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| + | * '''regginbrew''' → '''regginbrow''' | ||
| + | ** [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] | ||
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| + | * [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are [[rory|dew]] and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie; When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld"'' | ||
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* '''Regenbogen:''' (''German'') rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow | * '''Regenbogen:''' (''German'') rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow | ||
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* '''Genesis 9:12-16:''' the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world | * '''Genesis 9:12-16:''' the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world | ||
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* '''blau:''' (''German'') blue → [[L/R split]] | * '''blau:''' (''German'') blue → [[L/R split]] | ||
| − | * '''brow:''' eyebrow (on [[HCE|HCE's]] head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of Howth) | + | * '''brow:''' eyebrow (on [[HCE|HCE's]] head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of [[Howth Castle and Environs|Howth]]) |
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Latest revision as of 16:21, 5 July 2012
- regginbrew → regginbrow
- Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie; When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld"
- Regenbogen: (German) rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow
- Genesis 9:12-16: the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world
- reggia: (Italian) palace
- regina: (Latin) queen
- Regin: a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him
- brau: (German) brew
- blau: (German) blue → L/R split
