Violer d'amores

• viola d'amores → violer d'amores
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• viola: Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "viola in all moods and senses"

• viola d'amore: (Italian: love viol) 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument
  • Wikipedia
  • 7 strings → 7 colors of the rainbow, cf. arclight/regginbrow

• violet: the colour at one end of the rainbow → see FW 003.13-14: rory end for red at the opposite end

• violer: one who plays the viol; a fiddler

• d'amores: (Catalan) of love

• amore: (Italian) love

• violer: (French) to rape; to violate; more fundamentally, to transgress, to fail to respect, to profane, as the adulterer Tristram/Tristan vis-à-vis Iseut

• violeur: (French) a rapist

• Armory Show: an international exhibition of modern art held in New York in 1913
  • Armory Show, 1913