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| − | * '''s-saw:''' ''saw'' pronounced with a stutter → | + | * '''He would see''' → '''until he seesaw''' |
| + | ** [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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| + | * '''s-saw:''' ''saw'' pronounced with a stutter, which in FW is indicative of [[HCE|HCE's]] guilt → cf. [[Stuttering]] and [[balbulous]] on this page | ||
* '''seesawed:''' swayed back and forth → went up and down (a ladder like a bricklayer) | * '''seesawed:''' swayed back and forth → went up and down (a ladder like a bricklayer) | ||
**Possibly unable to balance (because drunk)? | **Possibly unable to balance (because drunk)? | ||
| − | * '''see, saw:''' to see the present and past (perhaps at the moment of death?) → | + | * '''see, saw:''' to see the present and past (perhaps at the moment of death?) → cf. [[the future of his fates]] on this page |
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| + | * '''sewsaw:''' go back and forth with one's opinion; a piece of playground equipment - a wooden plank resting on a fulcrum that goes up and down | ||
Latest revision as of 10:37, 1 June 2019
- He would see → until he seesaw
- s-saw: saw pronounced with a stutter, which in FW is indicative of HCE's guilt → cf. Stuttering and balbulous on this page
- seesawed: swayed back and forth → went up and down (a ladder like a bricklayer)
- Possibly unable to balance (because drunk)?
- see, saw: to see the present and past (perhaps at the moment of death?) → cf. the future of his fates on this page
- sewsaw: go back and forth with one's opinion; a piece of playground equipment - a wooden plank resting on a fulcrum that goes up and down
