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* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Isthmus of Sutton a neck of land between [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth] head and the plain"''
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* '''on a merry isthmus ''' → '''on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
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* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Isthmus of Sutton a neck of land between [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth]] head and the plain"''
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* '''happy Xmas''' → [[Page_197|FW 197.15:]] [[happy isthmass]]
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* '''scraggy:''' unkempt, straggling, irregular
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** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 027.27:''' "His [Sargent's] tangled hair and scraggy neck..."
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* '''craggy:''' full of crags or broken rocks; rough, rugged
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* '''scragged:''' rough, rugged
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* '''scrag:''' neck
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* '''scraggy:''' thin, bony, often applied to the neck.  If Howth Head is Finnegan's head then the scraggy isthmus, the isthmus of Sutton, is his neck
  
 
* '''Isthmus of Sutton:''' a narrow isthmus located about 12km from the centre of Dublin at the base of the [[Howth]] [[peninsula]]. It is a tombolo and connects [[Howth]] to the mainland.
 
* '''Isthmus of Sutton:''' a narrow isthmus located about 12km from the centre of Dublin at the base of the [[Howth]] [[peninsula]]. It is a tombolo and connects [[Howth]] to the mainland.
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** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=0&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=53.407485,-6.16333&spn=0.19279,0.553436&z=11 Google Maps]
 
** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=0&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=53.407485,-6.16333&spn=0.19279,0.553436&z=11 Google Maps]
  
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* '''isthmos (ισθμος):''' (''Greek'') neck; peninsula → [[Scraggy_isthmus|scraggy]]
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* '''isthmos (ισθμος):''' (''Greek'') neck; peninsula
  
 
* '''eastmost:'''  (''adj'') easternmost, farthest east
 
* '''eastmost:'''  (''adj'') easternmost, farthest east
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* A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas usually with waterforms on either side. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmus]
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** Canals are commonly built on them to join two waterforms.
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* In anatomy, isthmus refers to a constriction between organs. This is a list of '''anatomical isthmi''': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anatomical_isthmi]
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** "Isthmus" the mesencephalon (midbrain) - rhombencephalon(hindbrain) boundary
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** Isthmus faucium (Throat)
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** Isthmus glandularis or Thyroid isthmus
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** Isthmus tubae auditivae (Eustachian tube)
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** Isthmus tubae uterinae (Fallopian tube - Part of female reproduction organs)
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** Uterine isthmus (Part of female reproduction organs)
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** Isthmus prostatae (Prostate - Part of male reproduction organs)
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*** The uterine isthmus and isthmus tubae uterinae is essential for female reproduction and continuing cycle of life. As is the Isthmus prostatae in males.
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** Isthmus urethrae (Urethra)
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*** The Isthmus urethrae connects the bladder with the world's water ways continuing the water cycle.
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** Cavo-tricuspid isthmus of the right atrium of the heart, a body of fibrous tissue in the lower atrium between the inferior vena cava, and the tricuspid valve.
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* "Scraggly isthmus of Europe Minor" = isthmus not of land but of boats (scraggly trade routes) that were the first to connect Europe to North America.
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* '''Europe Minor'''
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0355&isize=L&q1=Europe%20Minor A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* Just as the Isthmus of Sutton separates Howth from the rest of Ireland, so the Bosphorus separates Europe and Asia → wars between Greece and Persia, symbolizing the conflict between east and west, and between the old and the new
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* Peloponnesian War between two confederacies led respectively by Sparta (on the Peloponnesian peninsula) and Athens (on the other side of the Isthmus of Corinth) → [[penisolate war]]
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* '''Asia Minor:''' the colonial name for Anatolia
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0254&isize=L&q1=Asia%20Minor A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor Wikipedia]
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* Europa, daughter (descendant) of Ocean and Tethys, mother of Minos, ravaged by Zeus who, in the form of a bull abducted her to Crete.

Latest revision as of 05:06, 26 April 2012

  • scraggy: unkempt, straggling, irregular
    • Ulysses 027.27: "His [Sargent's] tangled hair and scraggy neck..."
  • craggy: full of crags or broken rocks; rough, rugged
  • scragged: rough, rugged
  • scrag: neck
  • scraggy: thin, bony, often applied to the neck. If Howth Head is Finnegan's head then the scraggy isthmus, the isthmus of Sutton, is his neck
  • isthmos (ισθμος): (Greek) neck; peninsula
  • eastmost: (adj) easternmost, farthest east
  • A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas usually with waterforms on either side. [1]
    • Canals are commonly built on them to join two waterforms.
  • In anatomy, isthmus refers to a constriction between organs. This is a list of anatomical isthmi: [2]
    • "Isthmus" the mesencephalon (midbrain) - rhombencephalon(hindbrain) boundary
    • Isthmus faucium (Throat)
    • Isthmus glandularis or Thyroid isthmus
    • Isthmus tubae auditivae (Eustachian tube)
    • Isthmus tubae uterinae (Fallopian tube - Part of female reproduction organs)
    • Uterine isthmus (Part of female reproduction organs)
    • Isthmus prostatae (Prostate - Part of male reproduction organs)
      • The uterine isthmus and isthmus tubae uterinae is essential for female reproduction and continuing cycle of life. As is the Isthmus prostatae in males.
    • Isthmus urethrae (Urethra)
      • The Isthmus urethrae connects the bladder with the world's water ways continuing the water cycle.
    • Cavo-tricuspid isthmus of the right atrium of the heart, a body of fibrous tissue in the lower atrium between the inferior vena cava, and the tricuspid valve.
  • "Scraggly isthmus of Europe Minor" = isthmus not of land but of boats (scraggly trade routes) that were the first to connect Europe to North America.
  • Just as the Isthmus of Sutton separates Howth from the rest of Ireland, so the Bosphorus separates Europe and Asia → wars between Greece and Persia, symbolizing the conflict between east and west, and between the old and the new
  • Peloponnesian War between two confederacies led respectively by Sparta (on the Peloponnesian peninsula) and Athens (on the other side of the Isthmus of Corinth) → penisolate war
  • Europa, daughter (descendant) of Ocean and Tethys, mother of Minos, ravaged by Zeus who, in the form of a bull abducted her to Crete.
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