Contents

Sources

• Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake
• Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake
• Combined Lexicon and Occasional Summaries from Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com) and Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake 

100 Words

[Note: My speculation will always appear in brackets so that you can easily ignore it.]

Sources

Pages 96.02 [Beginning of Sentence] -97.02 [End of Sentence]

Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake

An explanation of the text is followed by bracketed comments from Campbell and Robinson: “And then about the old House by Chapelizod; Lillytrilly and Mrs. Niall of the Nine Corsages, ²⁴ the old markkiss, their besterfather, and dear Sir Armoury, and all the goings on, so very wrong, so long ago, while the four were on retreat under Father Whisperer. And then about his bold advances, and the two saucy sisters – peep! {Suddenly the four break into an argument:} “You’re a liar, excuse me,” says one. “I will not and you’re another,” says the second. And long, Lally Tompkins, holding their breach of peace for them, bidding them to give and to take, and all will be forgotten. {Whereupon they make up again with a handshake and another drink.} It was too bad to be falling out about her kindness and about the shape of OOOOOOOOOurang’s time. “Well, all right, Lally. And shake a hand. And poor us out another. For Christ’s sake. Amen.”

{That concludes the whole affair of the early life and death of HCE…. All might be said to be over. Every theme of Finnegans Wake has been sounded. Yet the dream cycle has hardly begun; HCE has hardly opened his career. No sooner have those in his week become reconciled to his departure, then the news is out that he has disappeared from his grave, and is at large, and may be anywhere. In numerable and highly confused reports describe his resurrection.

This opens to scholarship a new end, exceedingly difficult problem: what became of HCE?}

Well? [Campbell and Robinson continue]

Such evidence, as we have been able to gather may not be dependable. It may not bring the truth to light, as fortuitously as an astronomer’s calculation might reveal a hitherto unknown planet in the heavens, or as all the languages of the world have evolved from the root of some funner’s stotter.²⁵ Yet soundest sense now holds that by playing ‘possum our sacred ancestor saved his brush with his posterity. His escape was like that of a fox (Campbell and Robinson 91-92).

²⁴ Niall of the Nine Hostages, hero of the Irish cycles.

²⁵ Vico would have all languages evolve from the attempts of the patriarchs to name the Thunderer. All the rumor and action of Finnigans Wake develops from the stuttering of HCE in the park encounter.

William York Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake

Tindall’s Reader’s Guide connects the previous pages with our current page. He says, (94.23-96.24.”With ‘meeting waters,’ Tom Moore joins Stella and Vanessa). During these reminiscences, they break into song for ‘all rogues lean to rhyme.’ Earwicker, a greater rogue, has fallen for those trickling girls, but without his fall, there could be no Wake; for ‘the sibspeeches of all mankind have foliated…from the root of some funner’s stotter’ (96.30-31).

By a sudden metamorphosis, not surprising, and a dream, your wicker becomes a fox pursued by the hunt, ‘keen. For the worry.’Illusions to the beast, epic of Raynor, the Fox…” (Tindall 92).

[Endnotes]

96.13-14 “Peepette” in connection with “saucissters” refers to The Journal to Stella.“Peepette” is “ppt” (or poppet) in Swift’s “little language,” modified by Joyce to include peeping and peeing. Cf. “tapette…pettest,” 79-23. Like H.C.E. At this point, Swift is an old man with two girls (Tindall 96].

Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com)

and

Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake [Entries below introduced by line numbers “l n.nn” and italicized]

96.02

l.2 some fellow’s; rose
Sunfella’s = sunflower – the heliotrope; preson of resplendent beauty
rhinoceritis = rhinocerot’s nose – Used as a descriptive of a sneer + rhinoceritis (l) – inflammation of a nose-horn.
roe = a small species of deer

l.3 pr All roads lead to Rome; contradicting
rogue = a rascal + roads
lean = to incline or tend in thought, affection, or conduct + lead
rhyme = verse marked by consonance of the terminal sounds + Rome

l.4 N Lille Trille laa paa en hylie (nursery rhyme eq. to Humpty Dumpty); Niall of the Nine Hostages: Ir High King
pon = upon
hilly = characterized by hills; abounding in hills + Norwegian: Lille Trille laa paa en hylle (nursery rhyme similar to Humpty Dumpty).
Nial (or Niall) of the Nine Hostages = father of Leary, ruled Ireland in the 4th century, raided Britain, was deserted by his own men and conquered by the Romans. A later Nial was perhaps slain by Hamlet.

l.5 King Mark; marquis; Da far: father
corsage = a bodice
markiss = marquis
besterfar = bestefar (Norwegian) – grandfather
arrah = exp. of surprise or excitement

Reduplication is an alleged trait of Hiberno-English strongly associated with stage-Irish and Hollywood films (to be sure, to be sure). It is virtually never used in reality.ar bith corresponds to English at all, so the stronger ar chor ar bith gives rise to the form at all at all (‘I’ve no money at all at all’).

l.7 Sir Amory Tristram: 1st Earl of Howth
armoury = armour collectively; an armed force; the workshop of an armourer

churpelizod = house by the churchyard – Church House, Chapelizod [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: The House by the Churchyard] + churpe – chirp + [Isolde’s Chapel]

l.9 Da gammeldags: old-fashioned
retreat = Eccl. A period of complete seclusion devoted to religious exercises.
gammeldags (Danish) = old-fashioned + gammel (Danish) – old, ancient.

l.10 Milltown Park, D: Jesuit house of studies (Milton’s house is paradise)
Milton’s Park = MILLTOWN – Former village, now residential district, South Dublin, in the Clonskeagh area. Milltown Park is not a recreation ground but a Jesuit house of studies in Sandford Road + Milton, John (1608-74) – English poet, author of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained. Milton was not just a poet, but also a politician, secretary to Cromwell, who was beastly to Ireland. Milton was a blind poet, like Homer.

languish = the action or state of languishing (to grow weak, faint, or feeble; to droop in spirits; to pine with love, grief, or the like) + James Joyce: Ulysses.5.261: ‘Language of flowers’.

l.13 bad
Saucicissters = saucisse (French, Slang) – whore
a dearbhrathairin og mo chroidhe (a drahirin og mukhri) (gael) – O young little brother of my heart! + song Draherin O Machree (Anglo-Irish) – Dear Little Brother of My Heart + machree – my dear.

l.14 Moor: s The Meeting of the Waters; Swift: ‘Ppt’
Meeting waters = to make water – to urinate + Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song The Meeting of the Waters.
peepette = urinate

miman = maman (fr) – mummy

l.16 Ulster, Munster, Leinster & Connacht (the 4 provinces of Ireland) [used her, mused her, licksed her and cuddled.]
farmer = one who cultivates a farm, whether as tenant or owner; the eldest son of the occupier of a farm (dial.); an ignorant rustic, a stupid or gauche person.
groom = a servant who attends to horses; a bridegroom
mused = muse – to gaze meditatively

lully = the kidney (of a cow)
breach of the peace = breach of promise – the breaking of engagement

lolly = hard candy
to give and take = to yield partialy to demands of others (and obtain satisfactory agreement); to exchange repartee, blows, etc.
pasht = paist (pasht) (gael) – spirit + past

l. 22 s ‘…We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet for the sake of Auld Lang Syne’
kindness = affection, love + song Auld Lang Syne: ‘We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet for the sake of Auld Lang Syne’.
pet = any person who is fondled, or treated with special kindness or favour; a darling, favourite.

orang (Malay) = man
lelly = leally (loyally, truly)

l.24 G schenk uns mehr: pour us more, give us more; I An Seanchas Mór:corpus of early Ir. law ‘ The Great Register’; Succat: St Patrick’s baptismal name; so be it
schenkusmore = An Seanchas Mor (un shanekus mor) (gael) – The Great Register, corpus of early Irish law + schenk uns mehr (ger) – pour us more, give us more.
craig = crag
be it suck = be it that – to be the case or the fact + [lolly]

