Ex nickylow malo comes mickelmassed bonum

• ex nihilo malo: (Latin) from nothing bad

• De nihilo nihilum: Persius, Satires 1.84: “Nothing can come out of nothing”

• ex nihilo nihil fit: (Latin) out of nothing comes nothing → Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)

• nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam: "Nothing can ever be created by divine power out of nothing", Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1:150 (see also lines 146-214)

• Old Nick → Shem

• nicky: (Czech) nulls, zeros, cyphers

• malum: (Latin) apple → Garden of Eden

• malo: (Russian) a little, few

• St Michael → Shaun

• mickle:' (Dialect) much

• amassed

• ex malo bonum fit: (Latin) out of evil good is made → Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver)

• mickelmassed → “Mickelmassed (Michael his conqueror = much heaped up)”: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver) → FW 003.07

• Michaelmas: 29 September

• micelmas: (Old English) multitude, size, bulk