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  • ta-ta to you (dialect and hypocoristic) bye-bye to you!
  • The Book of Tea: written in English by Okakura Kakuzo and published in 1906; Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and describes how tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life → According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired Kakuzo's concept of das-in-der-Welt-sein ("to be in the being of the world") expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy, which Imamichi's teacher had offered to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before
  • titty: the maternal breastmilk
  • thea: (Greek) goddess
  • tea: plays an important role in FW; Joyce once noted that children's stories begin with "Once upon a time, and a very good time it was too" and end with "and they all sat down and had a cup of tea" → the
  • T (taw): (Hebrew) the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet occurs near the end of this paragraph, just as A (derived from aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet) occurs at the beginning