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| − | * ' | + | * '''mathētēs (μαθητης):''' (''Greek'') pupil → contest between a pupil and his master? |
| − | * | + | * '''math:''' (''Anglo-Saxon'') mow, cut down |
| − | * | + | * '''math:''' (''Sanskrit'') annihilate |
| − | * | + | * '''math:''' (''Hindi'') hut; monastery |
| − | * mathematics? | + | * '''m-m-master:''' ''master'' said with a stutter → in FW [[HCE|HCE's]] stutter is always a sign of his guilt |
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| + | * '''MacMaster''' ? | ||
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| + | * '''mathmaster''' → to overcome by means of logic, reason and strategy? → to outwit? (Joyce's coinage) | ||
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| + | * '''mathematics''' ? | ||
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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''') | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0249&isize=L&q1=mathmaster 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 | ||
Latest revision as of 08:27, 30 April 2011
- mathētēs (μαθητης): (Greek) pupil → contest between a pupil and his master?
- math: (Anglo-Saxon) mow, cut down
- math: (Sanskrit) annihilate
- math: (Hindi) hut; monastery
- 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
