Am shot

• anseo: (Irish) present, here → the response a pupil makes when his name is called out during the roll-call at the start of school lessons

• anseo: (Latin) here I am

• Shut: FW 021.18 in the story of the Prankquean and Jarl van Hoother

• I'm shot: the Russian General? → some have suggested "shot by Cupid's arrow", introducing a sexual element into the process of creation → in Scylla and Charybdis (Ulysses, Episode 9, which in many ways is a counterpart to this chapter of FW) Joyce compares the process of artistic creation to sexual procreation → this interpretation gains support from Issy's accompanying footnote, which has obvious sexual overtones

• Ain Soph: in the Kabbalah, Ein Sof or Ain Soph (Hebrew אין סוף) is God prior to his self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual Realm, probably derived from Ibn Gabirol's term, "the Endless One" (she-en lo tiklah); Ain Soph may be translated as "no end," "unending," "there is no end," or Infinite

• shot: a measure of alcoholic spirits