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* '''arc de ciel:''' (''French'') rainbow
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* '''Arklow:''' a town in County Wicklow
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** '''logi:''' (''Old Norse'') flame → Arklow was named after a Danish navigational beacon
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0252&isize=L&q1=Arklow A Finnegan Wakes Gazetteer]
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* '''arclamp'''
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* '''Ark-light:''' a light in Noah's Ark
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* '''light:''' a lamp in [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom? Or is the allusion to his bright red nose, the result of overindulgence in alcohol?
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* '''Berkeley:''' George Berkeley (pronounced ''barklee''), Irish philosopher and clergyman
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0117&isize=L&q1=Berkeley Third Census of Finnegans Wake]

Latest revision as of 01:22, 30 April 2009

  • arc de ciel: (French) rainbow
  • Arklow: a town in County Wicklow
  • arclamp
  • Ark-light: a light in Noah's Ark
  • light: a lamp in HCE's bedroom? Or is the allusion to his bright red nose, the result of overindulgence in alcohol?