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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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* '''stable''' → the occurrence of ''born'' and ''stable'' in the same line inevitably allude to both Christ (who was supposedly born in a stable) and the Duke of Wellington (who famously remarked that being born in a stable did not necessarily make one a horse anymore than being born in Ireland made one an Irishman) | * '''stable''' → the occurrence of ''born'' and ''stable'' in the same line inevitably allude to both Christ (who was supposedly born in a stable) and the Duke of Wellington (who famously remarked that being born in a stable did not necessarily make one a horse anymore than being born in Ireland made one an Irishman) | ||
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| + | * '''Staple:''' basic food stuff - of other days- traditionally potato; distilled to potcheen a potent spirit | ||
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| + | * '''steeple:''' recalls the plot of 'Bygmester Solness' by Henrik Ibsen, in which the eponymous protagonist builds a steeple and then falls off it to his death | ||
Latest revision as of 03:17, 7 April 2018
- tower → staple
- steeple
- staple: wool; lock of wool
- staple: a u-shaped type of nail
- stable → the occurrence of born and stable in the same line inevitably allude to both Christ (who was supposedly born in a stable) and the Duke of Wellington (who famously remarked that being born in a stable did not necessarily make one a horse anymore than being born in Ireland made one an Irishman)
- Staple: basic food stuff - of other days- traditionally potato; distilled to potcheen a potent spirit
- steeple: recalls the plot of 'Bygmester Solness' by Henrik Ibsen, in which the eponymous protagonist builds a steeple and then falls off it to his death
