Difference between revisions of "Sallybright"
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* '''sally:''' the sallow or willow tree → Beauchamp is pronounced "Beecham", which also includes a reference to a tree | * '''sally:''' the sallow or willow tree → Beauchamp is pronounced "Beecham", which also includes a reference to a tree | ||
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| + | * '''Sally & Bridget:''' in William Carleton's novel ''Tales and Stories of the Irish Peasantry'' Shaun Buie McGaveran is wooed by twelve girls; he holds a spinning contest to decide which he'll marry; the two leading contestants are Sally and Bridget | ||
Latest revision as of 13:46, 14 October 2010
- celebrate → muddy kissmans ("Merry Christmas"); in the rest of the paragraph, there may be references to Santa Claus, reversing gender and behaviour, in the image of a woman going around and collecting "spoiled goods" in a "nabsack" (contrasted with Santa distributing new toys from a sack)
- Sally: one of the repressed personalities of Christine Beauchamp, the subject of a celebrated case of multiple personalities studied by the Boston neurologist Morton Prince in The Dissociation of a Personality, a key text for FW
- sally: the sallow or willow tree → Beauchamp is pronounced "Beecham", which also includes a reference to a tree
- Sally & Bridget: in William Carleton's novel Tales and Stories of the Irish Peasantry Shaun Buie McGaveran is wooed by twelve girls; he holds a spinning contest to decide which he'll marry; the two leading contestants are Sally and Bridget
