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* '''Mary Mercer:''' the benefactor (died 1734) whose legacy led to the founding of Mercer's Hospital | * '''Mary Mercer:''' the benefactor (died 1734) whose legacy led to the founding of Mercer's Hospital | ||
| − | * '''Mercer's Hospital:''' a hospital near the centre of Dublin → Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' was given its world premiere in Dublin in 1742 in order to raise funds for Mercer's Hospital | + | * '''Mercer's Hospital:''' a hospital near the centre of Dublin → Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' was given its world premiere in Dublin in 1742 in order to raise funds for Mercer's Hospital → there are other musical allusions in this paragraph |
* '''Mercury:''' Roman god of merchants, thieves, money, etc, identified with the Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth; as Shaun walks the Via Dolorosa backwards in III.1 and III.2, he is always illustrating some attribute of backward-walking Mercury-Hermes-Thoth; in ''Ulysses'', Malachi Mulligan, who works in the Mater Hospital, is ''Mercurial Malachi'', and so is, in part, one of the models for Shaun | * '''Mercury:''' Roman god of merchants, thieves, money, etc, identified with the Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth; as Shaun walks the Via Dolorosa backwards in III.1 and III.2, he is always illustrating some attribute of backward-walking Mercury-Hermes-Thoth; in ''Ulysses'', Malachi Mulligan, who works in the Mater Hospital, is ''Mercurial Malachi'', and so is, in part, one of the models for Shaun | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=191 ''Third Census of Finnegans Wake''] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=goto&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=191 ''Third Census of Finnegans Wake''] | ||
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| + | * '''cordial:''' a drink that is supposedly good for the heart → a mother's milk? | ||
Latest revision as of 10:31, 27 April 2011
- Mater Misericordiae Hospital: a hospital at the top of Eccles Street in Dublin; popularly known as the Mater, its name is Latin for Mother of Mercy
- Mary Mercer: the benefactor (died 1734) whose legacy led to the founding of Mercer's Hospital
- Mercer's Hospital: a hospital near the centre of Dublin → Handel's oratorio Messiah was given its world premiere in Dublin in 1742 in order to raise funds for Mercer's Hospital → there are other musical allusions in this paragraph
- Mercury: Roman god of merchants, thieves, money, etc, identified with the Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth; as Shaun walks the Via Dolorosa backwards in III.1 and III.2, he is always illustrating some attribute of backward-walking Mercury-Hermes-Thoth; in Ulysses, Malachi Mulligan, who works in the Mater Hospital, is Mercurial Malachi, and so is, in part, one of the models for Shaun
- cordial: a drink that is supposedly good for the heart → a mother's milk?
