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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Humpty Dumpty]
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* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' eponymous character in the popular Mother Goose nursey rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia]
  
* Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscapr, with his head  beneath [[Howth]] (''Da'' hoved: head) and his feet sticking up in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park Phoenix Park]
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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]]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park Wikipedia]
  
* tum-ti-tum: a reiterated strumming, as of a stringed instrument
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* '''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
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* '''t-t-t-toes''' → stuttering → [[HCE]] is a stutterer, like Parnell, his "hesitancy of speech" betraying his guilt
  
* tum, tummy: stomach
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* '''tum, tummy:''' stomach
  
* tumulus: a burial mound; a tomb
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* '''tumulus:''' a burial mound; a tomb
  
* tum → tomb → Grangegorman Military Cemetery, just outside of Phoenix Park(?)
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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]]

Latest revision as of 02:25, 27 October 2010

  • 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