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* '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself'''
 
* '''the humpty hill himself''' → '''the humpty hillhead himself''' → '''humptyhillhead of humself'''
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L&q1=father A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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** [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]
  
 
* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]]
 
* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → [[Humpty Dumpty]]

Revision as of 02:39, 30 April 2009

  • 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