Difference between revisions of "Merlinburrow burrocks"
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130447&q1=Marlborough A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130447&q1=Marlborough A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] | ||
| − | * '''Merlin’s Barrow''' → Merlin was entombed alive in a rock by Morgana La Faye → [[Page_7|FW 007.01]] [[rockbound]] | + | * '''Merlin’s Barrow''' → Merlin was entombed alive in a rock by Morgana La Faye → [[Page_7|FW 007.01]] [[rockbound]] → this paragraph corresponds to Vico's third age, which is characterized by the institution of burial |
* '''borrow''' → to bite one’s ear → [[bite at his ear]] | * '''borrow''' → to bite one’s ear → [[bite at his ear]] | ||
Revision as of 09:35, 17 April 2011
- Marlborough Barracks: an army barracks in Dublin; now known as McKee Barracks
- Merlin’s Barrow → Merlin was entombed alive in a rock by Morgana La Faye → FW 007.01 rockbound → this paragraph corresponds to Vico's third age, which is characterized by the institution of burial
- borrow → to bite one’s ear → bite at his ear
- George Borrow: novelist, author of the gipsy novels Romany Rye and Lavengro, both of which are alluded to in FW
- burrock: a wicker basket for catching fish
- bullocks → L/R split
- burro: (Spanish) ass, donkey → the Ass
