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'''hitherandthithering''': cf. Portrait of the Artist: "Long, long she suffered his gaze and then quietly withdrew her eyes from his and bent them towards the stream, gently stirring the water with her foot '''hither and thither'''. The first faint noise of gently moving water broke the silence, low and faint and whispering, faint as the bells of sleep; '''hither and thither, hither and thither''';"
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* '''Beside the rivering waters of, hither & thither waters of''' → '''Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0140&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk.'''
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** Cp. popular English nursery rhyme: ''Hickory, dickory, dock, / The mouse ran up the clock. / The clock struck one, / The mouse ran down, / Hickory, dickory, dock.''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock] Some reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith, in [[Dublin]] for a volume of nursery rhymes he was collecting[http://www.irishabroad.com/Travel/Features/dublins-literary-greats.asp]
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* '''hitherandthithering'''
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** Cf. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/paym/paym.cgi?word=hither+and+thither A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]

Revision as of 06:46, 16 March 2012

  • Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk.
    • Cp. popular English nursery rhyme: Hickory, dickory, dock, / The mouse ran up the clock. / The clock struck one, / The mouse ran down, / Hickory, dickory, dock.[1] Some reports claim that the rhyme was written by Oliver Goldsmith, in Dublin for a volume of nursery rhymes he was collecting[2]
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