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* '''nor stones''' → '''nor sham rocks''' → '''nor had topsawyer's rocks''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] * '''had:''' "Had! The manifestation of Nuit" - First line of Aleister Crowley's Liber AL Legis. Had is a shorthand for Hadit, the Thelemic version of Horus. Notice it happens [[Vico|four]] times in this page, and al (the key to the Book of the Law) happens four times on the previous one ([[Page 628]]) : "The keys to. Given! A way '''a l'''one '''a l'''ast''' a l'''oved '''al'''ong the". * '''Topsawyer's Rock:''' a formation on the [[Oconee]] River, the river on which Dublin, Georgia, in the USA, was founded * '''Tom Sawyer:''' pun with the name Tom [[Sawyer]], the character in [[Mark]] Twain's book and friend of Huckleberry [[Finn]]. Tom is [[Shaun]] to Huck's [[Shem]]. Is Mark Twain, their literary father, [[HCE]] (like his namesake King Mark), or is he the combined Shem-Shaun Tristan character (as his surname suggests: Twain = two, twin, both)? ** '''Tom Sawyer''' → St Thomas à Becket, contrasted with St Lawrence O'Toole (003.08) * '''top-sawyer:''' the person who stands at the top of a saw pit above the pit-sawyer; more generally a person in a position of advantage or eminence * '''rocks:''' (''slang'') testicles, balls → '''rocks ... exaggerated themselves''' implies that the Irish immigrant to America left lots of progeny **'''''[[Ulysses]]'' 062.13:''' "O, rocks! she [Molly] said." * '''rocks:''' (''slang'') money → '''rocks ... exaggerated themselves''' implies that the Irish immigrant to America became financially prosperous * '''Topsawyer:''' Charles Dickens, ''David Copperfield'', Chapter 5: the naive David is bilked out of half a pint of ale by a dishonest waiter who tells him that "a stout gentleman, by the name of Topsawyer" died the previous day after drinking a glass of ale! * '''Peter Sawyer:''' a Dublin exile; the supposed founder of Dublin, Georgia (actually it was a Jonathan Sawyer who founded the city) ** '''Peter:''' from the Greek, ''petros'' (''πετρος''), a masculine form of the Greek word ''petra'' (''πετρα''), "rock" → "Thou art Peter and upon this rock I shall build my church" (Matthew 16:18)

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