Tope

• tope: to drink liquor habitually and excessively, or to engage in such drinking
  • (HCE being likened to the type (Typus) and ALP here the ink?)

• dope

• topos: (Greek) place

• Mrs Top: Joyce's original version
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake

• tope: (Anglo-Indian) (1)(Hindi top) a cannon; (2) (Tamil toppu) a grove or orchard; (3) (Sanskrit stupa, Pali or Prakrit thupo) tuft of hair, crown of the head, summit, stupa, a Buddhist monument in the form of a solid dome

• Type → typography

• Mistress Dope: ALP

• trope: a figurative use of a word or expression