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

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  • 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