Difference between revisions of "You gave me a boot"

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*'''You gave me the boot:''' you got rid of (fired) me
 
*'''You gave me the boot:''' you got rid of (fired) me
  
* '''You gave me a boot:''' (T.S. Eliot was the bearer of an embarrassing parcel of old shoes from Pound to Joyce, as related in Ellmann: ''James Joyce'', 493) → [[Waste]] in line above
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* '''You gave me a boot:''' T.S. Eliot was the bearer of an embarrassing parcel of old shoes from Pound to Joyce (as related in Ellmann: ''James Joyce'', 493) → [[Waste]] in line above, "quid" (that is, Pound) in the line below. This reference is repeated at least twice more:
 
**→ [[smoothpick waste papish pastures,]] + [[foottreats]] (p. 141)
 
**→ [[smoothpick waste papish pastures,]] + [[foottreats]] (p. 141)
**→ [[waste(151)|waste]] + [[overpast boots]] (p. 151)
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**→ [[waste(151)|waste]] + [[overpast boots]] + [[expounding]] (p. 151)

Latest revision as of 00:29, 17 January 2020

  • You gave me a boot: in Ulysses Stephen Dedalus wears boots he borrowed from Buck Mulligan
  • You gave me the boot: you got rid of (fired) me