Sesthers

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Esthers: Swift's Stella & Vanessa both had the name Esther; cf. letter, 15/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver

Esther: eponymous character in the Biblical Book of Esther; like Swift's Stella & Vanessa, she is the subject of an older man's advances
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

sesthers: sisters

cf. FW 096.11 ff: "stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find she was mushymushy, and wasn't that very both of them, the sauciscissters ... (peep!) ... (peepette!)"

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