Annoying

• annoy: to cause slight irritation to (another) by troublesome, often repeated acts
• annoy: to harass or disturb by repeated attacks
• implying that HCE's crime is one of harassing soldiers (homo)sexually
• a normal: Harris: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions II.608: (comment by Robert Ross concerning the father of Constance Wilde, Oscar's wife) 'The charge against Horatio Lloyd was of a normal kind. It was for exposing himself to nursemaids in the gardens of the Temple' (i.e. 'normal' as opposed to homosexual)
  • Quoted in Joyce’s notes as: 'It is not true that Pop was homosexual he had been arrested at the request of some nursemaids to whom he had temporarily exposed himself in the Temple gardens'