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[onebumper at parting from Mrs Molroe in the morning] abc/midi (was he Mr Molroe, or not?)

[anon witness re Festy King] "stated to his eliciter under his morse [walrus] mustaccents [moustaches]"
cf 031.13 [the king] smiled most heartily beneath his walrus moustaches

FW2: "that he would be {doorbringing} there {that night and how he was pleased} to remember"

[♬ and the dates of ould lanxiety]
[theirs not to reason why]

"creepfoxed andt grousuppers over a nippy in a noveletta" Shem and Shaun split by Issy

[♬ kings of mud and tory]

the goat king of Killorglin

Isod's tower [ruins]
[♬ O'Donner. Ay... Bu!]

'Norman Douglas, author of London Street Games (1931), describes the game Dead Man’s Rise, also known as Dead Man’s Dark Scenery or Coat, in which one child hides, covered with other players’ coats. When the other players call “Dead Man Rise,” the child who has been hiding starts to run after the others. The last player that he finds becomes “it” for the next round of the game' [pdf]

the word "crossexanimation" initiates a dream-replay of the Ithaca-style 'impersonal catechism' that Joyce called his favorite chapter of Ulysses


FDV: "said he saw or heard a man named Pat O'Donnell beat another of the Kings, Simon, but when the ambush was laid"

4DV: "said he remembered the fifth of November which was going to go down in the annals of history and that one thing which particularly struck him was that he saw or heard Pat O'Donnell beat and murder another of the Kings, Simon, between whom bad blood existed but it turned out in crossexamination that where the ambush was laid"

mysteries:  rowdy O; betterwomen



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[Livestock in Finnegans Wake]

horse [fweet-214] !?

dog [fweet-107]
cat [fweet-76]

chicken [fweet-26]
hen [fweet-64]
rooster [fweet-5] ?
cock [fweet-93]
egg [fweet-80]

bull [fweet-81] !
cow [fweet-39]
ox [fweet-14]
beef [fweet-16]
milk [fweet-91]
cheese [fweet-36]

goat [fweet-113] !
sheep [fweet-67]
goat/sheep motif [fweet-24]
lamb [fweet-29]
mutton [fweet-17]

pig [fweet-90] !
hog [fweet-15]
sow [fweet-27]
ham [fweet-38]
bacon [fweet-29]

ass [fweet-97]
donkey [fweet-24]
mule [fweet-5]

camel [fweet-30]

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"in feacht he was dripping as he found upon stripping for a pipkin of malt as he feared the coold raine" [song lyric?]
cf 68.01 'finding one day while dodging chores that she stripped teasily for binocular man'



pipkin

"King, elois Crowbar, once known as Meleky" (successors to fallen heroes)

[camel and ass, greybeard and suckling]

FW2 offers "marmatron and merrymeg" for the unwakelike "matrmatron" (marmalade and nutmeg???)

"tar... luvial peatsmoor... clanetourf... Mudford... mudstorm... muck"


FDV: "It was attempted to show that having come to the door with a pig this animal ate some of the doorpost, King selling it because it [...] the woodwork off her sty. An eyewitness"

4DV: "It was attempted to show that King rubbed some dirt on his face to disguise himself and was at the fair of a Monday with a pig when the animal ate some of the doorpost, King selling it because she ate a lot of the woodwork of her sty in order to pay off arrears of rent. An eyewitness"

mysteries:



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'Peter the Painter' C96 Mauser

alpenstock

Red Hand of Ulster

[fearstung boaconstrictor]

"pleased... at having other people's weather" maybe: seeing thru their eyes?

There's been several men named Festus King in the Galway area in the last 200yrs, and as of 1959 the name still appeared on one of the storefronts in this image: (described vaguely as a shop, but maybe instead an office?)

 sou'-wester:

FDV: "who, when mistakenly molested, was simply exercising one of the most primary liberties of the subject by walking along a public thoroughfare in broad daylight. As if that would not do a countryman Festy King who gave an address in Monaghan was subsequently brought up on an improper indictment of both counts."

4DV: "who, when mistakenly ambushed, was simply exercising one of the most primary liberties of the subject by walking along a public thoroughfare in broad daylight. As if that was not enough for anyone but little headway was made when a countryman, Festy King, who gave an address in Joyce's country in the heart of a wellfamed poteen district, was subsequently brought up on an improperly framed indictment."

mysteries:



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[assback bridge] ie, peaked in middle?
"their humoral hurlbat" why 'their'? how 'humoral'?

hurlbat vs hurley bat

lignum vitae bat

Cross of St Patrick

'The pinna, auricle, or pavilion is that portion [of the ear] projecting from the head, which first receives the waves of sound.' [1905]

succession of weapons? scissors/paper/stone?
"Nowthen, leaving clashing ash, [ashwood?]
brawn and muscle [redundant?]
and brassmade to oust earthenborn [tech succession? made vs born]
and rockcrystal to wreck isinglass [smash window] [oust vs wreck = east/west??]
but wurming along gradually for our savings [???]
backtowards motherwaters so many miles from bank and Dublin stone..."