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FDV: Even should not the framing [up] of such fictions [in the evidential order] bring any truth to light [in good time] as fortuitously as some false setting of a starchart might [(heaven aiding)] reveal the presence of an unknown being in space chaos of space The best soundest opinion now holds that by so playing possum our highest common ancestor most effectually saved his brush. Dogs of all breeds were speaking with various marked provincial accents, hot to run him on a scent breasthigh, but from the good day he last was viewed pointing for home in his 7mile [rolltop] boots a deaf fox’s wisdom kept him safe in covert miraculously ravenfed & sustained by the clotted creamclotted sherriness of cinnamon syllabub. Preserving perseverance in the reeducation of his intestines was the his the best rebuttal whereby he got the big bulge on all the crowd of spasoakers in that one street town. Vainly virulence, violence, & vituperation sought wellnigh utterly to end the reign of the great shipping mogul and linen lord; it was one more dearer than all who was to make him a the nine days’ jeer for the lounge lizards of the pumproom.
frame up – to devise falsely (as a criminal charge against an inocent man) [(notebook 1922-23): ‘frame up’].

evidential = of or pertaining to evidence

dim = obscure, not clear to the mind or understanding
starchart = star chart – a chart showing the positions of the stars + (notebook 1922-23): ‘false setting of starmap discover new star’.

l.30 Da forhøre: examine; subspecies; sib:amity, clan, family; Vico says mankind’s first words were onomatopoeic
forehear = to hear beforehand

l.31` G stotter: stutter
stotter = error, slip, blunder; to stumble, stagger + Henrik Ibsen: Samfundets Støtter (Pillars of Society).

l.32 amongst; mental specialists; St. Augustine, ‘Securus iudicat orbis terrarum’ (‘ The verdict of the world is secure’)- the phrase influenced Newman (cf. Apologia)
mentalist = an advocate of mentalism (doctrine that mind is the fundamental reality); a mind reader or fortune teller.
securus iudicat orbis terrarum (l) = free from care, the circle of the lands judges; i.e. untroubled, the world judges (St. Augustine) + securus (l) – peaceful + iudico (l) – judge + orbis (l) – circle + terra (l) – earth.
play possum = to feign ignorance, to pretend to be asleep or dead, to feign or pretend illness + (notebook 1922-23): ‘saves his brush play ‘possum”.

l.33 Gr hahios: saintly; HCE; Gr kurios:lord; brush: fox’s tail
hagio (gr) = holy
curious = exciting curiosity, somewhat surprising, strange, singular, odd; queer.
brush = a quick light touch or momentary contact, a brief encounter; a girl, a young woman; a bushy tail (the brush of a fox) + Quarterly Review Oct 1922, 268: ‘Reynard the Fox’: ‘saves his brush, but it is not likely that… he acts with deliberate intent… the promptings of instinct, of which the most notable example is the trick of ‘playing possum”.

l.35 hairs; tailsie: in Scottish Law, the limitation of a freehold estate to a person & his heirs
posterity = the descendants collectively of any person, all who have proceeded from a common ancestor.
coparcenor = coparcener – a joint heir
tailsie = heir in tail (Sc. of entail, of tailsie) – the person who succeeds or is entitled to succeed to an entailed estate by virtue of the deed of entail (the settlement of the succession of a landed estate, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by any one possessor; a predetermined order of succession).

l.36 the pope’s address: ‘Urbi et Orbi’ (‘the City & the World’)
gundog – a dog trained to accompany the ‘guns’ (hunters) + FDV: Dogs of all breeds were speaking with various marked provincial accents, hot to run him on a scent breasthigh, but from the good day he last was viewed pointing for home in his 7mile [rolltop] boots a deaf fox’s wisdom kept him safe in covert miraculously ravenfed & sustained by the clotted creamclotted sherriness of cinnamon syllabub.
beagling = beagle – to hunt game with a beagle + (notebook 1922-23): ‘dog was speaking’.renounce – announce, declare, proclaim
urbiandorbic =urbi et orbi – to the city (of Rome) and to the world. Also transf., for general information or acceptance; to everyone.

