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* '''tautaulogically''' → in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''testamount to''' (i.e. ''tantamount to'' and ''testifies to'', with an overtone also of ''Testament'')
 
* '''tautaulogically''' → in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''testamount to''' (i.e. ''tantamount to'' and ''testifies to'', with an overtone also of ''Testament'')
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
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[[Category: Tauftauf]]

Revision as of 10:48, 28 July 2006

  • tautologically → a tautology is a logical statement that is trivially true (i.e. which can never be falsified), or a redundant or vacuous statement
  • t–t– → stuttering, which in FW is always a sign of HCE's guilt
  • Gk tau: nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter T → tautau = TT → Tee the tootal at 006.28