Pharce
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- Pharos: lighthouse at Alexandria; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Boulogne lighthouse, founded by Caligula, kept by St Patrick’s father Calpurnius
- cf. the allusion to the Danish beacon at Arklow in the previous paragraph: arclight
- HCE's bright red nose, sticking up above the flagpatch quilt (559.13) as he lies abed, resembles a lighthouse beacon
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
- F phare: lighthouse