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625.01night when you twicetook me for some Marienne Sherry and
625.01+mistook me for
625.01+took me twice (i.e. had sex with me twice)
625.01+French somme: a nap, a quick sleep
625.01+VI.B.47.020a (g): 'La Marienne' ('La' uncertain)
625.01+French Dialect marienne: daytime sleep (especially after a meal)
625.01+Marianne: a personification of the French Republic (and especially its principle of liberty) in the form of a defiant young woman
625.01+French chérie: darling, sweetheart (feminine)
625.02then your Jermyn cousin who signs hers with exes and the beard-
625.02+German
625.02+cousin-german: first cousin, the son or daughter of one's uncle or aunt
625.02+(signs her name with X's) [205.09]
625.02+(signs her letters with crosses; Motif: The Letter: four crosskisses)
625.02+(Motif: Sign of the cross)
625.02+VI.B.47.023a (g): 'And the beardwig I found in your Clarksome bag' ('beardwig' uncertain)
625.02+Pharaohs wore false beards on ceremonial occasions, as a symbol of divinity [.03]
625.02+earwig
625.03wig I found in your Clarksome bag. Pharaops you'll play you're
625.03+Gladstone bag: a light travelling-bag
625.03+Willy Clarkson: famous 19th-20th century London wig-maker (for theatrical and non-theatrical uses)
625.03+VI.B.47.026d (b): 'Pharoops you are the king' (only first word crayoned)
625.03+perhaps
625.03+Pharaoh: the title of the kings of ancient Egypt [.02] [.04]
625.03+(play a role, in both a theatrical and a sexual context)
625.04the king of Aeships. You certainly make the most royal of noises.
625.04+Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian II.152: The Battle of Lora: 'Erragon, king of ships!'
625.04+Egypt [.03]
625.04+Aesop: famous 6th century BC Greek fabulist (the 1780 novelette The History and Amours of Rhodope recounts the fictional love story of the beautiful Rhodope and the ugly Aesop, ending with the latter abandoning the former to marry the Pharaoh of Egypt) [.03]
625.04+Irish aos sidhe: fairy folk (pronounced 'aes-shee')
625.04+(have a noisy orgasm)
625.04+royal: befitting a king (Colloquial first-rate (often as an ironic intensifier))
625.05I will tell you all sorts of makeup things, strangerous. And show
625.05+VI.B.47.023c (g): 'makeup things strangerous' ('things' circled in green crayon)
625.05+make-up: relating to false fabrication; relating to reconciliation; relating to facial cosmetics [617.18]
625.05+strange, dangerous
625.05+stranger
625.05+VI.B.47.005b (b): 'show you to'
625.06you to every simple storyplace we pass. Cadmillersfolly, Bellevenue,
625.06+VI.B.30.ffvf (g): 'storyplace'
625.06+(we pass along the way)
625.06+VI.B.47.005f (g): 'Cadmill s Falter'
625.06+Irish céad míle fáilte: a hundred thousand welcomes (traditional Irish greeting)
625.06+cad (the cad with the pipe)
625.06+Miller's Folly: the name or nickname of several follies (extravagant ornamental buildings of little practical use) designed by Sanderson Miller, an 18th century English architect and landscape designer
625.06+folly: foolishness (Obsolete insanity, mental illness)
625.06+Bellevue: a hospital in New York City popularly associated with the treatment of mentally ill patients
625.06+French bienvenue: welcome (greeting)
625.07Wellcrom, Quid Superabit, villities valleties. Change the plates
625.07+VI.B.47.022e (g): 'wellcrom'
625.07+welcome (greeting)
625.07+Oliver Cromwell (Motif: anagram) [619.36]
625.07+Latin quid superabit: what shall surmount?, what shall ascend?, what shall surpass?, what shall traverse?
