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| − | * | + | * '''Tip:''' a rubbish tip or kitchen midden in the backyard of the inn, in which fragments of [[ALP|ALP's]] letter are found by the Hen → symbolic of the relics and archaeological remains of past ages → also represents the primordial mudheap in Egyptian mythology; Atem created the world by spitting on it or by masturbating on it |
| + | ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 710.01:''' "as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit" | ||
| + | ** Shakespeare’s father was fined for keeping an illegal dunghill (''sterquinarium'') outside his house | ||
| − | * | + | * '''Tip''' → between [[Page_8|FW 008.08]] and [[Page_10|010.21]] there are ten ''Tip''s: nine occurrences in the one-word sentence "Tip." and a tenth and last occurrence in a three-word sentence ending not with a period but an exclamation mark and close-parenthesis: "Tip (Bullseye! Game!)" Thus ''Tip'' is possibly a phonetic approximation of darts hitting a dartboard, perhaps at [[HCE]]'s tavern. |
| − | *Joseph Campbell, in his ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'', hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text. | + | * '''Tippoo Sahib:''' the Sultan of Mysore; an enemy of Wellington’s in India |
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=285 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''Mont Tipsey''' → during the museyroom section, Joyce also mentions a "Mont Tipsey." While Waterloo is near Mt. St. Jean, "Mont Tipsey" is non-existent and may mean "Mont teipsum," i.e. ''mount yourself'' (Latin "teipsum"), or ''masturbate''. Alternately, it may refer to a state of being mildly drunk | ||
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| + | * '''Tip''' → Joseph Campbell, in his ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'', hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text | ||
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| + | * '''Tib:''' [[Issy|Issy's]] cat, [[Boald Tib]] → [[Page_28|FW 028.05]] → '''K''' is introduced to us as '''the mistress Kathe''', linking her somehow to the ''cat'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:11, 14 May 2011
- Tip: a rubbish tip or kitchen midden in the backyard of the inn, in which fragments of ALP's letter are found by the Hen → symbolic of the relics and archaeological remains of past ages → also represents the primordial mudheap in Egyptian mythology; Atem created the world by spitting on it or by masturbating on it
- Ulysses 710.01: "as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit"
- Shakespeare’s father was fined for keeping an illegal dunghill (sterquinarium) outside his house
- Tip → between FW 008.08 and 010.21 there are ten Tips: nine occurrences in the one-word sentence "Tip." and a tenth and last occurrence in a three-word sentence ending not with a period but an exclamation mark and close-parenthesis: "Tip (Bullseye! Game!)" Thus Tip is possibly a phonetic approximation of darts hitting a dartboard, perhaps at HCE's tavern.
- Tippoo Sahib: the Sultan of Mysore; an enemy of Wellington’s in India
- Mont Tipsey → during the museyroom section, Joyce also mentions a "Mont Tipsey." While Waterloo is near Mt. St. Jean, "Mont Tipsey" is non-existent and may mean "Mont teipsum," i.e. mount yourself (Latin "teipsum"), or masturbate. Alternately, it may refer to a state of being mildly drunk
- Tip → Joseph Campbell, in his A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text
