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*After nine occurrences of the one-word sentence "Tip." in the museum section, the word occurs here for the tenth and last time in a three-word sentence ending not with a period but an exclamation mark and close-parenthesis: "Tip (Bullseye! Game!)"
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* '''Tip:''' a rubbish tip or kitchen midden in the backyard of the inn, in which fragments of [[ALP|ALP's]] letter are found by the Hen → symbolic of the relics and archaeological remains of past ages
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** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 710.01: "as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit"
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** Shakespeare’s father was fined for keeping an illegal dunghill (''sterquinarium'') outside his house
  
*During the museum section, Joyce also mentions a "Mont Tipsey." While Waterloo is near Mt. St. Jean, "Mont Tipsey" is non-existant and may mean "Mont Ipse," i.e., Mount Itself or Mount Himself (Latin "ipse"). Alternately, it may refer to a state of being mildly drunk
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* '''Tip''' → between [[Page_8|FW 008.08]] and [[Page_10|FW 010.21]] there are ten ''Tip''s: nine occurrences in the one-word sentence "Tip." and a tenth and last occurrence in a three-word sentence ending not with a period but an exclamation mark and close-parenthesis: "Tip (Bullseye! Game!)"
  
*Joseph Campbell, in his ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'', hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text.
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* '''Mont Tipsey''' → during the museyroom section, Joyce also mentions a "Mont Tipsey."  While Waterloo is near Mt. St. Jean, "Mont Tipsey" is non-existent and may mean "Mont Ipse," i.e., Mount Itself or Mount Himself (Latin "ipse"). Alternately, it may refer to a state of being mildly drunk
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* '''Tip''' → Joseph Campbell, in his ''A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'', hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text
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* '''Tib:''' [[Issy|Issy's]] cat, [[Boald Tib]] → [[Page_28|FW 028.05]]

Revision as of 06:32, 31 July 2006

  • Tip: a rubbish tip or kitchen midden in the backyard of the inn, in which fragments of ALP's letter are found by the Hen → symbolic of the relics and archaeological remains of past ages
    • Ulysses 710.01: "as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit"
    • Shakespeare’s father was fined for keeping an illegal dunghill (sterquinarium) outside his house
  • Tip → between FW 008.08 and FW 010.21 there are ten Tips: nine occurrences in the one-word sentence "Tip." and a tenth and last occurrence in a three-word sentence ending not with a period but an exclamation mark and close-parenthesis: "Tip (Bullseye! Game!)"
  • Mont Tipsey → during the museyroom section, Joyce also mentions a "Mont Tipsey." While Waterloo is near Mt. St. Jean, "Mont Tipsey" is non-existent and may mean "Mont Ipse," i.e., Mount Itself or Mount Himself (Latin "ipse"). Alternately, it may refer to a state of being mildly drunk
  • Tip → Joseph Campbell, in his A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, hypothesized the repetitive "tip" as the knocking of a branch against a window pane, a window in the bedroom of whatever dreamer is dreaming the dream that is the text