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* '''regginbrew''' → '''regginbrow''' | * '''regginbrew''' → '''regginbrow''' | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] |
* '''Regenbogen:''' (''German'') rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow | * '''Regenbogen:''' (''German'') rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow | ||
Revision as of 01:35, 30 April 2009
- regginbrew → regginbrow
- Regenbogen: (German) rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow
- At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red: Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Genesis 9:12-16: the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world
- reggia: (Italian) palace
- regina: (Latin) queen
- Regin: a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him
- brau: (German) brew
- blau: (German) blue → L/R split
- brow: eyebrow (on HCE's head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of Howth)
