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* '''on a merry isthmus ''' → '''on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor''' ** [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] * [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Isthmus of Sutton a neck of land between [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth]] head and the plain"'' * '''happy Xmas''' → [[Page_197|FW 197.15:]] [[happy isthmass]] * '''scraggy:''' unkempt, straggling, irregular ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 027.27:''' "His [Sargent's] tangled hair and scraggy neck..." * '''craggy:''' full of crags or broken rocks; rough, rugged * '''scragged:''' rough, rugged * '''scrag:''' neck * '''scraggy:''' thin, bony, often applied to the neck. If Howth Head is Finnegan's head then the scraggy isthmus, the isthmus of Sutton, is his neck * '''Isthmus of Sutton:''' a narrow isthmus located about 12km from the centre of Dublin at the base of the [[Howth]] [[peninsula]]. It is a tombolo and connects [[Howth]] to the mainland. ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0552&isize=L&q1=Sutton A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%2C_Dublin Wikipedia] ** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=0&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=53.407485,-6.16333&spn=0.19279,0.553436&z=11 Google Maps] * '''isthmos (ισθμος):''' (''Greek'') neck; peninsula * '''eastmost:''' (''adj'') easternmost, farthest east * A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas usually with waterforms on either side. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmus] ** Canals are commonly built on them to join two waterforms. * In anatomy, isthmus refers to a constriction between organs. This is a list of '''anatomical isthmi''': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anatomical_isthmi] ** "Isthmus" the mesencephalon (midbrain) - rhombencephalon(hindbrain) boundary ** Isthmus faucium (Throat) ** Isthmus glandularis or Thyroid isthmus ** Isthmus tubae auditivae (Eustachian tube) ** Isthmus tubae uterinae (Fallopian tube - Part of female reproduction organs) ** Uterine isthmus (Part of female reproduction organs) ** Isthmus prostatae (Prostate - Part of male reproduction organs) *** The uterine isthmus and isthmus tubae uterinae is essential for female reproduction and continuing cycle of life. As is the Isthmus prostatae in males. ** Isthmus urethrae (Urethra) *** The Isthmus urethrae connects the bladder with the world's water ways continuing the water cycle. ** Cavo-tricuspid isthmus of the right atrium of the heart, a body of fibrous tissue in the lower atrium between the inferior vena cava, and the tricuspid valve. * "Scraggly isthmus of Europe Minor" = isthmus not of land but of boats (scraggly trade routes) that were the first to connect Europe to North America. * '''Europe Minor''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0355&isize=L&q1=Europe%20Minor A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] * Just as the Isthmus of Sutton separates Howth from the rest of Ireland, so the Bosphorus separates Europe and Asia → wars between Greece and Persia, symbolizing the conflict between east and west, and between the old and the new * Peloponnesian War between two confederacies led respectively by Sparta (on the Peloponnesian peninsula) and Athens (on the other side of the Isthmus of Corinth) → [[penisolate war]] * '''Asia Minor:''' the colonial name for Anatolia ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0254&isize=L&q1=Asia%20Minor A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor Wikipedia] * Europa, daughter (descendant) of Ocean and Tethys, mother of Minos, ravaged by Zeus who, in the form of a bull abducted her to Crete.

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