Difference between revisions of "Until he seesaw"

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(Fickle Opinion and Playground Equipment)
 
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See, saw: to see the present and past (perhaps at the moment of death?)
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* '''He would see''' → '''until he seesaw'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
  
Seesaw: up and down (a ladder like a bricklayer)
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* '''s-saw:''' ''saw'' pronounced with a stutter, which in FW is indicative of [[HCE|HCE's]] guilt → cf. [[Stuttering]] and [[balbulous]] on this page
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* '''seesawed:''' swayed back and forth → went up and down (a ladder like a bricklayer)
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**Possibly unable to balance (because drunk)?
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* '''see, saw:''' to see the present and past (perhaps at the moment of death?) → cf. [[the future of his fates]] on this page
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* '''sewsaw:''' go back and forth with one's opinion; a piece of playground equipment - a wooden plank resting on a fulcrum that goes up and down

Latest revision as of 09:37, 1 June 2019

  • s-saw: saw pronounced with a stutter, which in FW is indicative of HCE's guilt → cf. Stuttering and balbulous on this page
  • seesawed: swayed back and forth → went up and down (a ladder like a bricklayer)
    • Possibly unable to balance (because drunk)?
  • see, saw: to see the present and past (perhaps at the moment of death?) → cf. the future of his fates on this page
  • sewsaw: go back and forth with one's opinion; a piece of playground equipment - a wooden plank resting on a fulcrum that goes up and down