FDV: "while the fenderite reported the occurrence, his face being all covered with blood as a proof that he was bleeding from the nose, mouth & ears while some of his hair had been pulled off his head though otherwise his health was good enough. As regards the fender the question of unlawfully obtaining is subsidiary to the far more capital point of the political bias of a person"

4DV: "he went off with the four and seven and the hurlbat, picked up, while the man who was left with the fender who bore up under it with a number of plumsized bruises on him, reported the occurrence at the watch house in Vicar Street, his face all covered with blood as good proof of his serious character and that he was bleeding from the nose, mouth and two ears while some of his hair had been pulled off his head though other wise his allround health was middling enough. Now coming on to the question of unlawfully obtaining a pierced fender and fireguard there crops up like a shot the far more capital point of the political bias of a person who"

mysteries: mitsmillers, clashing ash, brassmade, savings



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"four and sevenpence" about $20 today
"boy baches" = by Bacchus = 'per Bacco' (Italian oath)

[Nichtian glossery]
[aprioric roots for aposteriorious tongues]
[nat language]

brogue

two humans, usually both male, come into conflict about a usually-singular always-carryable ambiguous object: pipe or watch or bottle or fender or parcel or letter: "...tableknife... cark... dunhill... culubosh... empties... repeater... timespiece... smokewallet... cheroot... brown boyo... revulverher... [062.28] suspicious parcel... revolver... centiblade... Hobson's... Kane's fender... fender... lumber... twelvechamber... bottle of single... a bottlop stoub... magnum bonum... guns... bottle of boose... musikants' instrumongs... popguns... the fender and the bottle... chain envelope... pouch... coffin... handharp... carcasses mattonchepps and meatjutes... lousaforitch... bedstead... gage... Barrel... glatt stones... bandol... horn... what... teak coffin... handful... Oorlog... stone slab... soil... filthdump... leabhar... loveletter... barrel... oblong bar... stick... cradle... booksafe... worm... woden affair in the shape of a webley... knobkerries... strongbox... the wartrophy eluded at some lives earlier was that somethink like a jug, to what, a coctable"

[the boy]
[the Good Woman at Ringsend]
[Quantity Street]

"He spud in his faust (axin):
he toped the raw best (pardun):
he poked his pick (a tip is a tap):
and he tucked his friend's leave."


FDV: "give you four and 7 pence to buy whisky. At the mention of whisky the wouldbe burglar became calm and left the place"

2DV: You plucky stunning little Southdowner! This is my goalball {Goalball} I've struck this day, by golly! You have some pluck grit, south downer!
4DV: "to advance you four and sevenpence between hopping and trotting to buy whisky. At the mention of whisky the gunman became calm and remarking, apparently highly pleased: You stunning little southdowner! Goalball I've struck this day, by golly! You have some grit, south downer!"

mysteries:



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i hear DD pronouncing "boy baches" as batches, but it could be backs, bocks, bakes, botches, backiss, backus

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[tell he me]

1925 Webley

mummified cat and rat at Christchurch Cathedral

knobkerries:

[hap]



FDV: "and in the course of it the masked man said to the other: Let me go, Pat. Later on the same man asked: Was six pounds fifteen taken from you by anyone two or three months ago? There was severe mauling and then a wooden affair in the shape of a revolver fell from the intruder who thereupon became friendly & wanted to know whether his chance companion who had the fender happened to have the change of a ten pound note because, if so, he would pay the six pounds odd out of that for what was lost last summer. The other then said: Would you be surprised to hear that I have not such a thing but I am able to"

4DV: "and in the course of it the masked man said to the other: Let me go, Pat. Later on the same man asked: Was six pounds fifteen taken off you by anyone 2 or 3 months ago? There was some further severe mauling and then a wooden affair in the shape of a revolver fell from the intruder who thereupon became friendly and wanted to know whether his chance companion who still had the fender happened to have the change of a ten pound note about him as, if so, he would pay the six pounds odd out of that for what was taken on last July. To this the other then said: Would you be surprised to hear that I honestly have not such a thing as the loose change of a ten pound note about me at the moment but I believe I can see my way"

mysteries: booksafe



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"the viability of vicinals if invisible is invincible" = hidden paths are best?

Brahm/Bram/Brahms/Abraham [biblical] Brahma [Hindu]
Anton [brother/twin of Brahm? Europeanised from Latin 'Antonius']
Hermes [shared surname? Greek]

among the many allusions to roadbuilding-and-using there's a definite thread evoking a Gaelic-speaking Dublin tram-conductor: "(lugod! lugodoo!)... Issy-la-Chapelle! Any lucans, please? ...the tramestrack... Per omnibus... So more boher to O'Connell! ...Halte! ...traums halt (Beneathere! Beneathere!)" Wikipedia documents their routes in J's era (but would he have heard officals using Gaelic, yet?)
recall too the Dutch 'all aboard' on p77: "(insteppen, alls als hats beliefd!)"

"this disoluded and a buchan cold spot" (what's that "a" syntactically?)
[buchan cold spot]
[♬ Brennan's... pass]

"not where... but where" (unusual place-exclusion? fweet-4)

[♬ headandheelless chickenestegg]
[♬ sacré pour un sacreur]
[♬ femme à barbe]

"de Razzkias trying to reconnoistre the general Boukeleff"
026.03 journeyall Buggaloffs
040.07 the evangelical bussybozzy and the rusinurbean
042.11 how the bouckaleens shout their roscan generally
049.08 Blanco Fusilovna Bucklovitch
101.19 it was Buckleyself... who struck and the Russian generals, da! da!, instead of Buckley who was caddishly struck
105.21 How the Buckling Shut at Rush in January
etc-37

FDV: "There evidently the attacker, though under medium, with truly native pluck tackled him whom he took to be catching hold of a long bar he had & with which he broke furniture. The struggle went on for a considerable time"

4DV: "It was on this resurfaced spot evidently that the attacker, though under medium, with truly native pluck tackled him whom he mistook to be somebody else, making use of sacrilegious language to the effect that he would have his life and lay him out at the same time catching hold of a long bar he had and with which he usually broke furniture. They struggled for some considerable time"

mysteries: Adgigasta [paters usually end with '-us' not '-a']; Brahm and Anton Hermes; Lautrill


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