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* '''Haroun Childeric Eggebert:''' [[HCE]]
  
May be a play on Heron of Alexandria, who made breakthroughs in math and geometry, including a method for determining the area of a triangle -- suggested by the following words "caligulate by multiplicables the alltitude" (calculate by multiplication the altitude)
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* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroun_al-Raschid Haroun-al-Rashid]:''' the Caliph of Baghdad in ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights''
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** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 046.34: "Remember. Haroun al Raschid"
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** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 506.08: "For the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid"
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** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 544.26: "''Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws his caliph’s hood and poncho and hurries down the steps with sideways face. Incog Haroun al Raschid, he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard strewing the drag behind him, torn envelopes drenched in aniseed.''"
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* '''Hārūn:''' the Islamic name for the Old Testament character Aaron, the eloquent brother of Moses, who spoke for him, as Moses had a speech impediment (Exodus 4.10) → 004:18: [[Stuttering]] → 004.23: [[moses]] → 004.34 [[of other days]]
  
NB: Harun is also the Islamic name for the Old Testament character Aaron, the brother of Moses; this same paragraph in Wake refers to Moses and the first books of the Bible.
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* '''Heron:''' in Egyptian mythology the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennu Bennu] or Phoenix was usually depicted as a heron → in pagan Ireland Druids imitated the heron when casting spells by standing on one leg, with one arm outstretched and one eye closed
  
NB: The paragraph begins with a reference to "the Stuttering Hand"; Moses had a speech impediment, and Aaron spoke for him.
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* '''Heron of Alexandria:''' engineer and geometer of the 1st century; he made breakthroughs in math and geometry, including a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27s_formula formula] for determining the area of a triangle → 004.32-33: "caligulate by multiplicables the alltitude" (calculate by multiplication the altitude)

Revision as of 03:16, 25 June 2006

  • Haroun Childeric Eggebert: HCE
  • Haroun-al-Rashid: the Caliph of Baghdad in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
    • Ulysses 046.34: "Remember. Haroun al Raschid"
    • Ulysses 506.08: "For the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid"
    • Ulysses 544.26: "Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws his caliph’s hood and poncho and hurries down the steps with sideways face. Incog Haroun al Raschid, he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard strewing the drag behind him, torn envelopes drenched in aniseed."
  • Hārūn: the Islamic name for the Old Testament character Aaron, the eloquent brother of Moses, who spoke for him, as Moses had a speech impediment (Exodus 4.10) → 004:18: Stuttering → 004.23: moses → 004.34 of other days
  • Heron: in Egyptian mythology the Bennu or Phoenix was usually depicted as a heron → in pagan Ireland Druids imitated the heron when casting spells by standing on one leg, with one arm outstretched and one eye closed
  • Heron of Alexandria: engineer and geometer of the 1st century; he made breakthroughs in math and geometry, including a formula for determining the area of a triangle → 004.32-33: "caligulate by multiplicables the alltitude" (calculate by multiplication the altitude)