Difference between revisions of "Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of"

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Beside the rivering waters of, hither & thither waters of → Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of
- A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of has somewhat common rhythmic structure with Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk

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 * '''Beside the rivering waters of, hither & thither waters of''' &rarr; '''Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of'''
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0140&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
-* '''Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk.'''
-** Cf. popular English nursery rhyme: ''Hickory, dickory, dock, / The mouse ran up the clock. / The clock struck one, / The mouse ran down, / Hickory, dickory, dock.''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock] Some reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith, in [[Dublin]] for a volume of nursery rhymes he was collecting[http://www.irishabroad.com/Travel/Features/dublins-literary-greats.asp]
 * '''hitherandthithering'''
 ** Cf. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/paym/paym.cgi?word=hither+and+thither A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]
+* '''Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of''' has somewhat common rhythmic structure with '''[[Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk]]'''