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* '''Meade:''' the surname of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Clanwilliam | * '''Meade:''' the surname of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Clanwilliam | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0278&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0278&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''G. R. S. Mead:''' author of ''Thrice Great Hermes'' (James Atherton, ''The Books at the Wake'', p. 267, though it is hard to see what relevance he has here.) | ||
* '''Persians''' | * '''Persians''' | ||
Latest revision as of 08:54, 7 November 2010
- Upharsin: the writing on the wall, as recounted in Daniel 5:25-28: "And this is the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL, thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting; PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." → see also Many and Tieckle in this passage → compare this with the outwashed engravure that we used to be blurring on the blotchwall of his innkempt house (Page 13)
- kingdom
- Thingmote: the Viking place of public assembly in medieval Dublin → see thing mud a few lines above
- Medes
- mead: a meadow
- Meade: the surname of the Anglo-Irish Earls of Clanwilliam
- G. R. S. Mead: author of Thrice Great Hermes (James Atherton, The Books at the Wake, p. 267, though it is hard to see what relevance he has here.)
- Persians
- Richard Porson: English classical scholar, who is alleged to have said, Life is too short to learn German
- poor sons
- parsons
- for sin
