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* '''hair''' → '''hay hair''' → '''their's hayair''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] * '''''There’s Hair, Like Wire, Coming out of the Empire'':''' a song about the Empire Theatre, a London music-hall ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0350&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] * '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 311.04:''' "There’s hair, Joe, says I" * '''hay:''' contrasted with straw → [[Strawng voice of false jiccup|strawng]] → Hayfoot and Strawfoot = left-foot and right-foot **''[[A Portrait]]'' p. 23: "The prefect cried: —Quick March! Hayfoot Strawfoot!" **a reference to an apocryphal story about recruits in the American Revolutionary War (or the Civil War) who did not know right from left, so they tied hay to their left feet and straw to their right feet and were ordered to march "hayfoot-strawfoot-hayfoot-strawfoot....". In Ireland, Irish dancing was once taught this way ([https://www.irishamericanmom.com/2015/07/28/hay-foot-straw-foot/ Hay Foot, Straw Foot]) → ''Hay Foot, Straw Foot'', a movie from 1919 → according to Campbell and Robinson (''Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'') Hayfoot and Strawfoot were also antagonistic brothers * '''hairy''' → Genesis 27.23: "He [Isaac] did not recognize him [Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands." → [[Page_3|FW 003.10-11]] ** also, '''The heir's hair''' is Esau's (or Jacob's) hair. [[Category:The Bible]]

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