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* '''peck of malt''' → '''peck of pa's malt''' | * '''peck of malt''' → '''peck of pa's malt''' | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
| + | ** see [[pa]] in [[past]] and [[passencore]] | ||
* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Willy brewed a peck of maut; Noah planted the vine and was drunk"'' | * [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Willy brewed a peck of maut; Noah planted the vine and was drunk"'' | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 13 June 2011
- peck of malt → peck of pa's malt
- A first-draft version of Finnegans wake
- see pa in past and passencore
- Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "Willy brewed a peck of maut; Noah planted the vine and was drunk"
- Willie Brewed a Peck o' Malt: a song composed by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in Waterside, Moffat, Dumfriesshire. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "twins"
- rot ... pa's malt: HCE's rotten urine in the commode's (commodius in line 2) chamber-pot recycles the alcohol that he has drunk → thus this, the sixth of seven clauses in the second paragraph, corresponds to "commodious vicus of recirculation" in the first paragraph → the 6th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
- pecker: penis
