Difference between revisions of "Leaper Orthor. Fear siecken! Fieldgaze thy tiny frow. Hugacting"

Revision as of 03:24, 10 August 2006

Lieber Arthur. Wir siegen! Wie geht's deiner kleinen Frau? Hochachtung: (German) Dear Arthur. We conquer! How's your little wife? Yours faithfully

liberator → the Liberator was a nickname for Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Catholic statesman whose election to the House of Commons forced the Duke of Wellington – the then Prime Minister of Great Britain – to introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1829
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Wikipedia

leaper → HCE as the salmon of knowledge in Irish mythology; salmon means "leaper"
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

Orthez: a town in southwestern France → the Battle of Orthez, 27 February 1814, in which Wellington defeated Soult
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

versiegen: (German) to dry up → irrigate → the abating of the Flood which ends FW → the drying up of the battlefield at Waterloo following the early-morning rain which crucially delayed the start of the battle

frow: (1) a Dutchwoman; (2) a woman, lady, wife, especially a Dutch or German one; (3) applied to the Maenads or Bacchantes of paganism; (4) (dialect) an idle, dirty woman

Hougoumont: a chateau near Waterloo which the British occupied
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

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 * '''Lieber Arthur. Wir siegen! Wie geht's deiner kleinen Frau? Hochachtung:''' (''German'') Dear Arthur. We conquer! How's your little wife? Yours faithfully
-* liberator &rarr; the Liberator was a nickname for Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Catholic statesman whose election to the House of Commons forced the Duke of Wellington &ndash; the then Prime Minister of Great Britain &ndash; to introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1829
+* '''liberator''' &rarr; the Liberator was a nickname for Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Catholic statesman whose election to the House of Commons forced the Duke of Wellington &ndash; the then Prime Minister of Great Britain &ndash; to introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1829
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160298&q1=Liberator Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation Wikipedia]