Thuartpeatrick

• thouartpatrick → thouartpeatrick → thuartpeatrick
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• thou art Peter: Matthew 16:18 → there is also a pun on peatrick as Peter-Rock. In Greek petros, "Peter", is a masculine form of petra, which means "rock"; Jesus puns on the ambiguity when he says "Thou art Peter (petros), and upon this rock (petra) I will build my church."
  • FW 407.11 ff: "... (whish, O whish!) ... I heard a voice ... voise from afar ... Tu es Petrus"

• Patrick: St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• peat: turf

• rick: hayrick

• trick → scad and kidscad

• thú: (Irish) you

• peat → St Patrick's Purgatory contained a peat fire
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