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+ | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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* '''Nut:''' an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way | * '''Nut:''' an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160296 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160296 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
Revision as of 19:05, 7 April 2010
- O my stars and body → O my shining stars and body
- Nut: an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way
- my stars! an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.
- oh my stars and garters a colloquial US expression of surprise.
- Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), often regarded as the founder of modern satanism, in his "Liber al vel legis" (1909): "Every man and every woman is a star."