Tip
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Tip: a rubbish tip or kitchen midden in the backyard of the inn, in which fragments of ALP's letter are found by the Hen → symbolic of the relics and archaeological remains of past ages → also represents the primordial mudheap in Egyptian mythology; Atem created the world by spitting on it or by masturbating on it
- Ulysses 710.01: "as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit"
- Shakespeare’s father was fined for keeping an illegal dunghill (sterquinarium) outside his house
- Tip → between FW 008.08 and 010.21 there are ten Tips: nine occurrences in the one-word sentence "Tip." and a tenth and last occurrence in a three-word sentence ending not with a period but an exclamation mark and close-parenthesis: "Tip (Bullseye! Game!)" Thus Tip is possibly a phonetic approximation of darts hitting a dartboard, perhaps at HCE's tavern.
- Tippoo Sahib: the Sultan of Mysore; an enemy of Wellington’s in India
- Mont Tipsey → during the museyroom section, Joyce also mentions a "Mont Tipsey." While Waterloo is near Mt. St. Jean, "Mont Tipsey" is non-existent and may mean "Mont teipsum," i.e. mount yourself (Latin "teipsum"), or masturbate. Alternately, it may refer to a state of being mildly drunk
- Tip → Joseph Campbell, in his A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text
