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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|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'':''' 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 |
* '''a tale of a tub:''' a cock-and-bull story; an apocryphal story | * '''a tale of a tub:''' a cock-and-bull story; an apocryphal story | ||
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* '''a tale of a time''' | * '''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'' → [[Page_3|003.01:]] [[bend of bay]] | + | * '''''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]] |
* '''teel:''' till | * '''teel:''' till | ||
* '''eel:''' kind of fish → this paragraph contains the names of many species of fish | * '''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 | ||
* '''tumulus''' | * '''tumulus''' | ||
* '''tum:''' the sound of a plucked string or drum → continuing the musical allusions in this paragraph | * '''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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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
