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* '''silex:''' (''Latin'') flint | * '''silex:''' (''Latin'') flint | ||
| − | * '''quarry:''' hunters’ prey | + | * '''quarry:''' (1) hunters’ prey (2) a place where stone, such as flint, is quarried |
* '''Why art thou silent''' → William Blake, ''To Nobodaddy'': “Why art thou silent & invisible,/ Father of Jealousy?/ Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds/ From every searching eye?// Why darkness and obscurity/ In all thy words and laws,/ That none dare eat the fruit but from/ The wily serpents jaws?/ Or is it because Secresy gains females’ loud applause?” | * '''Why art thou silent''' → William Blake, ''To Nobodaddy'': “Why art thou silent & invisible,/ Father of Jealousy?/ Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds/ From every searching eye?// Why darkness and obscurity/ In all thy words and laws,/ That none dare eat the fruit but from/ The wily serpents jaws?/ Or is it because Secresy gains females’ loud applause?” | ||
Latest revision as of 13:34, 19 November 2010
- The quarry and the silexflint suggest HCE silent: Joyce, Letters 13-05-1927 (to Harriet Shaw Weaver - Joyces uses the siglum for HCE interred in the landscape - see FW 006.32)
- Quare siles: (Latin) why are you silent?
- silex: (Latin) flint
- quarry: (1) hunters’ prey (2) a place where stone, such as flint, is quarried
- Why art thou silent → William Blake, To Nobodaddy: “Why art thou silent & invisible,/ Father of Jealousy?/ Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds/ From every searching eye?// Why darkness and obscurity/ In all thy words and laws,/ That none dare eat the fruit but from/ The wily serpents jaws?/ Or is it because Secresy gains females’ loud applause?”
