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* '''barley bird:''' the name given locally to various birds appearing about the time of barley-sowing, like the wryneck, siskin, greenfinch, and sometimes the nightingale | * '''barley bird:''' the name given locally to various birds appearing about the time of barley-sowing, like the wryneck, siskin, greenfinch, and sometimes the nightingale | ||
| − | * '''The Hen:''' Biddy Doran, the hen that inhabits the yard behind [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern; here clearly associated with [[ALP]] → with the ''gnarlybird'' begins a paragraph full of allusions to birds and flight | + | * '''The Hen:''' Biddy Doran, the hen that inhabits the yard behind [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern; here clearly associated with [[ALP]] → with the ''gnarlybird'' begins a paragraph full of allusions to birds and flight → the twelve numbers associated with the gnarlybird ('''runalittle, doalittle ... pelfalittle''' = 1, 2, ... 12) lead Joseph Campbell, ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'' 41, to associate the gnarlybird with The Twelve ('''O'''), customers in HCE's tavern and citizens at the wake, as well as a form of the janitrix Kathe |
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160164&q1=Doran Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160164&q1=Doran Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Revision as of 07:28, 14 May 2011
- gnarly: covered with knotty protuberances (as, for example, a tree); distorted, twisted
- gnarl: to growl; to make a harsh noise → the subsequent word bleakbardfields suggests blackbirds, hence cawing crows; and crows are mentioned further on (top of page 11)
- knolly → see knollyrock in the previous line, the form of which is mirrored by that of gnarlybird
- barley bird: the name given locally to various birds appearing about the time of barley-sowing, like the wryneck, siskin, greenfinch, and sometimes the nightingale
- The Hen: Biddy Doran, the hen that inhabits the yard behind HCE's tavern; here clearly associated with ALP → with the gnarlybird begins a paragraph full of allusions to birds and flight → the twelve numbers associated with the gnarlybird (runalittle, doalittle ... pelfalittle = 1, 2, ... 12) lead Joseph Campbell, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake 41, to associate the gnarlybird with The Twelve (O), customers in HCE's tavern and citizens at the wake, as well as a form of the janitrix Kathe
- early bird → (proverb) "it’s the early bird that gets the worm"
- whirlybird: used since 1951, after Joyce's death, for a helicopter; perhaps earlier there was a spinning, flying toy with that name?
