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* '''blackguard:''' (''Hiberno-English'') a blaggard, ruffian, scroundrel
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* '''blackguard:''' (''Hiberno-English'') a blaggard, ruffian, scroundrel → Shem (or Dolph, as he is known in this chapter), acknowledging his presence in the schoolroom?
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* '''Biggar:''' Joseph Biggar, a diminutive hunchback MP who supported Parnell → in chapter I.1 he was equated with '''S''' the Man Servant in HCE's tavern → in Book I '''S''' opposes Shem, while in Book III he is identified with him; here he seems to be identified with him, if indeed ''Bigguard'' is '''S'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.McHughSigla.p0132&id=JoyceColl.McHughSigla&isize=M ''The Sigla of Finnegans Wake'']
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* '''big god:''' Ain Soph, the Kabbalistic idea of God in the infinite sense and as source of everything

Latest revision as of 11:13, 22 April 2011

  • blackguard: (Hiberno-English) a blaggard, ruffian, scroundrel → Shem (or Dolph, as he is known in this chapter), acknowledging his presence in the schoolroom?
  • Biggar: Joseph Biggar, a diminutive hunchback MP who supported Parnell → in chapter I.1 he was equated with S the Man Servant in HCE's tavern → in Book I S opposes Shem, while in Book III he is identified with him; here he seems to be identified with him, if indeed Bigguard is S
  • big god: Ain Soph, the Kabbalistic idea of God in the infinite sense and as source of everything