With his broad and hairy face

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  • With his broad and hairy face, to Ireland a disgrace: the sentiment and the rhythm recall Hosty's ballad in the second chapter
  • His father ... had a hairy face: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young man 1 → the quote comes at the beginning just after Once upon a time and a very good time it was
  • Makroprosopos: (Greek) the Great Face → in the Kabbalistic work Ha Idra Rabba Qadisha, this is God the Father as creator, from the strands of whose beard the whole world proceeds
  • hairy face: recalls Michael Finnegan's beard in the popular round: There was a man called Michael Finnegan, He grew whiskers on his chin-egan, The wind came along and blew them in-egan, Poor old Michael Finnegan beginagain, etc → compare beginagain with haltagain (see There from)


The comments in italics on the left hand side of the page are in the mocking style of Shem, while the comments in capitals at the right hand side of the page are in the pompous style of Shaun.