625.07+Latin phrase Quis separabit: Who shall separate? (the motto of several British army units stationed in Ireland, as well as the Order of Saint Patrick (a British order of chivalry specific to Ireland), stressing the seeming inseparability of Britain and Ireland)
625.07+VI.B.47.024b (g): 'Villitis Vallitis'
625.07+Ecclesiastes 1:2: 'vanity of vanities' [354.05] [628.06]
625.07+Obsolete vility: vileness of character; lowliness of condition
625.07+Obsolete vallet: small valley
625.07+change places (in bed) [.35]
625.08for the next course of murphies! Spendlove's still there and the
625.08+Slang murphies: potatoes
625.08+Morpheus: the classical personification of sleep and dreams (Slang Murphy: sleep)
625.08+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...murphies! Spendlove's...} | {Png: ...murphies. Spendlove's...}
625.09canon going strong and so is Claffey's habits endurtaking and
625.09+canon: a clergy member of a cathedral or collegiate church
625.09+Colloquial phrase going strong: thriving, prosperous
625.09+CHE (Motif: HCE)
625.09+Margaret Claffey: 19th-20th century Dublin nun, residing at the Dominican convent on 18/19 Eccles Street, the daughter of Patrick Claffey, a 19th century Dublin pawnbroker (Joyce: Ulysses.8.153: 'Sister? Pat Claffey, the pawnbroker's daughter. It was a nun they say invented barbed wire')
625.09+habits: the garments worn by nuns and monks
625.09+undertaking
625.10our parish pomp's a great warrent. But you'll have to ask that
625.10+parish priest
625.10+pompous
625.10+pump, torrent (water)
625.10+VI.B.3.100g (r): 'a bad warrent to —' (only first three words crayoned)
625.10+Anglo-Irish phrase a great warrant: a person who may be relied upon (to do something)
625.10+that same four (Motif: The four of them; *X*) [621.05]
625.11same four that named them is always snugging in your bar-
625.11+VI.B.47.027b (g): 'those old four deciders, the puderests, sitting so snuggy and pretending they're owing their life for —' ('old four deciders' uncertain)
625.11+Cluster: Always
625.11+Anglo-Irish snug: a small partitioned area in a pub (often used for private discussions, e.g. arranging marriages or funerals) [368.36]
625.11+saloon bar: a separate bar in a pub, usually slightly more comfortable and expensive than the public bar
625.11+Borsalino: a trademarked fedora hat made by the Italian company Borsalino (Joyce wore one)
625.12salooner, saying they're the best relicts of Conal O'Daniel and
625.12+relicts: remains, remnants (Obsolete survivors)
625.12+Daniel O'Connell: the preeminent leader of Catholic Ireland in the first half of the 19th century
625.12+Conal: Irish male given name (e.g. the name of numerous medieval Irish kings; also spelled Conall)
625.13writing Finglas since the Flood. That'll be some kingly work in pro-
625.13+Finglas: district of Dublin
625.13+Work in Progress: Joyce's name for Joyce: Finnegans Wake during composition
625.13+(the road the king will be travelling along) [030.16-.19]
625.14gress. But it's by this route he'll come some morrow. And I
625.14+tomorrow
625.14+VI.B.47.036c (g): 'I'll signal you what flint & fern — are rastling so as you can wise your sulmon on to it' ('fern' is followed by a cancelled 'and'; the 't' of 'rastling' replaces a cancelled 'l'; the 'ul' of 'sulmon' replaces a cancelled 'el') [.14-.16]
625.15can signal you all flint and fern are rasstling as we go by. And
625.15+Motif: tree/stone (flint, fern)
625.15+rustling
625.15+wrestling
625.16you'll sing thumb a bit and then wise your selmon on it. It is all
625.16+VI.B.47.038b (g): 'thumb sing'
625.16+Finn singed his thumb while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge and in sucking it to relieve the pain acquired lifelong wisdom; in some accounts, he would later suck his thumb when great decisions were required
625.16+phrase sing dumb: be silent
625.16+Slang dumb: stupid (opposite of wise)
625.16+phrase bite one's thumb (at another, as a gesture of contempt or defiance)
625.16+write your sermon
625.16+phrase as wise as Solomon: extremely wise
625.17so often and still the same to me. Snf? Only turf, wick dear! Clane
625.17+VI.B.47.024d (g): 'You've never fogodden batt as tarf? Snf? Only turf. Clane turf too. why' ('as' and 'why' uncertain) [.18]
625.17+(Cluster: Three-Consonant Sentences: Snf)
625.17+sniff? [624.25]
625.17+Slang phrase on the turf: working as a prostitute
625.17+turf: peat (soil rich in partly decayed organic matter, dug from bogs in the form of bricks and used in Ireland as fuel; many such peat bogs in central Ireland, including around Clane)
625.17+VI.B.47.025h (g): 'wick'
625.17+Slang wick: penis
625.17+Earwicker
625.17+dear: beloved; expensive
625.17+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...dear! Clane...} | {Png: ...dear. Clane...}
625.17+Battle of Clontarf, 1014, in which an Irish army led by Brian Boru defeated a mostly Viking army (often referred to as the Danes), and at the end of which he died [.17-.19]
625.17+clean
625.17+Clane: village, County Kildare (Clongowes Wood College, where Joyce studied as a child from 1888 to 1892, is located nearby)
625.18turf. You've never forgodden batt on tarf, have you, at broin
625.18+forgotten (Cluster: Forget and Remember)
625.18+fog-ridden (Dialect fog-earth: peat, turf)
625.18+Motif: Butt/Taff
625.18+battle
625.18+bat, turf (cricket)
625.18+bat: a brick of peat
625.18+VI.B.47.024c (g): 'broin burroo' [.17]
625.18+Brian Boru [.17]
625.18+brown (the colour of peat)
625.19burroow, what? Mch? Why, them's the muchrooms, come up
625.19+traditionally, freshly-dug bricks of peat were carted from the bog on a barrow (a wheelbarrow)
625.19+(Cluster: Three-Consonant Sentences: Mch)
625.19+German mich?: me?