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bugle = a hunting-horn, originally made of the horn of a ‘bugle’ or wild ox; to sound a bugle.
run = to rush at a person with hostile intention, to make an attack on + (notebook 1922-23): ‘ran him’ + Quarterly Review Oct 1922, 271: ‘Reynard the Fox’: ‘in the early summer greyhounds can seldom be induced to attack a she-wolf. They will run her readily, but never hurt her when overtaken’.
breasthigh = breast high scent – a scent so strong that dogs course heads up + (notebook 1922-23): ‘hounds find scent is breasthigh’.+ [breast thigh]

l.2 quarry
worry = the act of biting and shaking an animal so as to injure or kill it (properly of hounds when they seize their quarry) + (notebook 1922-23): ‘the worry’.

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100 Words: A few words about the personal exploration of this month’s text 

[These entries are somewhat random, thoughts that arise from reading the text and brief research about the page. These are hardly intended to be academic criticism.]

[ Let’s turn our trumpets to the strumpets. While the two girls in Phoenix Park might deserve that insult, Swift’s Stella and the girl he called Vanessa do not. In “Cadenus and Vanessa” Swift makes himself CADenus. The Dean certainly treated both women in the fashion of a cad. Joyce may have had that in mind when planting Swift’s women in the Wake’s shifting roles. That would appeal to Joyce who tells of pursuing a young pupil in Giacomo Joyce.” Whether Joyce pursued one student or three, remains a mystery, but Familyman Jim enjoyed the idea of a too-young tryst. Neither Swift nor Joyce expected his poem to be published, but Joyce returned to the theme of romantic double-teaming in the Sirens episode of Ulysses. There Misses Douce and Kennedy are ignored by old, bald, deaf Pat. Pat is ugly as Swift and equally indifferent to the girls’ cries for attention.]

Contents

Sources

• Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake
• Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake
• Combined Lexicon and Occasional Summaries from Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com) and Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake 

100 Words

[Note: My speculation will always appear in brackets so that you can easily ignore it.]

Sources

Pages 92.33 [Beginning of Paragraph] -94.03 [End of Paragraph]

Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake

Campbell and Robinson interpret: The four judges  [the For Old Men]  lay their wigs together and promulgated (93) their standing verdict of Nolan’s Brumans, ¹⁵ whereonafter King left the tribunal scott – free. His opposite stank briefs with the war cry, “Shun the Punman!” safely and soundly soccered that Poser all the way home to Drinkbottle’s Dwellings, where (as timid as your true Venus’ son, Esau) He shut himself away (like the lion in your zoo) while the girlies shouted insults through the door ¹⁶ (Campbell and Robinson 89). 

¹⁵ Nolens volens (“against one’s will”) transformed by contamination with Nolan Bruno.
¹⁶ Shem formula.

William York Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake

Tindall analyzes: Distracted by disorder in the court, the for “justicers,” Ulster, Munster, Pontius, and Pilate, lay their wigs together and arrive at a verdict of “Nolans Brumans”— the only possible verdict, since Bruno’s system has mixed things up. Leaving the court, “scotfree” (the Scottish verdict of “not proven”). King that “firewaterloover” (opposites joined in a Waterloo), receives the abuse of the twenty-eight “advocatesses,” who, in love with Shaun, the Post, cry, “Shun the Punman!” Festy King, with his Shem–side out, has become the author of Finnegans Wake, where he “murdered all the English he knew.” “The chassetitties belles,” like the general public, condemn this “Parish Poser,” who, like Joyce in Paris, a refugee from his parish, wrote all this garbage abaht our Farvver”— about H.C.E.  “You and your gift of your gaft… Hon!… Putor! Skam!” Seven words in seven languages confirm the shame of “Shames” Joyce (92.33- 93.21), who’s self–exposure is no less ignoble (Tindall 90).

Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com)

and

Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake [Entries below introduced by line numbers “l n.nn” and italicized]

Page 92.33

[And whereas] Distracted by [(for was not just this, [in effect,] which had just caused that the effect of that which it had caused to occur)] The four judges Unchus Uncius Munchus Muntius, Punchus and Pylax put their wigs together but could do no more than pass the usual sentence of Nolans Brumans & King having murdered all the English he knew left his court tribunal scotfree trailing his tunic in his hurry [& [thereinunder] proudly showing off the [blank] patch on to his britgits]. On To the Swiss bobbyguard’s curial but courtly courtlike: Commodore valley O hairy Arthery Arthre jennyrosy?: the firewaterloover replied returted with such a vinesmelling fortytudor ages rowdawnham rawdownhams tanyouhide that all the twofromthirty advocatesses within echo pulling up their briefs soc- pa- jus simply & safely & soundly soccered him imprumptu umprumptu rightaway like hames to Drinkbottle Dingy Dwellings like the muddy goalbird who he was, conclaiming: Hon! Verg! Putor! Nan! Putor! Sham! Shams! Shames!
distracted – mentally drawn to different objects; perplexed or confused by conflicting interests; torn or disordered by dissension or the like; much confused or troubled in mind.
justice  =  judge
laid their wigs together = Put their heads together – to have discussions together
Unitus = unctus (l) – anointed, oiled
Muncius = munitus (l) – fortified, safe + mun (mun) (gael) – urine.

Punchus and Pylax = Pontius Pilatus (l) – governor of Judaea in time of Christ + phylax (gr) – a guard.
promulgate – to proclaim

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l.93.01 nolens volens: willing or unwilling; Bruno of Nola

[murdered all the English he knew = the language as well as the people]
standing = that continues in existence or operation that continues to be (what the noun specifies); that does not pass away.
Nolens = nolens (l) – being unwilling + nolens volens (l) – willing or unwilling.
Brumens = bruma (l) – winter, midwinter + [Giordano Bruno of Nola] + [Brewman]
picked out = pick out – to take out by picking

l. 3 Da tomme lummer: empty pockets
tribunal = a court of justice; a judicial assembly
scotfree – exempt from injury, punishment, etc.
Tommeylommey’s = tomme lommer (Danish) – empty pockets
tunic – a garment resembling a shirt or gown, worn by both sexes among the Greeks and Romans; In modern costume. A close, usually plain body-coat.

l. 4 blind; Patrick; black patch
therein under – after, before, below in that document, statute, etc.
show off = to display with ostentation or pride
pitch = patch

l. 5 Brigid
britgits = [British britches, pants]
an’t = ain’t
plase = plase (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) – please
rael = (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) real
genteel = a genteel person; a gentleman (obs.)

l.6 The Curia: Papal Court; cf. Papal Swiss bodyguard; L. Qumodo vales hodie, Arator generose?: How fares your health today, noble gentleman?
Switz = Swiss – native to, or coming from, Switzerland + The Swiss Guard are the Pope’s own troops.
bobbyguard’s = bobby – policeman +  bodyguard – a guard for the person (esp. of a sovereign or dignitary); a retinue or escort.
curial = of or pertaining to a royal court, courtly + The Curia (Lat, “court”) Romana comprises the administrative and judicial institutions of the Roman Catholic Church.
courtlike = elegant, courtly

Commodore = ccommodo valeo (l) – I am seasonably well + quomodo valeo (l) – how I am well, how am I well + commodo (l) – seasonably, in time + quomodo (l) – how? + vale (l) – be well + valeo (l) – I am strong, I am well + Quomodo vales hodie, Arator generose? (l) – How fares your health today, noble gentleman? (Motif: How are you today, my dark/fair sir?).

l.7 Waterloo
hairy = heri (l) – yesterday + O’Hara
firewater – strong alcoholic beverage

l. 8 Motto of the House of Savoy: Fortitudo eius Rhodum tenuit (His Strength Has Held Rhodes); acronym FART; Li raudonas: red
rawdownhams = raudonas (Lithuanian) – red + Rhodanum (l) – the Rhône river.

