Mistletropes
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- Ulysses 553.24: "Irish missile troops" → i.e. Irish infantry armed with rifles who fought for the British in the Boer War in South Africa
- heliotrope: a flowering plant associated in FW with Issy's Twenty-Eight schoolfriends (File:Ellipse.PNG)
- misanthrope: a person who hates or distrusts mankind/humanity.
- trope: a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; cliche if it becomes overused
