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heliotrope

asters

Bow Bells' prophecy: "Turn again Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London" [wiki]

Ally Sloper

"his eyelids are painted" (medieval ascetics tattooed eyelids black?) [sourcetext] [ditto] [fweet-13] [VI.B3]

oldenborre/ cockchafer

'Sweet Sir Walter' ♬ (date rape)
Swan Water river?
"the starry cope / Of Heaven" Milton, Paradise Lost
"I've a Secret to Tell Thee" ♬ [sheetmusic] [cf Dennis, Don't Be Threatening]
"have the mind to retire to be wicked" [etext]
"Six thirteens" [via]
odd street names in Dublin




FDV: "quasimodo, royal, sago, tango, umber, vanilla, wistaria, xray, yesplease, zaza, philomel, theerose. What are they all by? Shee. If you knew her in her prime make sure you find her complimentary. Or {by Angus Dagdasson & all his picciapiccions, on your very first occasion} she'll prick where you're proud with her speagle eye. Look sharp, she's signalling again from among the asters. {Turn again wishfulton loud mere at {of} Doubtluin. Arise, land under wave.} Clap your lingua to your pallet, drop your jowl with a jolt, tambourine until your breath slides, pet a pout and it's out. Have you got me, Allysloper?"



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"He nobit smorfi endgo poltri and let all the tondo gang bola del ruffo. Baito no know him mor. Eat larto altruis with most perfect stranger." he ate dinner and went to bed and let the whole world go to hell; his house no longer knew him; he ate Dante's salty bread of strangers. (Amaro = Italian underworld slang & craftsmen's cant?)

[♬ My Sweetheart When a Boy]
[♬ Eily Mavourneen, I See Thee before Me] lyrics



FDV: "His lasterhalft was set for getting the bester of his yougendtougend for control number thrice was operating the sibliminal of his invaded personality. {He nobit smorfi endgo poltra & all the tonto gang bola del ruffo. Barto no know him mor, eat larti autruis with most perfect stranger.} He wept undeiterum. With such a tooth he seemed to love his wee tart when a buy. Highly momourning he see thee before him. Melanied from nape to kneecap though vied from thigh girders up. San Talto, sight most deletious! Lift the black ve veared as hell! Split the hvide, and aye seize heaven. Prettymaide hues may have their cry apple, bacchante, custard, dove, eskimo, fawn, ginger, hemalite isinglass, jet, kipper, lucile, mimosa, nut, oysterette, prune,"

2DV: "tale that knows no brooking runs on to say, His lasterhalft was set for getting the bester of his yougendtougend for control number thrice was operating the sibliminal of his invaded personality. He nobit smorfi endgo poltri & all the tondo gang bola del ruffo. Barto no know him mor, eat larti autruis with most perfect stranger. He wept undeiterum. With such a tooth he seemed to love his wee tart when a buy. Highly momourning he see thee before him. Melanied from nape to kneecap though vied from thigh girders up. San Talto, sight most deletious! Lift the blank ve veared as hell! Split the hvide, and aye seize heaven. He knows for he's seen it in black & white. Tantamount to a clearobscure. Prettymaide hues may have their cry apple, bacchante, custard, dove, eskimo, fawn, ginger, hemalite isinglass, jet, kipper, lucile, mimosa, nut, oysterette, prune,"



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Unicode for James Joyce NEEDED!

[Taking suggestions for a Unicode character set for Joyceans, starting with the Finnegans Wake sigla]

Finnegans Wake is written as a dream, with archetypal characters whose names are never the same twice. In his notes, and occasionally in the published text as well, he used 'sigla' that had deep resonances for him that are still mostly unexplained.

Joyce scholars have used various tricks to represent them. [fweet-font] [FW Circular-$ASCII]

On page 299, footnote 5, Joyce summarises the seven basic FW sigla, clearly handwritten, as "The Doodles family". The new edition redraws them with straighter, thinner lines but fails to capture their relative sizes and angles.

FW1 vs FW2

FW Circular: $E, $A, $I.1, $X, $[], $/\, $[.

The triangle recurs inline at 119.19, the 'caret' at 124.09. There are rotations of 'E' at 006.32, 036.17, 119.17.

Rotations of 'F' occur at 018.36, 121.03, 121.07, and 266.22.

The notebooks have many other variants, especially a sort of "Æ" without the horizontal midstrokes (combining a caret and a bracket), a "Circled Plus", a "Large Circle".

Unicode offers a "Latin Capital Letter Reversed E" (and "There Exists") but lacks other rotated versions.  (The Joycefont should probably specify that the middle stroke of the E be shorter, though this is debatable.)

There's a "Turned Capital F" and a "Latin Epigraphic Letter Reversed F" but other rotations are needed.

There's no rotations of "T" per se, but there's Left, Right, Up, and Down "Tack"s.

There's a "Latin Capital Letter Turned V" and a "Logical And". There's a "Left Square Bracket" and a "Square Image Of".

