The fumes and the hopes and the strupithump

• Horace, Odes 3.29.12: Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae ("The smoke and the grandeur and the noise of Rome") → The Smoke and The Big Smoke are slang terms for London (as is Romeville → indigenous romekeepers) → Dublin is sometimes called "the Big Smoke" by country dwellers → Luke Tarpey, the third of the Four Old Men (×), lives in Leinster
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• strumpet: a whore