Downtrodden brogue

• bróg (Irish) shoe.

• Gemini The constellation Gemini looks vaguely like a shoe. And like the Twins, shoes come in pairs.

• brogue A strong dialectal accent, especially an Irish one. When Wyndham Lewis first met Joyce in Paris in 1920, he described him and his son Giorgio to T S Eliot: "What provincials they are, bless their beastly brogues!" But this was published in 1937 (L]in Lewis's memoir Blasting and Bombardiering), so it is probably irrelevant. The principal reason Eliot and Lewis met Joyce, however, was to deliver a pair of brown shoes from Ezra Pound.