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* '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself''' | * '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself''' | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L | + | ** [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] |
* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | * '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | ||
Revision as of 01:39, 30 April 2009
- the humpty hill himself → the humpty hillhead himself → humptyhillhead of humself
- Humpty Dumpty: character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → Humpty Dumpty
- Humpty Dumpty → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
- humped, humpbacked → HCE is a hunchback
- hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish: hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
