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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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Revision as of 11:35, 13 April 2010

  • steeple
  • staple: wool; lock of wool
  • staple: a u-shaped type of nail
  • stable → the occurrence of born and stable in the same line inevitably allude to both Christ (who was supposedly born in a stable) and the Duke of Wellington (who famously remarked that being born in a stable did not necessarily make one a horse anymore than being born in Ireland made one an Irishman)
  • Staple: basic food stuff - of other days- traditionally potato; distilled to potcheen a potent spirit