Venissoon

• venisoon → venissoon
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans wake

• Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "The venison purveyor Jacob got the blessing meant for Esau"
  • Genesis 27:25: "And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank"; cf. Thuartpeatrick

• venison: deer → St Patrick was transformed into a deer to protect him from the wrath of the High King Laoghaire when he lit the Paschal Fire on the Hill of Tara
  • Deer perhaps points to stag; terms for various kinds of deer are found throughout the text, including doe and pricket. Thursday, "Thor's Day" or the day of thunder, in German is Donnerstag.

• Vanessa: Jonathan Swift's name for Hester Vanhomrigh, one of his two mistresses.
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Venice
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• venissoon → Issy

• Venus: Roman goddess of love, usually associated in FW with Issy
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• veni: (Latin) 1. I came; 2. come! (imperative, singular)

• venissoon after: very soon after

• After: (German) anus; ass, buttocks