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| + | * '''gorgo:''' (''Italian'') whirlpool, sink → connects this, the second of seven clauses in this paragraph, with [[Eve_and_Adam's|Eve]] (French: ''évier'', "sink"), the second of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 2nd of 7 elements in a second circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom | ||
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| + | * '''gorgio:''' (''Romani'') youngster; a non-Roma | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_people Wikipedia] | ||
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| + | * '''Gorgias:''' ancient Greek master of rhetoric who had a special dexterity with puns (see his defense of Helen of Troy); ''Gorgias'' is also the title of one of Plato's dialogues which features the rhetorician. Gorgias died at Larissa (→ [[Lawrence|Laurens County]]?) in Thessaly in 376 BC. | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0196&isize=L&q1=Gorgias Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias Wikipedia] | ||
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| + | * '''Georgians:''' the inhabitants of the American state of Georgia | ||
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| + | * '''Georgian:''' indicative of the architecture prevalent during the reigns of the English monarchs George I - George IV (1714-1830) → much of Dublin city's architecture is Georgian | ||
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| + | * '''Giorgio Joyce:''' James Joyce's son | ||
[[Category: Geography of Dublin]] | [[Category: Geography of Dublin]] | ||
Revision as of 10:00, 26 April 2012
- Laurens county, Ga → Laurens County's gorgios
- Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "Dublin, Laurens Co, Georgia, founded by a Dubliner, Peter Sawyer, on r. Oconee. Its motto: Doubling all the time."
- Laurens County: a county in Georgia, USA; founded (or so Joyce thought) by the Dubliner Peter Sawyer on the river Oconee. Its motto: Doubling all the time. (cf. also Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926)
- Saint Lawrence: the adopted name of Sir Amory Tristram, after the third-century martyr, whose feast day falls on 10 August, the supposed day of the Battle of Evora (in 1177 CE), in which Amory Tristram conquered Howth
- Saint Laurence O'Toole: the patron saint of Dublin (1128-1180), a contemporary of Amory Tristram; contrasted in FW with St Thomas à Becket
- Saint Laurence of Canterbury: (died 3 February 619) was the second Archbishop of Canterbury
- Saint Lawrence: Spanish martyr and one of the seven deacons of Rome, where he was martyred in 258
- Laurence Sterne: (1713-1768) an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
- Laurens County: there is also a Laurens County in South Carolina. Both counties are twins
- St Lawrence Road: a street in Clontarf, Dublin
- Lauren's cunt
- Lauren's cunny
- gorgeous
- gorge → cf. isthmus
- gorgo: (Italian) whirlpool, sink → connects this, the second of seven clauses in this paragraph, with Eve (French: évier, "sink"), the second of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 2nd of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
- gorgio: (Romani) youngster; a non-Roma
- Gorgias: ancient Greek master of rhetoric who had a special dexterity with puns (see his defense of Helen of Troy); Gorgias is also the title of one of Plato's dialogues which features the rhetorician. Gorgias died at Larissa (→ Laurens County?) in Thessaly in 376 BC.
- Georgians: the inhabitants of the American state of Georgia
- Georgian: indicative of the architecture prevalent during the reigns of the English monarchs George I - George IV (1714-1830) → much of Dublin city's architecture is Georgian
- Giorgio Joyce: James Joyce's son
