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* '''Brontosaurus''' + '''Ichthyosaurus:''' types of dinosaur → foreshadows the visit to the [[Wallinstone national museum]] between [[Page_8|FW 008.01]] – [[Page_10|010.23]], the extinct dinosaurs being humorously contrasted with the more recently deceased Duke of Wellington
  
This foreshadows the museum section on pages 8-10 (see "Wallinstone National" on page 8).
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* '''ithyphallic:''' used of representations of the erect penis in art, and meaning lascivious by extension (originally referring to the phalluses carried in parade during the festivals of Bacchus, from ''Greek'' ithus, "straight" + phallos, "phallus")
  
The ancient dinosaurs are humorously contrasted with the recent Lord Wellington.
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** An '''ithyphallic giant''' is cut into the turf at Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, England. (Cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_giant The Giant of Dorset at Wikipedia])
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** Osiris has an erect penis in the plate opposite page 88 of Moret's ''Rois et Dieux d'Egypte'' → [[see peegee ought he ought]] ([[Page_6|FW 006.32]])
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* '''ithyphallique:''' (''French'') designates poetry verses with three trochees → [[trochee]] ([[Page_7|FW 007.1]])
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* '''brontē (βροντη):''' (''Greek'') thunder → [[Page_3|FW 003.15]]
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* '''ichthys (ιχθυς):''' (''Greek'') fish → an early Christian acronym for Christ → [[Fush]]
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* '''ichthyal:''' fishlike
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* '''Brontë:''' a literary family of Irish extraction → the Brontë foliation which litters this paragraph with allusions may have been suggested by the identification of the micturating girls with Lillie Langtry ([[Page_30|FW 030.01:]] [[Lili O'Rangans]]), whose real name was Emily Charlotte Le ''Breton'' → ''[[Ulysses]]'' 703.02 ff: "Mrs Langtry the Jersey Lily the prince of Wales was in love with"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160127&q1=Bronte Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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[[Category:Thunder]]
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[[Category:Fishing]]

Latest revision as of 11:21, 29 June 2012

  • Brontosaurus + Ichthyosaurus: types of dinosaur → foreshadows the visit to the Wallinstone national museum between FW 008.01010.23, the extinct dinosaurs being humorously contrasted with the more recently deceased Duke of Wellington
  • ithyphallic: used of representations of the erect penis in art, and meaning lascivious by extension (originally referring to the phalluses carried in parade during the festivals of Bacchus, from Greek ithus, "straight" + phallos, "phallus")
  • ithyphallique: (French) designates poetry verses with three trochees → trochee (FW 007.1)


  • brontē (βροντη): (Greek) thunder → FW 003.15
  • ichthys (ιχθυς): (Greek) fish → an early Christian acronym for Christ → Fush
  • ichthyal: fishlike
  • Brontë: a literary family of Irish extraction → the Brontë foliation which litters this paragraph with allusions may have been suggested by the identification of the micturating girls with Lillie Langtry (FW 030.01: Lili O'Rangans), whose real name was Emily Charlotte Le BretonUlysses 703.02 ff: "Mrs Langtry the Jersey Lily the prince of Wales was in love with"