Erse solid man

• the solid man → erse solid man
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Erse (pron urs): synonym for Irish Gaelic and sometimes also for Scottish Gaelic

• ers: (Scots): arse, buttocks

• erse solid: arse-soiled (see entailed 003.19)

• erse solid: earth-solid; earth-soiled → Adam
  • Genesis 2:7: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

• ars: (Latin): art, skill

• erst: once; formerly; at first

• ere: Before; i.e., before the fall, he was a solid man

• Muldoon, the Solid Man: a parody song, written by Edward Harrigan; its first performance was probably in March 1874 in conjunction with a variety sketch called "Who Owns the Clothes Line." It became very popular and was covered by many other performers. It probably was spread to Ireland itself through the music-hall singing of William J. Ashcroft.
  • Muldoon, the Solid Man
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• The Solid Man: William J. Ashcroft, Dublin music-hall performer, so-called after his signature song

• William Muldoon: Irish-American wrestler (1852-1933), whose biography was entitled Muldoon, the Solid Man of Sport (1929)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• sullied: soiled; polluted; defiled → Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.129-130: "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew". The First Folio has solid, while Q1 and Q2 have sallied (in the sense of "assailed"); sullied is a nineteenth-century emendation

• Ulysses 099.03: "And how is Dick, the solid man?"