l. 9 Latin; latten:brasslike alloy, used for crosses; Thomas Aquinas
latten stomach even of a tumass equinous = [Latin stomach of the corpulent…] + tumass equinous = Thomas Aquinas

clap clap = the sharp sound, applause + cap – head.

gush gash from a burner = gush (Slang) – smell +
gash = gas+ burner – the part of lamp or other fluid burning device where the flame is produced + Gas from a burner. [Trieste]: s.n., 1912. Joyce had this broadside printed in Trieste, where he was living at the time, and sent it to his brother Charles to distribute in Dublin. It is a highly personal attack on the publisher who refused to print Dubliners + REFERENCE

twofromthirty advocatesses = [28 (the number of Issy’s attending lunar handmaids)] + advocatess – a female advocate
brief – a formal or official letter, concise statement of a client’s case made for instruction of counsel in a trial at law. + [undergarments]

l. 13 G Krieg: war; Shem the Penman; ‘Jim the Penman’: James Townsend Savard, forger 
krigkry = (ger) war
shun = to shove, push + [dismiss, avoid]
soccer = the game of football as played under Association rules

l. 14 parish priest; Paris; impromptu
Poser = one who poses (to assume a certain attitude)
umprumptu = poser – one who poses (to assume a certain attitude)
rightoway = rightaway – at once, immediately, straightaway

l. 15 Angl makes a hames of:make a mess of; home; Gratiasagam: nickname for St. Patrick from his Gratias agamus reiteration in the Mass (‘let us give thanks’)
hame = home + make a hames of (Anglo-Irish) – make a mess of.
gratiasagam = gratias agamus (l) – let us give thanks + (notebook 1924): ‘Gratzagam’ → gratiasagam (grot’esogum) (gael) – nickname for St. Patrick, from his reiteration of Latin gratias agamus (when King Daire presented Saint Patrick with the gift of a cauldron, the latter is said, according to the former’s retelling, to have answered ‘Gratzacham’ as thanks, from Latin Gratias agamus: Let us give thanks).

l. 16 inkbottle
donatrices (l) = pl. of donatrix (a female donor or donator)
biss = viz – videlicet + [buss or bliss]

l. 17 Venus’ son Aeneas; venison purvey or Jacob; Robinson Crusoe [?]
venuson… dovetimid = [allusion to Aeneas] son of Venus (and Anchises). Doves are associated with Venus (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
Esau – brother of Jacob, who sold his birthright (for a ‘mess of pottage’); one that sacrifices permanent for immediate temporary interest. When Isaac was old and blind, he sent Esau to hunt and bring him venison. On Rebecca’s advice, Jacob (a smooth man) put on a goatskin and carried venison to his father, who said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
dear – dear one, darling + phrase timid as a deer.

Bottome = at bottom – in reality + bottom – the sitting part of a man, the posteriors + William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream I.2.75: ‘BOTTOM:… I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove’.

l. 19 dun:fort; chastity belt; L conclamo: cry out together
chasse = chasser (French Slang) – to flirt
conclaiming = conclamo (l) – to cry together; to call to arms

l. 20 ph gift of the gab; Da farver:colours; It gridando: shouting
gift of your gaft = gift of the gab – a talent for speaking, fluency of speech
Farvver = farver (Danish) – colours
gridando = (it) shouting

l. 21 F honte: shame; It vergogna: shame; L. pudor:shame; putor: foul smell; Da skam: shame; G Scham: shame
Hon = hon – sweetheart, dear; honourable + honte (fr) – shame.
Verge = verge (fr. slang) – penis + vergogna! (it) – shame!
Nau = naire (nare) (gael) – shame
Putor = putor – foul smell, stench + pudor (l) – shame.
Skam = skam (Danish) – shame

