Rushlit

• in his toofarback for messuages → in his rushlit toofarback for messuages
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• rushlight: a rush-candle, made from rushes dipped in grease; an insignificant person

• rushlight: (slang) liquor (Note: this annotation is in the first two editions of Roland McHugh's Annotations to Finnegans Wake but not in the third edition; it may be a mistake)

• rush-lit: illuminated by rushlights

• burning bush → Exodus 3

• resh = head, beginning (Hebrew)