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* '''castles aired and ventilated''' → '''cashels aired and ventilated''' | * '''castles aired and ventilated''' → '''cashels aired and ventilated''' | ||
** [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] | ** [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] | ||
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| + | * '''кошель (kašél):''' (''Russian'') purse, wallet, billfold | ||
* '''castles in the air:''' imaginary or unrealistic plans | * '''castles in the air:''' imaginary or unrealistic plans | ||
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* '''kaszel:''' (''Polish'') cough | * '''kaszel:''' (''Polish'') cough | ||
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* '''clashes''' → anagram of ''cashels'' → see line 1 | * '''clashes''' → anagram of ''cashels'' → see line 1 | ||
Revision as of 22:26, 4 April 2010
- castles aired and ventilated → cashels aired and ventilated
- cashels → castles + cash
- кошель (kašél): (Russian) purse, wallet, billfold
- castles in the air: imaginary or unrealistic plans
- cashel: (Anglo-Irish) castle, ring fort, stone fort
- caiseal: (Irish) castle
- The Castle: Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
- Cashel: a town in County Tipperary; formerly the royal seat of the kings of Munster
- kaszel: (Polish) cough
- кашель (kášel'): (Russian) cough
- clashes → anagram of cashels → see line 1
- aired and ventilated: opinions are aired and ventilated in Parliament.
- Ironically, there's a conference center today in Dublin Castle, so many opinions are aired and ventilated there nowadays.
- Also, if you unroof a castle, destroying it, it gets "aired and ventilated"
- heard
- vent: (archaic) to utter, to publish
- ventilate: (slang) to shoot with a gun; (of a bullet) to make a hole
