Boaston nightgarters

• Boston: city in Massachusetts (masses of shoesets → the letter (File:Book.PNG) which the Hen scratches up in the kitchen midden was written on paper from Boston (Mass.) (FW 111.09-20); also, Morton Prince, the author of The Dissociation of a Personality (a key text for FW), was a Boston neurologist → see Sallybright five lines above
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

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• Knight ... garter: Knights of the Order of the Garter
  • Wikipedia