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* '''cubby house:''' cubby hole | * '''cubby house:''' cubby hole | ||
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| + | * '''club house:''' the freemason's lodge | ||
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| + | * '''cube:''' a block of stone either litteraly (as used Finnegan the builder) or metaphorically (as used Finnegan the freemason) | ||
Latest revision as of 23:02, 6 July 2009
- Ka'aba: the shrine within the Great Mosque at Mecca which houses Islam's Black Stone; the name literally means "cube-house"
- This begins a half-paragraph teeming with references to Islam. In early 1938, Joyce read and annotated the first 101 pages of The Story of Mohammed, a 189-page biography of the Prophet by Edith Holland. He incorporated some of this material in these lines from page 005 of Wake, twelve years after he had first drafted this page
- Introducing Islam in Finnegans Wake: The Story of Mohammed in VI.B.45, by Aida Yared
- caboose: a hut
- cubby house: cubby hole
- club house: the freemason's lodge
- cube: a block of stone either litteraly (as used Finnegan the builder) or metaphorically (as used Finnegan the freemason)
