Difference between revisions of "With his broad and hairy face"
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* '''Makroprosopos:''' (''Greek'') the Great Face → in the Kabbalistic work ''Ha Idra Rabba Qadisha'', this is God the Father as creator, from the strands of whose beard the whole world proceeds | * '''Makroprosopos:''' (''Greek'') the Great Face → in the Kabbalistic work ''Ha Idra Rabba Qadisha'', this is God the Father as creator, from the strands of whose beard the whole world proceeds | ||
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| + | * '''hairy face:''' recalls Michael Finnegan's beard in the popular round: ''There was a man called Michael Finnegan, He grew whiskers on his chin-egan, The wind came along and blew them in-egan, Poor old Michael Finnegan beginagain,'' etc → compare ''beginagain'' with ''haltagain'' (see [[There from]]) | ||
Revision as of 05:33, 20 April 2011
- With his broad and hairy face, to Ireland a disgrace: the sentiment and the rhythm recall Hosty's ballad in the second chapter
- His father ... had a hairy face: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young man 1 → the quote comes at the beginning just after Once upon a time and a very good time it was
- Makroprosopos: (Greek) the Great Face → in the Kabbalistic work Ha Idra Rabba Qadisha, this is God the Father as creator, from the strands of whose beard the whole world proceeds
- hairy face: recalls Michael Finnegan's beard in the popular round: There was a man called Michael Finnegan, He grew whiskers on his chin-egan, The wind came along and blew them in-egan, Poor old Michael Finnegan beginagain, etc → compare beginagain with haltagain (see There from)
