Before we lump down upown our leatherbed
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Jump to navigationJump to search- before we take a siesta → mid-afternoon, one of the 5 set times of day when devout Muslims are obliged to pray → James S. Atherton (The Books at the Wake, pp.210-211) says that the five times are, in order, Midday, Mid-Afternoon, Sunset, Nightfall, and Pre-Dawn → if this is actually the third of these, it refers to the sunset prayer
- slump down
- lump down: to sit down heavily?
- upon
- Al Qu’ran, Sura 8: "ownership of leatherbeds"
- leatherbed → Mohammed slept on a leather mattress
- featherbed: a mattress stuffed with feathers
- Featherbed Mountain: a mountain in County Dublin
- Ulysses 049.32: "God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain."
- Ulysses 225.11: "Coming home it was a gorgeous winter’s night on the Featherbed Mountain."
- Ulysses 354.11: "After Glencree dinner that was when we drove home the featherbed mountain."
- Ulysses 701.22: "after the Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain"