625.19+much?
625.19+(Pyramids of Egypt (mushroom-like); Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.19+VI.B.47.025a (g): 'the muchrooms'
625.19+(large tenements with many apartments and rooms, popping up like mushrooms)
625.20during the night. Look, agres of roofs in parshes. Dom on dam,
625.20+(Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon (perched fields); Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.20+Motif: Look, look! [.23]
625.20+acres, roods, perches (units of area for land measurement; Joyce: Ulysses.17.1500: 'acres, roods and perches')
625.20+phrase acres of: large quantities of, many (i.e. many roofs)
625.20+Latin ager: field
625.20+parishes
625.20+patches
625.20+d + (Motif: 5 vowels) + m: O, A, I (Y instead of U, E missing)
625.20+(Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (female cathedral); Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.20+Motif: Tom/Tim
625.20+German Dom: cathedral
625.20+dam: female parent (of animals, and contemptuously of humans)
625.21dim in dym. And a capital part for olympics to ply at. Steadyon,
625.21+(Lighthouse of Alexandria (house in smoke); Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.21+Ukrainian dim: house
625.21+Ukrainian dym: smoke
625.21+(Statue of Zeus at Olympia (capitoline for olympics); Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.21+the temple of Jupiter (the Roman equivalent of Zeus) was located on the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome (the ancient Capitoline Games, modelled after the Olympic Games, were held in honour of him nearby)
625.21+Colloquial capital: excellent
625.21+port [.22]
625.21+VI.B.47.056f (g): 'olymp games'
625.21+the ancient Olympic Games were held at Olympia, initially composed of only one major event, the stadion (a roughly 200 metre sprint) held at the stadion (stadium)
625.21+play
625.21+Colloquial phrase steady on!: be more careful!, be more restrained!
625.22Cooloosus! Mind your stride or you'll knock. While I'm dodging
625.22+(Colossus of Rhodes; Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.22+colossus: someone gigantic (from the so-named gigantic statue which stood astride the entrance to the port of Rhodes, and similar statues elsewhere; *E*)
625.22+Finn was the son of Cool (Cumhall)
625.23the dustbins. Look what I found! A lintil pea. And look at here!
625.23+(Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (grave); Cluster: 7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
625.23+VI.B.47.053a (g): 'the dustbins'
625.23+Slang dustbin: grave
625.23+in pantomime Hansel and Gretel, the two young children are abandoned in the forest by their poor father; having tried to mark their way back home with tiny bread crumbs, only to have these eaten by birds, they end up instead at the gingerbread house of a witch, made entirely of sweet things (i.e. *A* plays the role of a bird here) [.23-.25]
625.23+VI.B.47.053b (g): 'look. I found something?'
625.23+ALP (Motif: ALP)
625.23+lentil, pea (legumes)
625.23+little
625.24This cara weeseed. Pretty mites, my sweetthings, was they poor-
625.24+caraway seed
625.24+Italian cara: dear, beloved (feminine)
625.24+Anglo-Irish wee: tiny
625.24+Colloquial mite: a tiny thing or piece; a small child
625.24+Colloquial poor loves: unfortunate loved ones
625.24+poor loaves (i.e. loaves of bread for the poor) [.25]
625.25loves abandoned by wholawidey world? Neighboulotts for new-
625.25+phrase the whole wide world: the entire world, everyone
625.25+VI.B.47.031a (b): 'neighbour'
625.25+neighbourhoods for a new town
625.25+nebulae, Isaac Newton, beheld, lumen (astronomy)
625.25+French Colloquial boulotter: to eat
625.25+North Lotts Street and South Lotts Road, Dublin (not adjacent; both are about 1-2 kilometres from Saint Ann's Church, Dawson Street)
625.25+Theophilus Butler, Lord Newtown: a 17th-18th century Anglo-Irish peer who bequeathed upon his death, in 1723, a perpetual allowance for the weekly (later daily) distribution of bread to the poor at Saint Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin (the bread shelf and the detailed plaque commemorating the bequest are still in the church to this day) [.24]
625.25+Motif: new/same (new town, same city) [.27]
625.26town. The Eblanamagna you behazyheld loomening up out of the
625.26+VI.B.47.046d (g): 'Eblana'
