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* '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
 
* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty Wikipedia]

Revision as of 01:45, 3 June 2008

  • Humpty Dumpty → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
  • humped, humpbackedHCE is a hunchback
  • hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish: hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park