Difference between revisions of "Their's hayair"
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* '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 311.04:''' "There’s hair, Joe, says I" | * '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 311.04:''' "There’s hair, Joe, says I" | ||
| − | * '''hay:''' contrasted with straw → [[Strawng voice of false jiccup|strawng]] → Hayfoot and Strawfoot = left-foot and right-foot, a reference to an apocryphal story about recruits in the American Revolutionary War (or the Civil War) who did not know right from left, so they tied hay to their left feet and straw to their right feet and were ordered to march "hayfoot-strawfoot-hayfoot-strawfoot...." → ''Hay Foot, Straw Foot'', a movie from 1919 → according to Campbell and Robinson (''Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'') Hayfoot and Strawfoot were also antagonistic brothers | + | * '''hay:''' contrasted with straw → [[Strawng voice of false jiccup|strawng]] → Hayfoot and Strawfoot = left-foot and right-foot, a reference to an apocryphal story about recruits in the American Revolutionary War (or the Civil War) who did not know right from left, so they tied hay to their left feet and straw to their right feet and were ordered to march "hayfoot-strawfoot-hayfoot-strawfoot....". In Ireland, Irish dancing was once taught this way ([https://www.irishamericanmom.com/2015/07/28/hay-foot-straw-foot/ Hay Foot, Straw Foot]) → ''Hay Foot, Straw Foot'', a movie from 1919 → according to Campbell and Robinson (''Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'') Hayfoot and Strawfoot were also antagonistic brothers |
* '''hairy''' → Genesis 27.23: "He [Isaac] did not recognize him [Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands." → [[Page_3|FW 003.10-11]] | * '''hairy''' → Genesis 27.23: "He [Isaac] did not recognize him [Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands." → [[Page_3|FW 003.10-11]] | ||
Revision as of 10:43, 19 April 2018
- hair → hay hair → their's hayair
- There’s Hair, Like Wire, Coming out of the Empire: a song about the Empire Theatre, a London music-hall
- Ulysses 311.04: "There’s hair, Joe, says I"
- hay: contrasted with straw → strawng → Hayfoot and Strawfoot = left-foot and right-foot, a reference to an apocryphal story about recruits in the American Revolutionary War (or the Civil War) who did not know right from left, so they tied hay to their left feet and straw to their right feet and were ordered to march "hayfoot-strawfoot-hayfoot-strawfoot....". In Ireland, Irish dancing was once taught this way (Hay Foot, Straw Foot) → Hay Foot, Straw Foot, a movie from 1919 → according to Campbell and Robinson (Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake) Hayfoot and Strawfoot were also antagonistic brothers
- hairy → Genesis 27.23: "He [Isaac] did not recognize him [Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands." → FW 003.10-11
- also, The heir's hair is Esau's (or Jacob's) hair.
