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| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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| + | * '''veni:''' (''Latin'') 1. I came; 2. come! (''imperative, singular'') | ||
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* '''venison''' → "The venison purveyor Jacob got the blessing meant for Esau" – Joyce in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | * '''venison''' → "The venison purveyor Jacob got the blessing meant for Esau" – Joyce in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | ||
Revision as of 08:01, 4 June 2008
- venisoon → venissoon
- veni: (Latin) 1. I came; 2. come! (imperative, singular)
- venison → "The venison purveyor Jacob got the blessing meant for Esau" – Joyce in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- venison: deer → St Patrick was transformed into a deer to protect him from the wrath of the High King Laoghaire when he lit the Paschal Fire on the Hill of Tara
- Vanessa: Jonathan Swift's name for Hester Vanhomrigh, one of his two mistresses.
- Venice
- Venus: Roman goddess of love, usually associated in FW with Issy
- venissoon after: very soon after
- After: (German) anus; ass, buttocks