625.26+Eblana: Ptolemy's name for Dublin (or so it was mostly believed in Joyce's time) [.27]
625.26+Latin magna: big, great (feminine)
625.26+hazily beheld
625.26+looming
625.26+Latin lumen: light
625.27dumblynass. But the still sama sitta. I've lapped so long. As you
625.27+Lithuanian dumblinas: muddy, sludgy
625.27+dumbly: speechlessly, silently
625.27+Dublin [.26]
625.27+German nass: wet
625.27+ass
625.27+still: as before; silent
625.27+Finnish sama: same (spelled 'seamma' in the related Sámi languages) [.25]
625.27+the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia are also known as the Lapps
625.27+siida: among the Sámi people, a local community centred around reindeer herding (a fundamental unit in Sámi society)
625.27+Italian città: city [.25]
625.27+VI.B.47.083b (g): 'I've lapped'
625.27+(river lapping the city)
625.27+LAP (Motif: ALP)
625.27+slept so long, as you said
625.28said. It fair takes. If I lose my breath for a minute or two don't
625.28+Colloquial phrase it fair takes my breath away: I am completely amazed
625.28+VI.B.41.279a (g): 'if I lose my breath a moment' [.32]
625.28+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1452: 'The Liffey was entirely dry at Dublin for the space of two minutes' [204.01-.02]
625.29speak, remember! Once it happened, so it may again. Why I'm
625.29+Cluster: Forget and Remember
625.29+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...remember! Once...} | {Png: ...remember. Once...}
625.29+VI.B.47.013b (b): 'onced it happened so against it may' ('onced' replaces a cancelled 'once'; 'st' is interpolated into the entry)
625.29+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...it may...} | {JJA 63:233: ...may it...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 63:241)
625.29+VI.B.47.009d (b): 'why I'm these years within years in soffran'
625.30all these years within years in soffran, allbeleaved. To hide away
625.30+suffering
625.30+saffron: an orange-yellow condiment and dye (the colour of traditional Irish kilts and of some Buddhist monks' robes; represents purity in Hinduism)
625.30+VI.B.47.025c (g): ', allbeleaved'
625.30+bereaved
625.30+beloved
625.30+Joyce: Ulysses.11.1101: 'To wipe away a tear for martyrs'
625.31the tear, the parted. It's thinking of all. The brave that gave their.
625.31+VI.B.47.009c (b): 'the dear the parted'
625.31+phrase the dear departed: ones who has died
625.31+phrase the brave and the fair: heroic men and women, stereotypically (often traced to Dryden: Alexander's Feast: 'None but the brave deserves the fair'; Joyce: Ulysses.15.4633: 'CUNTY KATE: The brave and the fair')
625.31+(gave their lives)
625.32The fair that wore. All them that's gunne. I'll begin again in a
625.32+(wore mourning)
625.32+VI.B.47.030d (b): 'all the gunn' (the entry is preceded by an obscure mark, perhaps *V*, perhaps an 'A' to replace the 'a')
625.32+Michael Gunn [626.19]
625.32+gone
625.32+VI.B.41.279b (g): 'wait, I'll begin again in a jiffey' (last 'e' uncertain) [.28]
625.32+(begin breathing again) [.28]
625.32+Colloquial phrase in a jiffy: in a very short time, in a moment
625.33jiffey. The nik of a nad. How glad you'll be I waked you! My!
625.33+Liffey river
625.33+phrase in the blink of an eye: very quickly, instantly
625.33+Colloquial my! (exclamation of amazement)
625.34How well you'll feel! For ever after. First we turn by the vagurin
625.34+Icelandic vogurinn: the bay
625.34+French vaurien: a good-for-nothing, a worthless person (*C*)
625.35here and then it's gooder. So side by side, turn agate, wedding-
625.35+American Colloquial do-gooder: a well-meaning but misguided social reformer (*V*)
625.35+Colloquial gooder: better
625.35+(river and city, side by side; walking side by side; lying side by side and turning in bed) [.07]
625.35+VI.B.47.051d ( ): 'turn again wedding turn' (crossed out in the same green ink it is written in)
625.35+pantomime Dick Whittington and His Cat: 'Turn again, Whittington, Lord-Mayor of London' [626.02]
625.35+turn your gaze
625.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...agate...} | {JJA 63:284: ...agaze...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 63:325)
625.36town, laud men of Londub! I only hope whole the heavens sees
625.36+laud: to praise, to glorify
625.36+Irish londubh: blackbird
625.36+Dublin (Motif: anagram, nearly)
625.36+all


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