Blurry works

• blurry: indistinct to the sight → Joyce’s blurred vision

• slurry: thin mud or cement

• blurry works: Finnegans Wake

• Blurry works → cf. the four similar expressions in this passage:
  • Blubby wares upat Ublanium
  • Blurry works at Hurdlesford
  • Bloody wars in Ballyaughacleeaghbally
  • Blotty words for Dublin

• Ulysses 405.07: “Shut his blurry Dutch oven with a firm hand”