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* '''Inverness:''' the location of Macbeth's castle and the scene of Duncan's murder in Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' | * '''Inverness:''' the location of Macbeth's castle and the scene of Duncan's murder in Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' | ||
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** the three witches of ''Macbeth'' → [[Issy]] and her two personalities | ** the three witches of ''Macbeth'' → [[Issy]] and her two personalities | ||
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* '''Vanessa:''' Jonathan Swift's name for Hester Vanhomrigh, one of his two mistresses → [[Vanessy]] | * '''Vanessa:''' Jonathan Swift's name for Hester Vanhomrigh, one of his two mistresses → [[Vanessy]] | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0384&isize=L&q1=Vanhomrigh Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
Latest revision as of 06:59, 10 November 2013
- all is fair in love and war (proverbial)
- all is vanity → Ecclesiastes 1.2: "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity"
- Vanity Fair: a year-long fair in John Bunyan's allegorical novel Pilgrim's Progress, established by Beelzebub, Apollyon and Legion in the town of Vanity
- Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero: a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Vanity Fair may have no hero, but it features two heroines: the virtuous Amelia Sedley and the scheming Becky Sharp → Issy's twin personalities
- vanity mirror: Issy's mirror
- "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
- Inverness: the location of Macbeth's castle and the scene of Duncan's murder in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Fair is foul and foul is fair, the three witches say in Act I, Scene I.
- the three witches of Macbeth → Issy and her two personalities
- Inver: bay, inlet → bay window → this, the fifth of seven clauses in this paragraph, corresponds to "bend of bay" in the first paragraph → the 5th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
- Vanessa: Jonathan Swift's name for Hester Vanhomrigh, one of his two mistresses → Vanessy
