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| − | * ''Tom Dick and Harry:'' referring to several randomly-selected people, not necessarily three and not necessarily all men. | + | * '''Tom Dick and Harry:''' referring to several randomly-selected people, not necessarily three and not necessarily all men. |
** A common reference used throughout the ''Wake'' - usually for the three soldiers who witnessed HCE's crime in Phoenix Park. | ** A common reference used throughout the ''Wake'' - usually for the three soldiers who witnessed HCE's crime in Phoenix Park. | ||
** Also HCE, Shaun and Shem | ** Also HCE, Shaun and Shem | ||
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* '''Tob:''' short for Tobias or Toby | * '''Tob:''' short for Tobias or Toby | ||
** Perhaps '''Tobias Smollett''' (1721 – 11771)a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque nove. | ** Perhaps '''Tobias Smollett''' (1721 – 11771)a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque nove. | ||
| − | * '''Charles | + | * '''Sir Charles Dilke:''' (1843 – 1911) an English Liberal and reformist politician. Touted as a future prime minister, his aspirations to higher political office were effectively terminated in 1885, after a notorious and well-publicised divorce case/sex scandal, much ike Parnell. |
| + | ** There is an 1880s music hall song by Gilbert and MacDermott', "Charlie Dilke Upset the Milk": | ||
| + | Master Dilke upset the mil | ||
| + | When taking it home to Chelsea; | ||
| + | The papers say that Charlie's gay | ||
| + | Rather a wilful wag!" | ||
| + | *** Note that"gay" in the 1889s still referred to heterosexuality.- | ||
* '''Edmond Halley''' (1656 – 1742): an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain. | * '''Edmond Halley''' (1656 – 1742): an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain. | ||
[[Category:three watchers]] | [[Category:three watchers]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:46, 20 June 2013
- Tom Dick and Harry: referring to several randomly-selected people, not necessarily three and not necessarily all men.
- A common reference used throughout the Wake - usually for the three soldiers who witnessed HCE's crime in Phoenix Park.
- Also HCE, Shaun and Shem
- Tobh (Hebrew): good
- Tob: short for Tobias or Toby
- Perhaps Tobias Smollett (1721 – 11771)a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque nove.
- Sir Charles Dilke: (1843 – 1911) an English Liberal and reformist politician. Touted as a future prime minister, his aspirations to higher political office were effectively terminated in 1885, after a notorious and well-publicised divorce case/sex scandal, much ike Parnell.
- There is an 1880s music hall song by Gilbert and MacDermott', "Charlie Dilke Upset the Milk":
Master Dilke upset the mil
When taking it home to Chelsea;
The papers say that Charlie's gay
Rather a wilful wag!"
- Note that"gay" in the 1889s still referred to heterosexuality.-
- Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742): an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain.
