Venissoon

• venisoon → venissoon
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• 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.
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Venice
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Venus: Roman goddess of love, usually associated in FW with Issy
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• venissoon after: very soon after

• After: (German) anus; ass, buttocks