Tee the tootal of the fluid hang the twoddle of the fuddled, O

• Phil the Fluther's Ball: (song) "To the toot of the flute and the twiddle of the fiddle, O"

• teetotal: abstaining totally from alcoholic drink → said to be coined by Richard Turner from the word total, which he pronounced with a stutter → in FW, stuttering is a sign of HCE's guilt

• tea [is] the total of the fluid

• T → used in some of Joyce's notes as a siglum for Tristan

• tee: to prepare, arrange

• tee: between

• twaddle: nonsense

• fuddled: drunk

• hang the twaddle of the fuddled = "damn the nonsense spouted by drunken people"

• two → in the song Finnegan's Wake, the riot which ensues during Tim's wake is precipitated by an altercation between two women, Biddy O'Brien and Maggy O'Connor → see deepbrow fundigs for more

• eau: (French) water → a teetotaller's drink

• O: Omega, the final letter of the Greek alphabet, signifying the end of another Viconian cycle → this paragraph and the preceding three constituted a Viconian cycle

• O: Joyce's siglum for The Twelve