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l. 22 The Four Ends of Life: artha (success), kāma (pleasure), dharma (duty) & moksha (enlightenment); Skt kavya: poet
artha = (hind.) wealth or property; the pursuit of wealth (one of four traditional aims in life).
kama = (hind.) pleasure and love
dharma = (hind.) moral law, justice, righteousness, ideal truth, nature
moksa = (hind.) salvation of finite existence
kavya = poetic composition in Sanskrit

l. 23 plaintiffs
kay = key
plaint = audible expression of sorrow, lamentation

l. 24 Angl plausy: flattery; U.5 ‘Thallata! Thalatta!’ (in Xenophon’s Anabasis, the cry of the Ten Thousand on sighting the sea); the sooner the better; sweeten bitter
plause – applause + plausy (Anglo-Irish) – flattery (from Anglo-Irish plás).
litter = odds and ends + litir (lit’ir) (gael) – letter + letter
soother the bitther = sooner the better

eyebrow pencilled = eyebrow pencil – a kind of crayon or pencil-like stick of colouring matter, for tinting the eye-brows, eyelashes, or lips, for theatrical or cosmetic purposes.
lipstipple penned =lipstick + stipple – the method of painting, engraving, etc. by means of dots or small spots, so as to produce gradations of tone. +penned – written (with a pen)
Borrowing = borrow – to make temporary use of (words, idioms, etc.) from a foreign language or people.

l. 26 thunder

l. 27 Mangan: ‘ O my dark Rosaleen, do not sigh, do not weep!’
begging the question = beg the question – to fail to deal with or answer effectively the point that is being discussed.
stealing tinder = steal one’s thunder – to adapt for one’s own ends something effective + tinder – fire; a spark.
dark Rosa Lane = Rosaleen, Dark – personification of Ireland, like Poor Old Woman, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, etc. Mangan’s poem begins, “My dark Rosaleen, do not sigh, do not weep…”

l. 28 Moore: s Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye; s Kevin Barry; s The Arrow & the Song; ‘There is a green island in lone Gougane Barra Where Allua of songs rushes forth like an arrow
Loosha = louche (fr) – squint
the beam in one’s eye = a blemish as palpable as a house beam + Thomas Moore: song Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye.
lone = solitary, lonesome
Coogan Barry, his arrow of song = J. J. Callanan’s poem, “Gougane Barra” (‘There is a green island in lone Gougane Barra / Where Allua of songs rushes forth like an arrow’) + Barry, Kevin (1902-20) – the first Republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an IRA operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. A ballad bearing his name, relating the story of his execution, is popular to this day + song The Arrow and the Song.

Sean Kelly’s anagram = anagram – a transposition of the letters of a word, name, or phrase, whereby a new word or phrase is formed + Ingram, John Kells (1823-1907) – Irish poet, author of “The Memory of the Dead,” which begins: “Who fears to speak of ‘ 98?/Who blushes at the name?”

l. 30 John Kells Ingram: s The Memory of the Dead: ‘…who blushes at the name’; T. D. Sullivan: s God Save Ireland [Tramp, Tramp, Tramp]
Sullivan = Sullivan, T. D. – wrote “God Save Ireland,” sung to the tune of “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” Joyce may confuse him with his brother, A. M. Sullivan, also a verifier.

l. 31 Dufferin: s Lament of the Irish Emigrant (I’m Sitting on the Stile, Mary’; s Kathleen Mavourneen ‘ It mat for years & it may be forever’John Philpot Curran: s Acushla Machree
Dufferin = Dufferin, Lady (1807-67) – R. B. Sheridan’s granddaughter, author of Lament of the Irish Emigrant, which begins: ‘I am sitting on
the stile, Mary.’)
Kathleen May Vernon = Kathleen Mavourneen – in the song “Kathleen Mavourneen”: “It may be for years and it may be forever. . .” + mavourneen (Anglo-Irish) – my darling.
Mebbe = maybe
Curran his scotchlove machreether = Curran, John Philpot (1750-1817) – Irish lawyer, defended several United Irishmen, father of Sarah Curran, author of “Mother Machree”.

