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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|010.23]] is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in Chapter 70 of his novel ''Les Misérables''
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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|010.23]] is, among other things, an account of the battle after Victor Hugo's description in his novel ''Les Misérables''
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130583&q1=Waterloo A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
 
** [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]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo Wikipedia]
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** [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 ''Les Misérables]
  
 
* '''water closet, loo''' → the outhouse in the backyard behind [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern
 
* '''water closet, loo''' → the outhouse in the backyard behind [[HCE|HCE's]] tavern

Revision as of 10:20, 25 September 2010

  • water closet, loo → the outhouse in the backyard behind HCE's tavern
    • Ulysses 531.19: "Waterloo. Watercloset."
  • waterless → the Flood which ends FW is beginning to abate
  • watercourse → the name Waterloo is thought to derive from a Dutch word meaning watercourseriverrun