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* '''blackguard:''' (''Hiberno-English'') a blaggard, ruffian, scroundrel → Shem (or Dolph, as he is known in this chapter), acknowledging his presence in the schoolroom? | * '''blackguard:''' (''Hiberno-English'') a blaggard, ruffian, scroundrel → Shem (or Dolph, as he is known in this chapter), acknowledging his presence in the schoolroom? | ||
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| + | * '''Biggar:''' Joseph Biggar, a diminutive hunchback MP who supported Parnell → in chapter I.1 he was equated with '''S''' the Man Servant in HCE's tavern → in Book I '''S''' opposes Shem, while in Book III he is identified with him; here he seems to be identified with him, if indeed ''Bigguard'' is '''S''' | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.McHughSigla.p0132&id=JoyceColl.McHughSigla&isize=M ''The Sigla of Finnegans Wake''] | ||
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| + | * '''big god:''' Ain Soph, the Kabbalistic idea of God in the infinite sense and as source of everything | ||
Latest revision as of 10:13, 22 April 2011
- blackguard: (Hiberno-English) a blaggard, ruffian, scroundrel → Shem (or Dolph, as he is known in this chapter), acknowledging his presence in the schoolroom?
- Biggar: Joseph Biggar, a diminutive hunchback MP who supported Parnell → in chapter I.1 he was equated with S the Man Servant in HCE's tavern → in Book I S opposes Shem, while in Book III he is identified with him; here he seems to be identified with him, if indeed Bigguard is S
- big god: Ain Soph, the Kabbalistic idea of God in the infinite sense and as source of everything
