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Revision as of 14:29, 26 June 2012
- Phil the Fluther's Ball: (song) "To the toot of the flute and the twiddle of the fiddle, O"
- teetotal: abstaining totally from alcoholic drink → said to be coined by Richard Turner from the word total, which he pronounced with a stutter → in FW, stuttering is a sign of HCE's guilt
- tea [is] the total of the fluid
- T → used in some of Joyce's notes as a siglum for Tristan
- tee: to prepare, arrange
- tee: between
- twaddle: nonsense
- fuddled: drunk
- hang the twaddle of the fuddled = "damn the nonsense spouted by drunken people"
- two → in the song Finnegan's Wake, the riot which ensues during Tim's wake is precipitated by an altercation between two women, Biddy O'Brien and Maggy O'Connor → see deepbrow fundigs for more
- eau: (French) water → a teetotaller's drink
- O: Omega, the final letter of the Greek alphabet, signifying the end of another Viconian cycle → this paragraph and the preceding three constituted a Viconian cycle