l. 33 Ptolemy; II Philadelphia founded library at Alexandria
Phil Adolphos = Philadelphia – (“brotherly love”) was an ancient city of Asia Minor, is the capital of Pennsylvania to which Irish emigrants like Paddy Leary, in “Off to Philadelphia,” used to go + Ptolemy II Philadelphus (308-264 B.C.) – second Macedonian king of Egypt, founded Library at Alexandria. + [Note: Philadelphia is not the capital of Pennsylvania; that is Harrisburg.]
leery = alert, knowing, wide awake; empty, hungry + Leary, Paddy – subject of song “Off to Philadelphia in the Morning.”

l. 34 Lover, Samuel (1797-1868) – Irish songwriter and novelist; wrote song Molly Bawn.
Charles Lever: Ir novelist ; wrote Charles O’Malley; Samuel Lover: Ir. novelist & songwriter
Samyouwill Leaver or Damyouwell Lover = Irish songwriter and novelist; wrote song Molly Bawn.

l.35 s The Bowld Sojer Boy; s Finnegan’s Wake
molly = a pampered darling
saunter = a leisurely, careless, loitering walk or ramble; a stroll + song The Bowld Sojer Boy.
Finn again’s = O’Fionnagain (o’finegan) (gael) – descendant of Fionnagan (dim. of Fionn, “fair”); anglic. Finnegan + song Finnegan’s Wake (originally ‘Tim Finigan’s Wake’, written in the early 1860’s in New York City by John F. Poole, American-Irish playwright, songwriter and theatre manager).

l. 36 ph More power to your elbow!; I samhail: ghost
sowheel = soul + samhail (souwil) (gael) – ghost, apparition + phrase More power to your elbow!

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l. 1 s The Wearing of the Green; Gretna Green; greatness
on the green = on the green – on the stage + song The Wearing of the Green.
gretnass = Gretna – attrib. in reference to marriage without the parental consent.
joyboy (Slang) = homosexual

l.2 s Widdicombe Fair; ph Looks like Mulkdoon’s picnic (means everything is untidy)
Tom Mallon = Malone, Tom – Thomas Malone Chandler is the protagonist of “A Little Cloud”. In one recension of “Finnegan’s Wake,” Tim Malone is the mourner at whose head the bucket of whisky is thrown.
slapstick = knockabout comedy or humour, farce, horseplay

l. 3 Moate, village, C o. Westmeath; W.J. Ashcroft, D music hall performer ‘ The Solid Man’
MOATE = Village, County Westmeath. Its name derives from the nearby Mote of Grania. A “Muldoon’s picnic” is a chaotic mess.
Muldoons = Mullen, Tom Mallon, Dan Meldon, Don Maldon to be identical with Muldoon, and all identical with the ancient Irish hero Maelduin. A Muldoon’s Picnic, according to Mrs Atherton’s mother, is a complete shambles.
solid = of sound mind, sane, sober minded + W.J. Ashcroft, Dublin music hall performer, ‘The Solid Man’ (because of his famous rendering of song Muldoon the Solid Man), appeared in Dan Lowrey’s Music Hall.
sillied = silly – to make silly, to be silly + [sullied]

End 94.03

100 Words: A few words about the personal exploration of this month’s text 

[These entries are somewhat random, thoughts that arise from reading the text and brief research about the page. These are hardly intended to be academic criticism.]

[Tindall tells that the four judges represent the old Irish kingdoms:  Untius, Muncius, Punchus, and Pylax (FW 92.35-.36), and that two judges, Punchus and Pylax, both represent Pontius Pilate. Many FW characters revolt against integration into one psyche, splitting through a literary reproduction by mitosis. Shem and Shaun can’t share a body with a reprehensible wombmate; they separate. Pilate doesn’t; unsplit, he suffers ambivalence, fearing revolt, whether he executes Christ or spares Him. He institutionalizes “innocent nondecision,” a tradition and the politico’s pet ploy. Likewise, the ancient Irish kingdoms, Punchus (Connacht) and Pylax (Laighin), are respectively the most and least Celtic sections of an ambivalent Ireland.]