Past

• past: beside

• past: in the past, over with

• past: passed

• past Eve and → "pa stEvean, i.e. the death of Joyce's "pa" (John Stanislaus Joyce, died 29 December 1931) and the birth of his grandson "stEvean" (Stephen Joyce, born 15 February 1932), as joined together in Joyce's poem "Ecce Puer": "A child is sleeping: An old man gone"; so in a more general sense, the cycle of dying and being born again. (Observation made by Hugh Kenner and related by Brenda Maddox.)

• past Eve and Adam → Pa (Leopold Bloom), Stephen (Stephen Dedalus) and a dam (Molly Bloom)