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| − | *Swift's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Johnson Stella] & [[vanessy|Vanessa]] both had the name Esther | + | * Esthers: Swift's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Johnson Stella] & [[vanessy|Vanessa]] both had the name Esther; cf. letter, 15/11/26 to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] |
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| − | + | * Esther: eponymous character in the Biblical Book of Esther; like Swift's Stella & Vanessa, she is the subject of an older man's advances | |
| − | cf. stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find she was mushymushy, and wasn't that very both of them, the | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160175&q1=Esther Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
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| + | * sesthers: sisters | ||
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| + | * cf. FW 096.11 ff: "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!)" | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 12 June 2006
- Esthers: Swift's Stella & Vanessa both had the name Esther; cf. letter, 15/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Esther: eponymous character in the Biblical Book of Esther; like Swift's Stella & Vanessa, she is the subject of an older man's advances
- sesthers: sisters
- cf. FW 096.11 ff: "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!)"
