Exaggerated themselse

• exaggerated theirselves → exaggerated themselse
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926:
  • "exaggerare = to mound up"
  • "themselse = another Dublin 5000 inhabitants"

• exaggerare: (Latin) to mound up; to pile up; (fig) to enhance, to heighten

• themselves

• damsels

• Thames → seems to be some minor river somewhere outside Eire... ;-)