Casudas de Poulichinello Artahut

• The Fall of Pulchinella's bier → the whiskey falling on Tim Finnegan's deathbed

• casuda: (Occitan) fall, drop

• Pulchinella: (or Punchinello) a classical character that originated in the commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.

• poule: (French) hen. the name Pulchinella comes from the Italian pulcino (chick), referring to his long beak-like nose. Poule also refers to HCE's hen.

• Pulcinella's secret: (French) an open secret

• Punch: the English puppet version of Pulchinella. Punch vehaves outrageously, struggling with his wife and the Baby, and then triumphing in a series of encounters with the forces of law and order (and often the supernatural), interspersed with jokes and songs.

• artahut (late Latin) bier (artehut is a strange and rather obscure word).