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| − | + | * '''Humpty Dumpty:''' eponymous character in the popular Mother Goose nursey rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | |
| − | + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia] | |
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| − | + | * '''toes''' → Joyce's conception of Finn MacCool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscape, with his head beneath [[Howth]] (''Danish'' hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in [[Phoenix Park]] | |
| − | + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park Wikipedia] | |
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| − | + | * '''tum-ti-tum:''' a reiterated strumming, as of a stringed instrument | |
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| − | + | * '''t-t-t-toes''' → stuttering → [[HCE]] is a stutterer, like Parnell, his "hesitancy of speech" betraying his guilt | |
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| − | + | * '''tum, tummy:''' stomach | |
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| − | + | * '''tumulus:''' a burial mound; a tomb | |
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| − | + | * '''tum''' → tomb → the tomb of Isolde at Chapelizod? | |
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| − | + | * '''Atum, Temu, etc:''' various forms of the ancient Egyptian god who creates the world by masturbating on the primordial mud-heap → [[quest]] | |
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Latest revision as of 02:25, 27 October 2010
- Humpty Dumpty: eponymous character in the popular Mother Goose nursey rhyme → Humpty Dumpty
- toes → Joyce's conception of Finn MacCool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
- tum-ti-tum: a reiterated strumming, as of a stringed instrument
- t-t-t-toes → stuttering → HCE is a stutterer, like Parnell, his "hesitancy of speech" betraying his guilt
- tum, tummy: stomach
- tumulus: a burial mound; a tomb
- tum → tomb → the tomb of Isolde at Chapelizod?
- Atum, Temu, etc: various forms of the ancient Egyptian god who creates the world by masturbating on the primordial mud-heap → quest
