Nor had topsawyer's rocks

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  • Topsawyer's Rock: a formation on the Oconee River, the river on which Dublin, Georgia, in the USA, was founded
  • pun with the name Tom Sawyer, character in Mark Twain's book and friend of Huckleberry Finn. Tom is Shaun to Huck's Shem. Is Mark Twain, their literary father, HCE (like his namesake King Mark), or is he the combined Shem-Shaun Tristan character (as his surname suggests: Twain = two, twin, both)?
    • Tom Sawyer → St Thomas à Becket, contrasted with St Lawrence O'Toole (003.08)
  • A top sawyer stands above a saw pit (i.e., above the pit sawyer).
  • rocks: slang for testicles
    • Ulysses 062.13: "O, rocks! she [Molly] said."
  • Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 5: the naive David is bilked out of half a pint of ale by a dishonest waiter who tells him that "a stout gentleman, by the name of Topsawyer" died the previous day after drinking a glass of ale!
  • Peter Sawyer: Dublin exile; supposed founder of Dublin, Georgia (actually it was a Jonathan Sawyer who founded the city)
    • Peter: from the Greek, πετρος, "rock" → "Thou art Peter and upon this rock I shall build my church"