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| − | * '''rust:''' (''Dutch'') rest → Dutch because of the Dutch House of Orange from which the hero of the Irish Protestants | + | * '''on the green always & ever''' → '''laid on the green ever & evermore''' → '''have been laid to rust upon the green''' |
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | ||
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| + | * '''rust:''' (''Dutch'') rest → Dutch because of the Dutch House of Orange from which the hero of the Irish Protestants, William III (King Billy, William of Orange), came | ||
* '''laid to rest:''' dead and buried → the Orange invaders have been laid to rest | * '''laid to rest:''' dead and buried → the Orange invaders have been laid to rest | ||
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* '''rut:''' sexual intercourse among mammals → in this context, '''laid''' also has sexual overtones | * '''rut:''' sexual intercourse among mammals → in this context, '''laid''' also has sexual overtones | ||
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| + | * '''green:''' symbolic of Ireland's Catholic, Nationalist or Republican faction (especially in Ulster) → [[ALP]] is a Catholic | ||
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| + | * '''green:''' a village green | ||
| + | ** '''there were wigs on the green:''' there was a public altercation; scuffles broke out | ||
| + | ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 337.27:''' "there'd be wigs on the green" | ||
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| + | * '''oranges ... upon the green:''' [[HCE]], a Protestant, having sexual intercourse with his wife [[ALP]], a Catholic | ||
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| + | * '''Song of Solomon 1:16: '''"Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon] | ||
| + | [[Category:green]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Old Testament]] | ||
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| + | *'''Rust upon the Green''': reference to the flag of Ireland, with green and orange bordering white. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:28, 3 February 2015
- on the green always & ever → laid on the green ever & evermore → have been laid to rust upon the green
- rust: (Dutch) rest → Dutch because of the Dutch House of Orange from which the hero of the Irish Protestants, William III (King Billy, William of Orange), came
- laid to rest: dead and buried → the Orange invaders have been laid to rest
- rust: iron oxide → rust turns iron orange
- rut: sexual intercourse among mammals → in this context, laid also has sexual overtones
- green: symbolic of Ireland's Catholic, Nationalist or Republican faction (especially in Ulster) → ALP is a Catholic
- green: a village green
- there were wigs on the green: there was a public altercation; scuffles broke out
- Ulysses 337.27: "there'd be wigs on the green"
- oranges ... upon the green: HCE, a Protestant, having sexual intercourse with his wife ALP, a Catholic
- Song of Solomon 1:16: "Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green."[1]
- Rust upon the Green: reference to the flag of Ireland, with green and orange bordering white.
