Difference between revisions of "Bababad"

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* b-b-bad: "bad" spoken by someone with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter - or hesitancy of speech - is a sign of his guilt, just as Pigott's misspelling of "hesitancy" as "hesitency" in his forged Parnell letters betrayed his guilt
 
* b-b-bad: "bad" spoken by someone with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter - or hesitancy of speech - is a sign of his guilt, just as Pigott's misspelling of "hesitancy" as "hesitency" in his forged Parnell letters betrayed his guilt
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* ''I'' bád: boat?

Revision as of 05:49, 13 June 2006

  • Babel: the confusion of tongues at the tower of Babel (Genesis 11)
  • Babbo: a nickname which Joyce's children gave him
  • b-b-bad: "bad" spoken by someone with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter - or hesitancy of speech - is a sign of his guilt, just as Pigott's misspelling of "hesitancy" as "hesitency" in his forged Parnell letters betrayed his guilt
  • I bád: boat?