There's a "White Up Pointing Triangle", a "White Medium Square, a "Multiplication X" and a "Heavy Multiplication X"


$/[ $I.2 $I.3 $I.29 $O
$P for Patrick
$T as an earlier alternate for Tristan
$S for the serpent, or Sigurdsen/Sackerson
$K for Kate, the old gummy granny (or for Kevin)

[The sigla of Finnegans Wake]

siglum (plural sigla) = A letter or other symbol that stands for a word or name (from Latin: an abbreviation) [cite]

[McH] the online edition of this is poorly ocr'd so links here are to page-images

1. HCE EƎ∃
2. Shem [
3. Shaun Ʌ∧^
4. Issys ┴⊥⊣⊢
5. ALP △
6. Æ T
7. The Four, the twelve ✕✖X◯
8. The letter ◻⊕
9. Sackerson and Kate SK

[fweet-219] a triangle without a base or an "A" without a bar (a.k.a. Shaun)
[fweet-155] an "E" fallen forwards (a.k.a. HCE)
[fweet-150] an "X" or cross (a.k.a. Mamalujo or Four Masters)
[fweet-138] Shaun, Shem, and ?Tristan as one unit (a.k.a. Three Soldiers)
[fweet-136] the two Issys as one unit (a.k.a. Two Temptresses)
[fweet-118] an "E" without a bar or a square-angled "C" (a.k.a. Shem)
[fweet-101] a triangle or delta (a.k.a. ALP)
[fweet-65] a "T" fallen forwards (a.k.a. Issy)
[fweet-63] an "S" (a.k.a. Joe or Sigurdsen or Sackerson or Serpent)
[fweet-61] a circle (a.k.a. Twelve Sullivans)
[fweet-39] a merging of Shaun and Shem (a.k.a. Shem-Shaun or Magrath or Cad)
[fweet-37] an ellipse or oval (a.k.a. Twenty-Nine Maggies or Rainbow Girls)
[fweet-28] a "K" (a.k.a. Kate)
[fweet-18] a square (a.k.a. Container or Book or Title)
[fweet-17] a "T" fallen backwards (a.k.a. Mirror Issy)
[fweet-10] a "T" upside down (a.k.a. Isolde; an early siglum)
[fweet-8] a "T" (a.k.a. Tristan; an early siglum)
[fweet-6] an "E" fallen backwards (a.k.a. Fallen HCE)
[fweet-4] a circle overlayed with a cross (a.k.a. Wheel)
[fweet-1] a "P" (a.k.a. Patrick; an early siglum)


before HCE and ALP, were Tristan and Isolde (T&I) and Mark, with Isolde as T's inverse (⊥) and already with her own inverse (10.15 "Isolde of Britt[any] - Pen[elope]  [Isolde of] White hands  Calypso") (⊣⊢)

before HCE were Pop, ROC, and Mark
before Shaun were Kevin (K) and Patrick (P, SP)
before Shem was Berkeley

"For dating FW notes, there's an extremely important sequence in the early notebooks, as the generic human roles begin to take on personal identities. (Hayman was the first to point this out, in "Wake in Transit".) The following abbreviations appear even in the Ulysses notes, and persist in the earliest FW notes: M(an), W(oman), H(usband), W(ife), OGG (Old Gummy Granny), RL (Rich Lady?), OM (Old Man) In the spring of 1923, characters from Wagner's Tristan suddenly predominate: Trist, T, I, Is, Brang(aene), M(ark) ...along with P for Patrick and K for Kevin. Mark's identity is extended to make him Isolde's father, and his name changes to 'Pop'. His wife appears briefly as Mop. By autumn 1923, Pop has become Earwicker or HCE or E, and his wife ALP soon after. Tristan and Isolde are usually T+I, and the idea that they're mirror images probably led to the adoption of an inverted-T siglum for Issy." [cite]

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Margaret Anderson was 43 when she published the first volume of her autobiography "My Thirty Years' War" in 1930.  She had published the Little Review from 1914 to 1929, serialising Ulysses with Ezra Pound's help from 1918 to 1921. "Our thirty minutes war's alull." seems to be FW's only allusion to her-- though they were both in Paris from 1924 to 1940, Ellmann says nothing about them crossing paths.


[♬ Dolly's Brae]
[♬ Good-bye, Dolly Gray]


"chastenot coulter" ← 'Horse-chestnuts... Coulter'


FDV: "So who over comes ever for whoopee week must put up with the Jug and Chambers. But now! Housefather calls enthreateningly. Ansiosa looks in the pot. The coming man, the future woman the food that is to build — what he with fifteen years will do, the ring in her mouth of joyous guard, stars astir and stirabout. A plagueful for hirs, a saucy for hers. But one and two were never worth. So they must have their final. Now for La Bella Icy-la-Bella. For they are not on terms, they two, since their baffle of whatalose and will not be atoned at all while felixed is who culpas does and Brune is bad friendsch for Jour d'Anno. For she will walk out. And it must be with who? Elsethere is danger of solitude. Postreintroducing Jeremy." [frustratingly opaque!]


2DV: "So who over comes ever for whoopee week must put up with the Jug and Chambers. But heed! Our thirty minute's war's alull. All's quiet on the champs de Mai. Housefather calls enthreateningly. Annsighosa looks in her potstill to see if {at} the sop is sodden enough and to hear what {to} all the bubbles besaying. The coming man, the future woman the food that is to build — what he with fifteen years will do, the ring in her mouth of joyous guard, stars astir and stirabout. A plagueful for hirs, a saucy for hers. But one and two were never worth. So they must have their final since he's on parole. Et la pau' Leonie has the choice of her life between Josephinus and Mario-Lewis for who will too {is to} wear the lily of Bohemia, Floristan, Thaddeus, Hardress or Myles. Now for La Bella Icy-la-Bella. Child will be childs {Child will be wilds}. The campus calls them. Vamp, vamp, vamp the girls are merchand For they are not on terms, they twain, since their baffle of whatalose when Adam Leftus {Leftas} and the devil took our hindmost {gegifting her the painapple} and will not be atoned at all in this fight to no finish {that dark deed doer, this wellwilled wooer, Jerkoff and Eatsoup}, while felixed is who culpas does and harm's worth healing and Brune is bad friendsch for Jour d'Anno. Tiggers and tuggers they're all for tenzones. For she will walk out. And it must be with who? Elsethere is danger of solitude. Postreintroducing Jeremy. The flowing" [written 1930, very close to final text]



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