A key in my kiss
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- key in my kiss: in Dion Boucicault's play Arrah-na-Pogue, the eponymous heroine acquires her name (Arrah of the Kiss) because she passed a message in a kiss to her imprisoned foster-brother (comdhalta) in Wicklow Gaol, enabling him to escape the day before he was to be hanged → compare this with the closing lines of Finnegans Wake: Lps. The keys to. Given!
- key: a musical mode, continuing the musical allusions in this footnote
