Difference between revisions of "Waterloose"

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Waterloo: a Belgian village near the site of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); FW 008.9 - 010.23 is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in Chapter 70 of his novel Les Misérables
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
- Wikipedia

water closet, loo → the outhouse in the backyard behind HCE's tavern
- Ulysses 531.19: "Waterloo. Watercloset."

watercourse → the name Waterloo is thought to derive from a Dutch word meaning watercourse → riverrun
- Wikipedia

Lucia Joyce: Joyce's daughter, whose was one of his principal models for Issy
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake

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-* '''Waterloo:''' a Belgian village near the site of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); [[Page_8|FW 008.9]] - [[Page_10|FW 010.23]] is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in Chapter 70 of his novel ''Les Mis&eacute;rables''
+* '''Waterloo:''' a Belgian village near the site of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); [[Page_8|FW 008.9]] - [[Page_10|010.23]] is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in Chapter 70 of his novel ''Les Mis&eacute;rables''
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130583&q1=Waterloo A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
 ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo Wikipedia]
 * '''water closet, loo''' &rarr; the outhouse in the backyard behind [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern
-** ''[[Ulysses]]'' 531.19: "Waterloo. Watercloset."
+** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 531.19:''' "Waterloo. Watercloset."
 * '''waterless''' &rarr; the Flood which ends FW is beginning to abate