941; T.S. Eliot wrote a poem about it, titled 'The Boston Evening Transcript', in 1915; Motif: The Letter: Boston Transcript)
623.36+German Traum: dream
623.36+scraps [.32]
623.36+Boston, Mass. (Massachusetts) [624.04]
623.36+master, boss (near synonyms)
623.36+Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days


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