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* '''Apocalypse:''' the Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible (the nam,e means "hidden away") | * '''Apocalypse:''' the Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible (the nam,e means "hidden away") | ||
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| + | *'''polyps of his back passages:''' polyps a medical condition that would likely be the cause of [[HCE]]'s incontinence. | ||
Revision as of 09:21, 20 December 2009
- collapse
- collapsus: (Latin) fallen in
- Colossus: the gigantic statue of Helios (or Apollo) at Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- colludere: (Latin) to play together; to collude → implying that HCE's fall may have been the result of collusion among his enemies → Ulysses, Chapter 16, Eumaeus, the sense or meaning of which, according to Joyce's Linati schema, was "The Ambush at Home", a reference to the intended ambush of Telemachus by the suitors in the Odyssey (Books 14-16)
- Calypso: the nymph in Greek mythology who detained Odysseus on the island of Ogygia for seven years; also the title of the fourth chapter of Ulysses
- Apocalypse: the Book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible (the nam,e means "hidden away")
- polyps of his back passages: polyps a medical condition that would likely be the cause of HCE's incontinence.
