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Latest revision as of 10:34, 6 April 2013
- in his toofarback for messuages → in his rushlit toofarback for messuages
- rushlight: a rush-candle, made from rushes dipped in grease; an insignificant person
- rushlight: (slang) liquor (Note: this annotation is in the first two editions of Roland McHugh's Annotations to Finnegans Wake but not in the third edition; it may be a mistake)
- rush-lit: illuminated by rushlights
- burning bush → Exodus 3
- resh = head, beginning (Hebrew)
