Stoop

• stop: cf. the phrase, “oh stop, please to stop” at FW 124.49, 232.18, 272.12, 379.05, 495.31, 588.33 and 609.07

• stoop: a raised platform, verandah, porch or set of steps leading up to the front door of a house

• stoop: to bend forward; to lower one's dignity → cf. 008.09 ("Mind your hats goan in"), when we had to stoop on our way into the museyroom

• She Stoops to Conquer: a play by Oliver Goldsmith

Commentary

It should be noted that the principal subject of our attention since Page 12, where Biddy the Hen turned up the remains of ALP's Letter while scavenging for food on the kitchen midden ("tip") in the backyard of HCE's tavern, has always been □ File:Book.PNG. The exact form taken by this object has undergone a series of transformations – the Letter, the Dublin landscape, the Annals of the Four Masters, the copyist's scroll or Book of Kells, the tome of Liber Lividus, the Plain of Moyelta, the confusing Babel of voices at the fall of the Tower of Babel, the dialogue between Mutt and Jute, or the archaeological remains of the present paragraph.