Tob Dilke and Halley
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Tom Dick and Harry: referring to several randomly-selected people, not necessarily three and not necessarily all men.
- A common reference used throughout the Wake - usually for the three soldiers who witnessed HCE's crime in Phoenix Park.
- Also HCE, Shaun and Shem
- Tobh (Hebrew): good
- Tob: short for Tobias or Toby
- Perhaps Tobias Smollett (1721 – 11771)a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque nove.
- Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789–1864): an English liberal critic and writer on literature.
- Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742): an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain.
