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* '''ey:''' Chaucerian word for Egg. Caxton in a well-known introduction to one of his first books wrote: "what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte egges or eyren?" [what should a man write these days, eggs or eyren?]
  
Caxton in a well-known introduction to one of his first books wrote: "what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte egges or eyren?" [what should a man write these days, eggs or eyren?]
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Breakfast, and particularly eggs, is what HCE looks forward to as it signals his resurrection from the night of sleep. There are also many references to HCE as an egg, symbolising his incubation as well as his Humpty-Dumpty fall.

Latest revision as of 11:03, 9 July 2012

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  • ey: Chaucerian word for Egg. Caxton in a well-known introduction to one of his first books wrote: "what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte egges or eyren?" [what should a man write these days, eggs or eyren?]

Breakfast, and particularly eggs, is what HCE looks forward to as it signals his resurrection from the night of sleep. There are also many references to HCE as an egg, symbolising his incubation as well as his Humpty-Dumpty fall.