Difference between revisions of "Sharpen his pillowscone"
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* '''stone''' → associated in FW with [[Shaun]] | * '''stone''' → associated in FW with [[Shaun]] | ||
| − | * '''Scone:''' a place in Scotland; the Stone of Scone was supposedly the ''Lia Fáil'', or Stone of Destiny, a monolith taken from Tara which roared its approbation when the true High King of Ireland was crowned; it is now in Westminster Abbey | + | * '''Scone:''' a place in Scotland; the Stone of Scone was supposedly the ''Lia Fáil'', or Stone of Destiny, a monolith taken from Tara which roared its approbation when the true High King of Ireland was crowned; it is now the Coronation Stone in Westminster Abbey |
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130428&q1=Scone A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130428&q1=Scone A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
Revision as of 08:27, 11 July 2006
- Sharpen his pillowscone, tap up his bier → the third of four comments by the Four Old Men (×)
- pillow
- pillowstone: grave marker
- pillar stone: a pillar-shaped monument or memorial stone
- stone → associated in FW with Shaun
- Scone: a place in Scotland; the Stone of Scone was supposedly the Lia Fáil, or Stone of Destiny, a monolith taken from Tara which roared its approbation when the true High King of Ireland was crowned; it is now the Coronation Stone in Westminster Abbey
- scone: a type of bun or cake
- Genesis 28.11: And he [Jacob] lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep"
