Difference between revisions of "Humptyhillhead of humself"
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| + | * '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself''' | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | * '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | ||
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia] | ||
Revision as of 00:45, 3 June 2008
- the humpty hill himself → the humpty hillhead himself → humptyhillhead of humself
- Humpty Dumpty: character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → Humpty Dumpty
- Humpty Dumpty → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
- humped, humpbacked → HCE is a hunchback
- hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish: hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
