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* '''''A Tale of a Tub'':''' this is the second reference to ''A Tale of a Tub'', [[Jonathan_Swift|Jonathan Swift's]] 1704 literary sensation (the first is [[Page_4|FW 004.22:]] [[tete in a tub]], with reference to a tub and the adverb [[swiftly]] in the next line). The main section of ''A Tale of A Tub'' is an allegory involving three brothers who represent Catholicism, non-Anglican Protestantism, and Anglicanism; much of the rest is a collection of parodies of various writers and schools of thought. Very Wakian, and a key text for FW
  
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This is the second reference to "A Tale of a Tub," Jonathan Swift's 1704 literary sensation (the first is on page 4, with reference to a tub and the adverb "swiftly" in the same sentence). The main section of "Tub" is an allegory involving three brothers who represent Catholicism, non-Anglican Protestantism, and Anglicanism; much of the rest is a collection of parodies of various writers and schools of thought.  Very Wakian.
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* '''a tale of a tub:''' a cock-and-bull story; an apocryphal story
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** "The phrase ''A Tale of a Tub'' was used by Sir Thomas More to describe a pointless speech. Ben Jonson gave the name to an early comedy, in which one of the characters was ‘Squire Tub’. Defoe, in a pamphlet published in 1704, on the grievances of Irish Dissenters, speaks of a certain Bill as a ‘Tale of a Tub’, exactly in the sense here used by Swift, from whom it is quite possible that Defoe borrowed the phrase" – note by Henry Craik to ‘The Author's Preface’ from ''A Tale Of a Tub''
  
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Alexander Pope cited "tub" as slang for a pulpit.
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* '''tub:''' pulpit → Alexander Pope cited ''tub'' as slang for a pulpit
  
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Note by Henry Craik to The Author's Preface from "Tale Of A Tub":
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* '''a tale of a tomb'''
  
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* '''a tale of a time'''
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The phrase "A Tale of a Tub" was used by Sir Thomas More to describe a pointless speech. Ben Jonson gave the name to an early comedy, in which one of the characters was "Squire Tub." Defoe, in a pamphlet published in 1704, on the grievances of Irish Dissenters, speaks of a certain Bill as a "Tale of a Tub," exactly in the sense here used by Swift, from whom it is quite possible that Defoe borrowed the phrase.
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* '''''A Tale of a Town'':''' a play by Edward Martyn, revised by George Moore as ''The Bending of the Bough'' → [[Page_3|FW 003.01:]] [[bend of bay]]
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* '''teel:''' till
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* '''eel:''' kind of fish → this paragraph contains the names of many species of fish
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* '''Atum:''' the Egyptian god who created the world by masturbating on the primordial mud-heap → [[Mastabatoom]] on the previous page
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* '''tumulus'''
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* '''tum:''' the sound of a plucked string or drum → continuing the musical allusions in this paragraph
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* '''dumb:''' in FW, Swift is often described as being deaf-and-dumb → [[Taubling]] in the next line
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[[Category: Fishing]]
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[[Category:Jonathan Swift]]

Latest revision as of 07:55, 2 July 2012

  • A Tale of a Tub: this is the second reference to A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift's 1704 literary sensation (the first is FW 004.22: tete in a tub, with reference to a tub and the adverb swiftly in the next line). The main section of A Tale of A Tub is an allegory involving three brothers who represent Catholicism, non-Anglican Protestantism, and Anglicanism; much of the rest is a collection of parodies of various writers and schools of thought. Very Wakian, and a key text for FW
  • a tale of a tub: a cock-and-bull story; an apocryphal story
    • "The phrase A Tale of a Tub was used by Sir Thomas More to describe a pointless speech. Ben Jonson gave the name to an early comedy, in which one of the characters was ‘Squire Tub’. Defoe, in a pamphlet published in 1704, on the grievances of Irish Dissenters, speaks of a certain Bill as a ‘Tale of a Tub’, exactly in the sense here used by Swift, from whom it is quite possible that Defoe borrowed the phrase" – note by Henry Craik to ‘The Author's Preface’ from A Tale Of a Tub
  • tub: pulpit → Alexander Pope cited tub as slang for a pulpit
  • a tale of a tomb
  • a tale of a time
  • A Tale of a Town: a play by Edward Martyn, revised by George Moore as The Bending of the Bough → FW 003.01: bend of bay
  • teel: till
  • eel: kind of fish → this paragraph contains the names of many species of fish
  • Atum: the Egyptian god who created the world by masturbating on the primordial mud-heap → Mastabatoom on the previous page
  • tumulus
  • tum: the sound of a plucked string or drum → continuing the musical allusions in this paragraph
  • dumb: in FW, Swift is often described as being deaf-and-dumb → Taubling in the next line
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