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* '''in his toofarback for messuages''' → '''in his rushlit toofarback for messuages'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''rushlight:''' a rush-candle, made from rushes dipped in grease; an insignificant person
 
* '''rushlight:''' a rush-candle, made from rushes dipped in grease; an insignificant person
  

Revision as of 04:53, 11 April 2010

  • rushlight: a rush-candle, made from rushes dipped in grease; an insignificant person
  • rushlight: (slang) liquor (Note: this annotation is in the first two editions of Roland McHugh's Annotations to Finnegans Wake but not in the third edition; it may be a mistake)
  • rush-lit: illuminated by rushlights
  • burning bush → Exodus 3