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* '''Gorgias:''' ancient Greek master of rhetoric who had a special dexterity with puns (see his defense of Helen of Troy); ''Gorgias'' is also the title of one of Plato's dialogues which features the rhetorician
 
* '''Gorgias:''' ancient Greek master of rhetoric who had a special dexterity with puns (see his defense of Helen of Troy); ''Gorgias'' is also the title of one of Plato's dialogues which features the rhetorician
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160196&q1=Gorgias Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0196&q1=Gorgias Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
  
 
* '''Georgians:''' the inhabitants of the American state of Georgia
 
* '''Georgians:''' the inhabitants of the American state of Georgia

Revision as of 08:17, 29 April 2009

  • gorgeous
  • gorgo: (Italian) whirlpool, sink → connects this, the second of seven clauses in this paragraph, with "Eve" (French: évier, "sink"), the second of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 2nd of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
  • gorgio: (Romani) youngster; a non-Roma
  • Gorgias: ancient Greek master of rhetoric who had a special dexterity with puns (see his defense of Helen of Troy); Gorgias is also the title of one of Plato's dialogues which features the rhetorician
  • Georgians: the inhabitants of the American state of Georgia
  • Georgian: indicative of the architecture prevalent during the reigns of the English monarchs George I - George IV (1714-1830) → much of Dublin city's architecture is Georgian
  • Giorgio Joyce: James Joyce's son