Difference between revisions of "Brewed by arclight"

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Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "Willy brewed a peck of maut; Noah planted the vine and was drunk"
- Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut: a song composed by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in Waterside, Moffat, Dumfriesshire. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "twins"

Genesis 9:20 - 9:21: "And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent" → see Shem

Arklow: a town in County Wicklow
- logi: (Old Norse) flame → Arklow was named after a Danish navigational beacon
- A Finnegan Wakes Gazetteer

light: a lamp in HCE's bedroom? Or is the allusion to his bright red nose, the result of overindulgence in alcohol?

Berkeley: George Berkeley (pronounced barklee), Irish philosopher and clergyman
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

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 * '''Brute''' mythical founder of Britain
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0129&isize=L&q1=Brute Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
+* '''Brut:''' a type of champagne
 * '''brood:''' offspring, children
-* '''Brut:''' a type of champagne
 * '''blued''' ? ([[L/R split]])