Difference between revisions of "There is but young gleve"

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* '''young gleve:''' a possible mistranscription of Joyce's '''young glebe'''; in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''one globe'''
 
* '''young gleve:''' a possible mistranscription of Joyce's '''young glebe'''; in the first draft Joyce wrote, '''one globe'''
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050059&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''glebe:''' land, earth, soil → dry land appears after the deluge which ends FW
  
 
*'''young love:''' perhaps ironic comparison with grieve?
 
*'''young love:''' perhaps ironic comparison with grieve?
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*'''grieve:''' from gleve by way of the [[L/R split]]
 
*'''grieve:''' from gleve by way of the [[L/R split]]
  
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Latest revision as of 05:12, 10 September 2010

  • There is but one God: the first half of the Islamic shahadah, or profession of faith → it forms part of the daily prayers (salat) which devout Muslims are obliged to recite five times a day
  • Glaube: (German) faith, belief
  • Globe: the Globe Theatre, one of London's Bankside theatres, in which several of Shakespeare's plays were premiered
  • gleve (glaive): a lance or spear; a sword; a soldier armed with a gleve
  • claidheamh: (Irish) a sword (pronounced cleeve)
  • glebe: land, earth, soil → dry land appears after the deluge which ends FW
  • young love: perhaps ironic comparison with grieve?
  • Eve
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