Querfixing Gainsborough Carfax

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  • quer: (German) across, athwart; diagonally, obliquely → suggests the geometric construction of Kev and Dolph illustrated on FW 293
  • Thomas Gainsborough: British artist → the sixth in a list of seven scholars representing the Seven Liberal Arts of medieval scholarship → this element was omitted from Joyce's First and Second Drafts
  • carfax: (1) crossroads (2) an obsolete name for the Quadrivium (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, music, which are four of the Seven Liberal Arts of medieval scholarship)