Where we whiled while we whithered
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- we find ourselves (hoult!) in Guild Circus with memorability mosoleum Length Without Breath of one who is more Mob than Man.: Joyce's First-Draft version of this phrase
- hoult: (archaic) a wooded hill
- hould: (dialect) hold! = stop! halt!
- halt: (military) a command to troops to cease marching
- circus: a curved street
- circus: (Latin) a circle → referring to Kev and Dolph's geometry construction of FW 293
- memorial: erected to commemorate someone or something
- mausoleum: a tomb, named after the tomb of Mausolus of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World → see the list of them on the following page
- length without breadth: Euclid's definition of a line in geometry → referring to Kev and Dolph's geometry construction of FW 293
- mob: an unruly crowd → HCE as Here Comes Everyone?
- mob: a promiscuous woman, a harlot, a prostitute → HCE as female?
- La donna è mobile: (Italian) "Woman is fickle"