Waterloose

• Waterloo: a Belgian village near the site of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); FW 008.9 - 010.23 is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in his novel Les Misérables
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
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  • Les Misérables

• water closet, loo → the outhouse in the backyard behind HCE's tavern
  • Ulysses 531.19: "Waterloo. Watercloset."

• waterless → the Flood which ends FW is beginning to abate

• watercourse → the name Waterloo is thought to derive from a Dutch word meaning watercourse → riverrun
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• Lucia Joyce: Joyce's daughter, whose was one of his principal models for Issy
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake