Difference between revisions of "Tumptytumtoes"
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* tumulus: a burial mound; a tomb | * tumulus: a burial mound; a tomb | ||
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Revision as of 14:37, 26 July 2006
- Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscapr, with his head beneath Howth (Da hoved: head) and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
- tum-ti-tum: a reiterated strumming, as of a stringed instrument
- t-t-t-toes: stuttering → HCE is a stutterer, like Parnell, his "hesitancy of speech" betraying his guilt
- tum, tummy: stomach
- tumulus: a burial mound; a tomb
- tum → tomb → the tomb of Isolde at Chapelizod(?)
