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* '''still out to mathmaster''' → Adaline Glasheen discerns an allusion to Dublin's patron saint Laurence O'Toole (his surname in "still") and London's Thomas à Becket (his first name in '''''to m''athmaster''') | * '''still out to mathmaster''' → Adaline Glasheen discerns an allusion to Dublin's patron saint Laurence O'Toole (his surname in "still") and London's Thomas à Becket (his first name in '''''to m''athmaster''') | ||
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160248&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160248&isize=M Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
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| + | * '''Professor of Mathematics''': '''Éamon de Valera''', born 1882, professor of mathematics in Dublin colleges including Belvedere. Nominal head of the anti-Treaty forces (Baddelaries partisans FW 004.03) during the Irish Civil War. | ||
Revision as of 04:08, 12 August 2008
- mathētēs (μαθητης): (Greek) pupil → contest between a pupil and his master?
- m-m-master: master said with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter is always a sign of his guilt
- MacMaster ?
- mathmaster → to overcome by means of logic, reason and strategy? → to outwit? (Joyce's coinage)
- mathematics ?
- still out to mathmaster → Adaline Glasheen discerns an allusion to Dublin's patron saint Laurence O'Toole (his surname in "still") and London's Thomas à Becket (his first name in to mathmaster)
- Professor of Mathematics: Éamon de Valera, born 1882, professor of mathematics in Dublin colleges including Belvedere. Nominal head of the anti-Treaty forces (Baddelaries partisans FW 004.03) during the Irish Civil War.
