Mishe mishe

• I mise: I, me (emphatic); I am.
  • Exodus 3.4: Mosheh, Mosheh ("Moses, Moses!"), words spoken by Yahweh to Moses from the burning bush
  • Exodus 3.14: "I am that I am", words spoken by Yahweh to Moses from the burning bush
  • early lives of St Patrick said that he resembled Moses in four ways
  • Heb Mosheh: Moses → said to mean "drawn out of the waters"

• mishe mishe to tauftauf: reminiscent of a walky-talky message, as though Issy and HCE are communicating with one another via the chimney flue

• "Mirror, Mirror!": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Issy is always accompanied by her Venus mirror

• G mischen: to mix

• ECHoes:
  • "a tofftoff for thee, missymissy for me" (Page 65 31)
  • "stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find she was mushymushy, and wasn't that very both of them, the sauciscissters ... (peep!) ... (peepette!)" (Page 96 11 ff.)
  • "michemiche (Page 117 11)
  • "My name is Misha Misha but call me Toffey Tough" (Page 249 29)
  • "Miss Mishy Mushy is tiptupt by Toft Taft" (Page 277 10-11)
  • "mushe, mushe" (Page 505 20)
  • "messy messy to look after our douche douche"" (Page 605 02)