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| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A | + | ** [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] |
* '''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]] | ||
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* '''Venice''' | * '''Venice''' | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0578&q1=Venice A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
* '''Venus:''' Roman goddess of love, usually associated in FW with [[Issy]] | * '''Venus:''' Roman goddess of love, usually associated in FW with [[Issy]] | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0578&q1=Venus A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
* '''veni:''' (''Latin'') 1. I came; 2. come! (''imperative, singular'') | * '''veni:''' (''Latin'') 1. I came; 2. come! (''imperative, singular'') | ||
Revision as of 14:36, 10 June 2008
- venisoon → venissoon
- venison → "The venison purveyor Jacob got the blessing meant for Esau" – Joyce in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Genesis 27:25: "And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank".
- 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
- veni: (Latin) 1. I came; 2. come! (imperative, singular)
- venissoon after: very soon after
- After: (German) anus; ass, buttocks
