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| − | * '''false voice of haycup''' &rarr '''false voice of ja''' → '''false voice of jiccup''' → '''strawng voice of false jiccup''' | + | * '''false voice of haycup''' → '''false voice of ja''' → '''false voice of jiccup''' → '''strawng voice of false jiccup''' |
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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* '''hiccup''' → a sign of Jacob's guilt, like [[HCE|HCE's]] stutter? | * '''hiccup''' → a sign of Jacob's guilt, like [[HCE|HCE's]] stutter? | ||
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| + | * '''T.S. Eliot, ''The Hollow Men'', lines 1-11:''' "We are the hollow men/ We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together/ Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!/ Our dried voices, when/ We whisper together/ Are quiet and meaningless/ As wind in dry grass/ Or rats' feet over broken glass/ In our dry cellar" | ||
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| + | * '''jiccup''' → Jacob + hiccup | ||
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| + | *"The "ng" in "Strawng" may also be considered as an abbreviation for Noble Gas. Compare with "hayair". | ||
Latest revision as of 14:26, 28 February 2013
- false voice of haycup → false voice of ja → false voice of jiccup → strawng voice of false jiccup
- straw: ironic reply when someone protests, "Hey!" → contrasted with hay → hayair
- Genesis 27.22: "The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." → FW 003.10-11
- hiccup → a sign of Jacob's guilt, like HCE's stutter?
- T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, lines 1-11: "We are the hollow men/ We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together/ Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!/ Our dried voices, when/ We whisper together/ Are quiet and meaningless/ As wind in dry grass/ Or rats' feet over broken glass/ In our dry cellar"
- jiccup → Jacob + hiccup
- "The "ng" in "Strawng" may also be considered as an abbreviation for Noble Gas. Compare with "hayair".
