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*'''back bacon and sausages''' on the theme of Jewish guilt / biblical condemnation of pork | *'''back bacon and sausages''' on the theme of Jewish guilt / biblical condemnation of pork | ||
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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
