Difference between revisions of "Scraggy isthmus"
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| + | ** [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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Revision as of 00:06, 2 June 2008
- merry isthmus → scraggy isthmus
- happy Xmas → FW 197.15: happy isthmass
- scraggy: unkempt, straggling, irregular
- Ulysses 027.27: "His [Sargent's] tangled hair and scraggy neck..."
- craggy: full of crags or broken rocks; rough, rugged
- scragged: rough, rugged
- scrag: neck
- scraggy: thin, bony, often applied to the neck. If Howth Head is Finnegan's head then the scraggy isthmus, the isthmus of Sutton, is his neck
