Difference between revisions of "Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of"

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'''hitherandthithering''': cf. Portrait of the Artist: "Long, long she suffered his gaze and then quietly withdrew her eyes from his and bent them towards the stream, gently stirring the water with her foot '''hither and thither'''. The first faint noise of gently moving water broke the silence, low and faint and whispering, faint as the bells of sleep; '''hither and thither, hither and thither''';"
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* '''Beside the rivering waters of, hither & thither waters of''' → '''Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0140&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''hitherandthithering''': the phrase "hither and thither" appears 9 times in ''Portrait''
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** Cf. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/paym/paym.cgi?word=hither+and+thither A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]
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* '''Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of''' has somewhat common rhythmic structure with '''[[Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk]]'''
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* '''By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.''' (''Psalms'' 137.1) King James versions, others have "waters" in place of "rivers", "beside: instead of "by".
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[[Category: Old Testament]]
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[[Category: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]

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