Humptyhillhead of humself

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  • According to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
  • humped, humpbacked: HCE is a hunchback
  • hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Da hoved: head) and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
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