Difference between revisions of "Brontoichthyan"

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** Osiris has an erect penis in the plate opposite page 88 of Moret's ''Rois et Dieux d'Egypte'' → [[see peegee ought he ought]] ([[Page_6|FW 006.32]])
 
** Osiris has an erect penis in the plate opposite page 88 of Moret's ''Rois et Dieux d'Egypte'' → [[see peegee ought he ought]] ([[Page_6|FW 006.32]])
  
* '''ithyphallique:''' (''French'') designates poetry verses with three trochees → [[tricky trochee]] ([[Page_7|FW 007.1]])
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* '''ithyphallique:''' (''French'') designates poetry verses with three trochees → [[trochee]] ([[Page_7|FW 007.1]])
  
  

Revision as of 15:46, 30 March 2011

  • Brontosaurus + Ichthyosaurus: types of dinosaur → foreshadows the visit to the Wallinstone national museum between FW 008.01010.23, the extinct dinosaurs being humorously contrasted with the more recently deceased Duke of Wellington
  • ithyphallic: used of representations of the erect penis in art, and meaning lascivious by extension (originally referring to the phalluses carried in parade during the festivals of Bacchus, from Greek ithus, "straight" + phallos, "phallus")
  • ithyphallique: (French) designates poetry verses with three trochees → trochee (FW 007.1)


  • brontē (βροντη): (Greek) thunder → FW 003.15
  • ichthys (ιχθυς): (Greek) fish → an early Christian acronym for Christ → Fush
  • ichthyal: fishlike
  • Brontë: a literary family of Irish extraction → the Brontë foliation which litters this paragraph with allusions may have been suggested by the identification of the micturating girls with Lillie Langtry (FW 030.01: Lili O'Rangans), whose real name was Emily Charlotte Le BretonUlysses 703.02 ff: "Mrs Langtry the Jersey Lily the prince of Wales was in love with"