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* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"[[Parnell]] ousted Isaac Butt from leadership"'' * '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issac_Butt Isaac Butt]:''' Irish Protestant lawyer who began the Home Rule Party which was later led by [[Parnell|Charles Stewart Parnell]] → [[buttended]] ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0134&isize=L&q1=Butt Third Census of Finnegans Wake] ** [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ABOUT-WORDS/2002-01/1010280841 Re: Etymology as a leisure actrivity & The 'Wake'] * '''butt:''' (''n'') 1. "thick end," O.E. ''buttuc'' "end, small piece of land," akin to O.N. ''butr'' "short." In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from 1450. Meaning "remainder of a smoked cigarette" first recorded 1847; 2. "target of a joke," 1616, originally "target for shooting practice" (1345), from O.Fr. ''but'' "aim, goal, '''end'''," perhaps from ''butte'' "mound, knoll," from Frank. ''*but'' (cf. O.N. butr "long of wood"), which would connect it with butt(1). [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=butt] * '''butt:''' (''v'') "hit with the head," c.1200, from Anglo-Norm. ''buter'', from O.Fr. ''boter'' "to thrust against," from V.L. ''*bottare'' "thrust," or from Frankish (cf. O.N. ''bauta'', Low Ger. ''boten'' "to strike, beat"), from P.Gmc. ''*butan'', from PIE base ''*bhau-'' "to strike" (see batter (v.)). To '''''butt in'' "rudely intrude"''' is Amer.Eng., 1900. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=butt] ** '''Genesis 27:35-36:''' "And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. / And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? '''for he hath supplanted me''' these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?" * '''buttended''' → bartended ** '''Genesis 27:25:''' "And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's '''[[Venissoon|venison]]''', that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he '''brought him wine, and he drank'''." * '''butted''' → goat → Jacob's goatskin (Genesis 27) → the zodiacal sign of Capricorn? * '''bed-ended''': Jacob sat at Isaac's bed when he tricked him * '''buttended:''' struck with the butt-end of a gun * '''buttended:''' → pretended → [[kidscad|scad]] * '''Butt Bridge:''' a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin * '''bland:''' dull, uninspiring; tasteless * '''blind''' → [[Isaac]] * '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac]:''' son of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham Abraham], second of the patriarchs and father to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esau Esau]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Isaac] was fooled into blessing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob], the younger son (who had the aid of his mother, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah Rebecca]), instead of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esau Esau], the elder son, when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Jacob] wore a goatskin on his arms and neck in order to appear as his more hairy brother * '''eye-sick:''' i.e. blind * '''Isaac Bickerstaff:''' a persona or pseudonym used by [[Jonathan Swift]] ==Commentary== * Parnell and Butt as [[Shem]] and [[Shaun]]. Shem and Shaun are associated with the bedroom door; this, the fourth of seven clauses in this paragraph, corresponds to "swerve of shore" in the first paragraph, the 4th of 7 elements in a second circuit of [[HCE]]'s bedroom

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