Museyroom

• museum: the English word museum comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as museums (or, rarely, musea). It is originally from the Greek mouseion, which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses, the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts
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• music room → chamber music → chamber pot → the outhouse in the backyard behind HCE's tavern
  • Ulysses 271.003: "Chamber music. Could make a kind of pun on that. It is a kind of music I often thought when she. Acoustics that is. Tinkling. Empty vessels make most noise. Because the acoustics, the resonance changes according as the weight of the water is equal to the law of falling water." (Bloom musing on the fact that the sound of Molly pissing into the chamber pot makes a sort of "chamber music")
  • Richard Ellmann, James Joyce 154: "Gogarty ... had brought Joyce to visit Jenny, an easy-going widow, and while they all drank porter Joyce read out his poems [Chamber Music] ... The widow ... had to interrupt to withdraw behind a screen to a chamber pot. As the two young men listened, Gogarty cried out, ‘There's a critic for you!’"

• muse: to reflect in silence

• mew: the sound a cat makes → poussepousse pousseypram, Kathe, Tip
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake: "This way to the mewseyroom"