how I beheld
grandiose - producing an effect or impression of grandeur or greatness; characterized by largeness of plan or nobility of design + Joyce's note: 'grandiose'.
scotography - the exhibition of the effect of the Röntgen rays; the production of a picture by means of such rays (literally 'darkness writing').
extravert = extrovert - a person given to or characterized by extroversion; a sociable or unreserved person.
Davy - miners' safety lamp + "such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the Gravys," [030.06-.07]
Magh Ard (ma ard) (gael) - High Plain; anglic. Moyard + You Are My Heart's Delight (song).
daylight + day/night.
Tom Thumb - a dwarf or pigmy of popular tradition or fable, whose history was common as a chap-book; hence a name for a dwarf or diminutive male person; also contemptuously, a petty or insignificant person, a pigmy holder of a high position.
melodious + miel (French) - honey + melodrous (l) - smelling of honey + FDV: — Do you mean, I insinuated, that verdure or varnish will? + {will the green vanish?}
chant - a song, melody; singing + bel canto - (It. = fine song) singing characterized by full, rich, and broad tone + Belcanto (or Bello) - Wyndham Lewis in The Childermass, uses this name to signify Joyce when he quarrels with a "rival clown," Chodoveo.
songbird - a singing-bird; a superb (female) singer
afterthought - reflection after the act; a thought which did not occur at the time when the matter to which it refers was under consideration + After (ger) - anus + (fart).
buccinate - 'to blow a trumpet' + Vulgate Psalms 80:4: 'Buccinate in neomenia tuba in insigni die solemnitats vestrae (l) - Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day'.
Emania - ancient capital of Ulster
tuba - a brass wind-instrument in the bass range of the sax-horn family; the straight bronze war-trumpet of the ancient Romans
insignia (l) - mark, sign
Fion, Paustheen ('fair-haired child') - an Irish air + a phaistin fionn (a fasht'in fin) (gael) - O fair-haired child.
Portobello - district of South Dublin + pont (fr) - bridge + Beal Leice (bel leki) (gael) - Mouth of the Flagstone, Co. Fermanagh; anglic. Belleek + beleg (Breton) - priest.
merched (Breton) - daughters + Cattle Market, North Dublin.
ledan (Breton) - broad
striz (Breton) - narrow
substantively - in substance or effect, substantially, inherently
verdure - the fresh green colour characteristic of flourishing vegetation; plants or trees, or parts of these, in a green and flourishing state
varnish - to overlay with a thin coating composed of varnish; to invest with a bright or glossy appearance
confound - to mix up in idea, fail to distinguish + (notebook 1924): 'it is a confounded lie to say I counted it (a £ notes)' ['it (a £ notes)' not clear] + FDV: — In, Shaun replied, the other postal office albeit blessed with 22,000 sorters out of a possible 22,000, too much administrative stationery was eaten by goats. It is also one of my [avowed] intentions at sometime some time to make a book concerning that matter.
injective - of the nature of or pertaining to an injection. Math. A one-to-one transformation, esp. (formerly) an inclusion; fig. The 'throwing in' or active introduction of something from without, as of an idea into the mind, or of a statement into an argument, etc.; that which is so introduced, a suggestion, a hint + invective - abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.
fiery - ardent, spirited; fiercely irritable; easily moved to violent anger + fairy.
incensed - inflamed with wrath, enraged + (notebook 1923): 'incensed (Kev)'.
red pepper - the prepared fruit of Capsicum fastigiatum, an active stimulant, used chiefly as a condiment + (notebook 1924): 'salt & pepper in ear'.
auricle - pinna, ear-flap, the externally-visible portion of the ear
confine - fig. To keep within bounds, limit, restrict.
glaring - that displays itself openly; obtrusively evident or conspicuous
insinuation - the suggestion or hinting of anything indirectly, covertly, or by allusion or implication
mordant - harshly ironic or sinister, causing pain + mortal.
physiog - humorous colloquial abbreviation of physiognomy (the face or countenance, especially viewed as an index to the mind and character)
furnace - to exhale like a furnace (an apparatus consisting essentially of a chamber to contain combustibles for the purpose of subjecting minerals, metals, etc. to the continuous action of intense heat; the fire of a volcano; the volcano itself) + furnished.
verjuice
- the acid juice of green or unripe grapes, crab-apples, or other sour fruit,
expressed and formed into a liquor + Joyce's note: 'What
wd I be doing?'
fix - to settle definitely; to arrange, get ready, put in order
for the time being - during the period under consideration + tiom (t'im) (gael) - lukewarm + teo (Breton) - big + teom (Hebrew) - twin + tehom (Hebrew) - abyss + O'Beachain (o'byakhan) (gael) - descendant of Beachan (diminutive of beach, "bee"); anglic. Behan + bihan (Breton) = bihan (Cornish) - small, little + Behan (*S*).
Angra Mainyu - Ahriman, Zoroastrian god of evil
French pastry - a rich pastry made esp from puff pastry and filled with cream, fruit, etc.
quoth - Used with ns., or pronouns of the first and third persons, to indicate that the words of a speaker are being repeated
Stage superstition no title with 'golden' not say tag Macbeth bad not whistle not quote Hamlet no peacock's feathers (notebook 1922-23) → Daily Mail 18 Nov 1922: 'Actors Less Superstitious by Gordon Street': (refers to "bad luck" stage superstitions such as) 'the word "golden" in its title... whistle in their dressing rooms... speak the "tag" of the play - the last few words - before the end of the first performance... actress came into the theatre with peacock's feathers... quoted from "Hamlet" in a dressing room'.
parcel post - that branch of the postal service which undertakes the carriage and distribution of parcels + Purcell, Patch - in the 19th century, the principal mail-coach owner in Ireland + (notebook 1924): 'understand me when I tell you there is still a P.O ...'
erstwhile - former + Joyce's note: 'erstwhile' + (notebook 1924): 'so much deplored by my H's friend' ('my' not clear).
