Difference between revisions of "Lipoleum"

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Napoleon: Napoleon Bonaparte, whom Wellington defeated at Waterloo
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

lipos (Greek) + oleum (Latin): fat + oil → lipoleum (if it were a word) would mean "the [olive] oil made from fat"; cp. petroleum, which means "the oil made from rock." But why does Napoleon = fat-oil?

lip: backchat, sauce, talking out of turn, insulting speech. A sign of uppitiness of the upstart Napoleon, and a reference to his speeches against the British.

linoleum: a type of floor-covering impregnated with linseed-oil → FW 021.13: oil cloth flure

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 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160291 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
-* '''''Gr'' lipos + ''L'' oleum:''' fat + oil &rarr; ''lipoleum'' (if it were a word) would mean "the [olive] oil made from fat" (cp. ''petroleum'', which means "the oil made from rock." But why does Napoleon = fat-oil?
+* '''lipos''' (''Greek'') ''' + oleum''' (''Latin'')''':''' fat + oil &rarr; ''lipoleum'' (if it were a word) would mean "the [olive] oil made from fat"; cp. ''petroleum'', which means "the oil made from rock." But why does Napoleon = fat-oil?
+*'''lip:''' backchat, sauce, talking out of turn, insulting speech. A sign of uppitiness of the upstart Napoleon, and a reference to his speeches against the British.
 * '''linoleum:''' a type of floor-covering impregnated with linseed-oil &rarr; [[Page_21|FW 021.13:]] [[oil cloth flure]]