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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* '''Eiffel Tower''': FW was written in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world during most of its writing (until 1931)
 
* '''Eiffel Tower''': FW was written in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world during most of its writing (until 1931)
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130348 A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0348&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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Latest revision as of 16:17, 27 June 2012

  • awful height entirely
  • eyeful: as much as the eye can take in; something worth looking at
  • highth: an archaic form of heightheight is still pronounced highth in parts of Ireland and hoyt in parts of Dublin
  • Howth: Howth Head near Dublin
  • Hoyte: Lord Mayor of Dublin
  • Eiffel Tower: FW was written in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world during most of its writing (until 1931)