Difference between revisions of "Celescalating"
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* '''escalating:''' ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity | * '''escalating:''' ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity | ||
| + | ** '''celestial''' + '''escalating''' → escalating to the heavens | ||
* '''escalator:''' a moving staircase | * '''escalator:''' a moving staircase | ||
Revision as of 08:25, 5 November 2007
- celestial: heavenly
- caeli: (Latin) heavens
- escalating: ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity
- celestial + escalating → escalating to the heavens
- escalator: a moving staircase
- Caelestius: disciple of the heretic Pelagius; Pelagius may have been Irish
- Pelagius (11th Britannica, which was Joyce's source)
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Coelestinus: regnal name of Pope Celestine I, who persecuted the Pelagians and sent Palladius to Ireland in 431
- Celestine I (11th Britannica)
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
