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| + | * '''in his toofarback for messuages''' → '''in his rushlit toofarback for messuages''' | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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* '''two-pair-back and passages:''' a standard rental unit in Dublin tenements, consisting of a single room at the back of a tenement on the second floor ("two pair" refers to the two flights of stairs one must climb in order to reach the apartment) and appropriate access | * '''two-pair-back and passages:''' a standard rental unit in Dublin tenements, consisting of a single room at the back of a tenement on the second floor ("two pair" refers to the two flights of stairs one must climb in order to reach the apartment) and appropriate access | ||
| − | ** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 308.08-09: "A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week" | + | ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 308.08-09:''' "A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week" |
| − | * ''''' | + | * '''farback:''' (''Dublin slang'') a house with two back rooms |
* '''messuage:''' a dwelling house plus the adjacent land and buildings | * '''messuage:''' a dwelling house plus the adjacent land and buildings | ||
| − | ** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 665.27: "the messuage to consist of ..." | + | ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 665.27:''' "the messuage to consist of ..." |
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| + | * '''too far back for messages''' → too far back in the past for messages to reach us today? → or too far back from the road to receive mail? | ||
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| + | *'''Too far back for massages:''' Too far gone (in the past or moraly) to be ameroriated /soothed. | ||
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| + | *'''back bacon and sausages''' on the theme of Jewish guilt / biblical condemnation of pork | ||
| − | * '''messages''' | + | * '''too far back for messages:''' living in pre-history, before falling into the cycle of birth and rebirth |
Latest revision as of 08:36, 1 June 2019
- in his toofarback for messuages → in his rushlit toofarback for messuages
- two-pair-back and passages: a standard rental unit in Dublin tenements, consisting of a single room at the back of a tenement on the second floor ("two pair" refers to the two flights of stairs one must climb in order to reach the apartment) and appropriate access
- Ulysses 308.08-09: "A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week"
- farback: (Dublin slang) a house with two back rooms
- messuage: a dwelling house plus the adjacent land and buildings
- Ulysses 665.27: "the messuage to consist of ..."
- too far back for messages → too far back in the past for messages to reach us today? → or too far back from the road to receive mail?
- Too far back for massages: Too far gone (in the past or moraly) to be ameroriated /soothed.
- back bacon and sausages on the theme of Jewish guilt / biblical condemnation of pork
- too far back for messages: living in pre-history, before falling into the cycle of birth and rebirth
