Difference between revisions of "Rot a peck of pa's malt"
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* '''Noah planted vine & was drunk:''' Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | * '''Noah planted vine & was drunk:''' Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] | ||
Revision as of 01:48, 4 May 2009
- peck of malt → peck of pa's malt
- Willie Brewed a Peck o' Malt: a song composed by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in Waterside, Moffat, Dumfriesshire. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "twins"
- Noah planted vine & was drunk: Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to Harriet Shaw Weaver
- rot ... pa's malt: HCE's rotten urine in the commode's (commodius in line 2) chamber-pot recycles the alcohol that he has drunk → thus this, the sixth of seven clauses in the second paragraph, corresponds to "commodious vicus of recirculation" in the first paragraph → the 6th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
- pecker: penis