Irish Goat Society sec Miss Sanders (notebook 1924) → Irish Independent 3 Jan 1924, 4/5: 'Return of Some Old Remedies. Garlic and Goats': 'A Trillick lady, Miss Sanders, for some years Secretary of the Irish Goat Society, has been doing good work in spreading a knowledge of the animal's many good qualities' + 4-stage Viconian cycle: birth (Miss), marriage (Mrs), death (P.L.M.), ricorso (Miss) [413.05] [413.14-.15] [414.02]
postmistress - a woman who has charge of a post office + poach - to cook in a simmering liquid; to hunt illegally.
gay - brilliant, attractive, charming + gay deceiver - a charming, deceitful rake.
receiver - an official, officer, or servant appointed to receive money due; a treasurer, collector + William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing II.3.54: 'men were deceivers ever'.
for, in, as to, etc. (one's) particular - in (one's) own case, for (one's) own part, as far as (oneself) is concerned (obs.)
Scotic - pertaining to the ancient Scots + Scotia (l) - Ireland.
Glas Gainach (from Irish legend) - 'a cow that is better than a thousand cows' + Ulysses.15.3106: 'His sire's milk record was a thousand gallons of whole milk in forty weeks'.
asthore (Anglo-Irish) = a stór (Irish) - my precious, my treasure, darling
sorter - one who sorts, arranges, selects, or classifies; spec. A letter-sorter + (notebook 1924): 'blessed with 22,000 officials' → Leader 15 Mar 1924, 125/1: 'Current Topics': 'The increase in officialdom is a modern tendency in many countries... On October 1st last year, the Saorstat was blessed with 22,260 government officials'.
poss - post ? + (notebook 1923): 'Biggest possible' + (notebook 1924): 'out of a possible 90'.
minus one
privet - obs. form of private
stationery - paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters (usually with matching envelopes) + (notebook 1924): 'goats eat administrative stationery in PO' ('y' not clear).
softy - characterized by softness + Saft (ger) - juice + sauve-qui-peut (fr) - save himself who can + safety equipment.
quipu - a device of the ancient Peruvians and others for recording events, keeping accounts, sending messages, etc., consisting of cords or threads of various colours, knotted in various ways [Joyce's note: 'quipu' → Clodd: The Story of the Alphabet 36: 'The Mnemonic Stage. - This is well represented by "quipus" or knotted cords, and by wampums or shell-ornamented belts'].
largely - in a large measure; to a great extent; freely, without restraint
nettlesome - easily nettled, irritable + meddlesome - intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner.
goat - a fool, a dupe
greed - inordinate or insatiate longing, esp. for wealth; avaricious or covetous desire
colpa di becco (it) - cuckold's fault + corpo di bacco (it) - by Jove! + colpa (Irish) - unit of grazing animals + becco (Spanish) - he-goat.
bon appetit - (Fr. = 'good appetite') a salutation before eating + buon (it) - good + partita (it) - game; leaving + Buonaparte.
avowal - an act of avowing; acknowledgement, declaration + Joyce's note: 'his intentions'
POD (Slang) - Post Office Directory + please God,
murther - murderer + mother + murthers (Irish Pronunciation) - murders + please mother of God.
apt - suited to its purpose; suitable, appropriate
apt + up to scratch - to the standard expected or demanded.
compound - to put together, combine, compose
making - poetical composition; poetizing, versifying. Also pl. = poetical compositions, poems (obs) + markings + (notebook 1924): 'making a book *V*'.
verdigris - a green or greenish blue substance obtained artificially by the action of dilute acetic acid on thin plates of copper and much used as a pigment, in dyeing, the arts, and medicine.
savings book - a book in which an official record is kept of sums deposited and withdrawn by the holder and of interest accrued + (notebook 1923): 'Is had 15/- in P.O. Savings Bk'.
Capri - name of an island in the Bay of Naples + capri (l) - goat's, of a goat + capricious.
boxing gloves - gloves for fighting with fists
musketeer - a soldier armed with a musket + Welsh Fusiliers (have goat for mascot).
Mr Knuth points out that "sindybuck" = Dutch zondebok, "scapegoat" + Sundenbock (ger) - scapegoat.
Bruno Giordano, byname IL NOLANO (b. 1548, Nola, near Naples - d. Feb. 17, 1600, Rome) + BROWNE AND NOLAN - Printers, publishers, and booksellers; at 24-25 Nassau Street at the turn of the century, now in Dawson Street, with works at Clonskeagh; owners of the Richview Press. This well-known firm provides a Dublin habitation for James Joyce's preoccupation with Giordano Bruno of Nola ("the Nolan"), and "Browne" and "Nolan" become pseudonyms for Shem and Shaun.
Nihil Obstat (l) - Nothing stands in the way (certificate by censor librorum that no religious or moral consideration prohibits publication of a book; permission to print).
Christcross - the figure or mark of a cross in general; esp. that made in 'signing' his name by a person who cannot write + Imprimatu. (+) N.N., episcopus (l) - Let it be printed. (+) [signature], Bishop (bishop's warrant to print a book, contingent on the Nihil Obstat).