Difference between revisions of "Mathmaster"
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| − | * ' | + | * '''mathētēs (μαθητης):''' (''Greek'') pupil → contest between a pupil and his master? |
| − | * m-m-master: ''master'' said with a stutter | + | * '''m-m-master:''' ''master'' said with a stutter → in FW [[HCE|HCE's]] stutter is always a sign of his guilt |
| − | * MacMaster? | + | * '''MacMaster''' ? |
| − | * mathmaster → overcome | + | * '''mathmaster''' → to overcome by means of logic, reason and strategy? → to outwit? (Joyce's coinage) |
| − | * mathematics? | + | * '''mathematics''' ? |
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| + | * '''still out to mathmaster''' → Adaline Glasheen discerns an allusion to Dublin's patron saint Laurence O'Toole (his surname in "still") and London's Thomas à Becket (his first name in '''''to m''athmaster''') | ||
| + | * [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160248&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Revision as of 04:10, 4 November 2006
- mathētēs (μαθητης): (Greek) pupil → contest between a pupil and his master?
- m-m-master: master said with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter is always a sign of his guilt
- MacMaster ?
- mathmaster → to overcome by means of logic, reason and strategy? → to outwit? (Joyce's coinage)
- mathematics ?
- still out to mathmaster → Adaline Glasheen discerns an allusion to Dublin's patron saint Laurence O'Toole (his surname in "still") and London's Thomas à Becket (his first name in to mathmaster)
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
