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| − | + | * '''celestial:''' heavenly | |
| − | + | * '''caeli:''' (''Latin'') heavens | |
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| + | *'''Ciel-scaling :''' climb to the sky, from the French 'Ciel' for sky. | ||
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| + | * '''escalating:''' ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity | ||
| + | ** '''celestial''' + '''escalating''' → escalating to the heavens → Jacob's Ladder (Genesis 28) → [[Page_26|FW 026]] [[Jacob's lettercrackers]] | ||
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| + | * '''escalator:''' a moving staircase | ||
| + | **New York’s Woolworth Building (→ [[waalworth]]) included escalators (a relatively new invention) as well as elevators | ||
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| + | * '''Caelestius:''' disciple of the heretic Pelagius; Pelagius may have been Irish | ||
| + | ** [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pelagius_%28Theologian%29 Pelagius] (11th Britannica, which was Joyce's source) | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0316&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''Coelestinus:''' regnal name of Pope Celestine I, who persecuted the Pelagians and sent Palladius to Ireland in 431 | ||
| + | ** [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Celestine_I Celestine I] (11th Britannica) | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0142&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Latest revision as of 22:19, 1 July 2020
- celestial: heavenly
- caeli: (Latin) heavens
- Ciel-scaling : climb to the sky, from the French 'Ciel' for sky.
- escalating: ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity
- celestial + escalating → escalating to the heavens → Jacob's Ladder (Genesis 28) → FW 026 Jacob's lettercrackers
- escalator: a moving staircase
- New York’s Woolworth Building (→ waalworth) included escalators (a relatively new invention) as well as elevators
- Caelestius: disciple of the heretic Pelagius; Pelagius may have been Irish
- Pelagius (11th Britannica, which was Joyce's source)
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Coelestinus: regnal name of Pope Celestine I, who persecuted the Pelagians and sent Palladius to Ireland in 431
- Celestine I (11th Britannica)
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
