Difference between revisions of "I saack"

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Isaac: Biblical character, the son of Sarah (see sair and solly) and the patriarch Abraham; in Hebrew "Isaac" means "God has laughed" (see Genesis 21:6), which echoes laffing two lines above
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

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-(so sair! so solly!) if yous ask me and I saack you.
+* '''I ask you'''
-This refers at least to Sarah and Isaac, the wife and child of the Biblical patriarch Abraham.  Sair = Sarah, Solly = Sally (diminuitive for Sarah), I saack = Isaac
+* '''Isaac:''' Biblical character, the son of Sarah (see [[sair]] and [[solly]]) and the patriarch Abraham; in Hebrew "Isaac" means "God has laughed" (see Genesis 21:6), which echoes [[laffing]] two lines above
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160225&q1=Isaac Third Census of Finnegans Wake]