Toofarback for messuages

• in his toofarback for messuages → in his rushlit toofarback for messuages
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• two-pair-back and passages: a standard rental unit in Dublin tenements, consisting of a single room at the back of a tenement on the second floor ("two pair" refers to the two flights of stairs one must climb in order to reach the apartment) and appropriate access
  • Ulysses 308.08-09: "A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week"

• farback: (Dublin slang) a house with two back rooms

• messuage: a dwelling house plus the adjacent land and buildings
  • Ulysses 665.27: "the messuage to consist of ..."

• too far back for messages → too far back in the past for messages to reach us today? → or too far back from the road to receive mail?

• Too far back for massages: Too far gone (in the past or moraly) to be ameroriated /soothed.

• back bacon and sausages on the theme of Jewish guilt / biblical condemnation of pork

• too far back for messages: living in pre-history, before falling into the cycle of birth and rebirth