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| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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* '''roridus:''' (''Latin'') dewy → [[Mildew Lisa]] → "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red" – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | * '''roridus:''' (''Latin'') dewy → [[Mildew Lisa]] → "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red" – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | ||
Revision as of 01:08, 3 June 2008
- bad luck → worse bloody end → rory end
- roridus: (Latin) dewy → Mildew Lisa → "At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red" – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Rory, Ruaidhrí, Roderic: variants of an Irish name which means "red-haired"
- Rory O'Connor, or Ruaidhrí Ua Conchubair: High King of Ireland when Henry II came from the East; he was the last native King of Ireland, hence "Rory end"
- bloody end to the lie = no lie: Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver → hence, "rory end to the..." means "no end to the..." → the cyclical history of FW goes on and on
- nary an end: (Scots) never an end
- bloody end to the...: (Anglo-Irish) damn the..., to hell with the...
- gory: bloody → red
- Rosy: red (or pink)
- Roderic: the last Visigothic king of Spain
