savour - to relish, enjoy (flavours); to give oneself to the enjoyment or appreciation of
flavour - a smell, odour; an undefinable characteristic quality instinctively apprehended; piquancy, zest
heliotrope - moderate purple color
eyelids + tulips.
drench - to wet thoroughly by immersion; to steep, soak, saturate; fig. To drown, immerse, plunge.
preserved - kept safe, protected; kept in existence, maintained, retained, etc.
lit. sowohl (ger) - so much + saavel her som herefter (Danish) - now as well as hereafter + zowel... als (Dutch) - both... and.
hereafter - after this, future
Heaven's + Mary Ann Evans - real name of George Eliot.
Chinatown - a section of a large town, especially a sea-port, in which Chinese live as a colony and to a great extent follow their own customs + Pearce: Sims Reeves, Fifty Years of Music in England 45n: '"Miss Romer... had... the smallest foot ever possessed by a European lady"'.
jolly - Used as an admiring intensive, deriving its meaning from the context.
dainty - of delicate or tender beauty or grace; delicately pretty
Peking + speaking truly + tluly spak (notebook 1930).
"Last night I saw a proof-piece of seven-shilling pieces. I know they were not uttered, but could you get me one from the Mint?" + prøvestykke (Danish) - assay piece + (test of skill for apprentice shoemaker).
chaplain - the priest, clergyman or minister of a chapel; spec. A clergyman who conducts religious service in the private chapel of a sovereign, lord, or high offical, of a private chapel, institution, ship, branch of the armed forces, etc.
Lambay Island, north of Howth + Lambeth Palace, residence of Archbishop of Canterbury.
A regionary bishop was properly a missionary invested with an episcopal character, but without being attached to any particular see + (notebook 1930): 'Regionary Bishop' → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 282: (of the Liberal Catholic Church) 'the distinguished theosophical teacher, Charles W. Leadbeater, of Krishnamurti fame... was consecrated as Regionary Bishop of Australia'.
always sadfaced (Joyce's note) → John Dowland, supposedly born in Dalkey, wrote lute music, some celebrating his sadness.
lutestring - a kind of glossy silk fabric; a dress or a ribbon of this material
ducape - a heavy corded silk dress fabric popular chiefly in the 18th century + (notebook 1930): 'Dewcapes Lute string' (the 'D' looks quite like a 'P') → Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 156: 'Damask, Tabbies, Ducapes, Lute String, Paduasoys, black calicoes, and russets for petticoats all could be seen at "The Blackamoor's Head", where the owner moved from Francis Street into Dame Street'.
tabinet - a watered fabric of silk and wool resembling poplin: chiefly associated with Ireland
reins - the kidneys; the region of the kidneys, the loins + Psalms 7:9: 'For the righteous God trieth the heart and reins' + (notebook 1924): 'his reins *T* & *L*' → Chateaubriand: uvres Choisies Illustrées I.68, Atala: 'celui qui sonde les reins et les curs vous jugera sur vos intentions, qui étaient pures' (French 'he who tries loins and hearts will judge you by your intentions, that were pure').
imposition - spec. The laying on of hands in blessing, ordination, confirmation, etc.
also + Oslo.
thumb + Ulysses.15.3681: 'His criminal thumbprint on the haddock' (haddock is supposed to bear Saint Peter's fingerprints).
Luke 22:12: 'and he shall shew you a large upper room furnished' (Last Supper)
loud speakers (notebook 1924) → Irish Times 29 Mar 1924, 7/6: 'Lr. Sean McGarry said that there were sets manufactured in Dublin by two or three people. Valves and loud speakers were the only things they imported'.
complimentary - conveying or resembling a compliment + Joyce's note: 'some complimentary things' → The Times 27 May 1924, 23/3: 'Byfleet Poison Charge': (Vaquier's statement read in a trial of the murder by poison of Mr Jones, an English hotel landlord, by Vaquier, a French tenant and lover of the landlord's wife) 'Mrs. Jones...insisted that I should return to her some complimentary things she has written to me' ('complimentary' may be a mistranscription, on the part of the newspaper, of 'compromising').
SDV: My clergyman chaplain an always sadfaced man, [who has visited my our very reins & hearts], with the aid help of my wife I mean to say, can speak to you [some] quite complimentary things of my private morals as clean clean character in the dark.
(notebook 1924): 'character what a man is in dark (Africa)' → Crawford: Back to the Long Grass 117: 'the geography of Africa is akin to its morality. And if you accept the crushing old certainty that "Character is what a man is in the dark," then you have only to modify your noun as an adjective and what do you get? Why, this, that Character is what a man is all alone in the Dark Continent'.
distressful - fraught with, causing, or involving distress; causing distress or worry or anxiety
recital - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; a detailed account or description of something + (notebook 1923): 'recital painful to him'.
frankfurter - a highly seasoned smoked beef and pork sausage, originally made at Frankfurt am Main + Frankfurt.
tambourines + numbers.
eins (ger) - one + zwei (ger) - two + drei (ger) - three + vier (ger) - four.
fourposter - a four-posted bedstead
tuny - characterized by 'tune' or melody; melodious: sometimes depreciative + (notebook 1930): 'Tunis'.
chantry - singing or chanting (of the mass; in 16th century Dublin, guilds organised chantry by four priests) (obs.); a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor.
Castrucci - 18th-century violinist, brought to Dublin by Mosse to play for the benefit of the Lying-in Hospital. He died in Dublin in 1752.
de Mellos - 18th century conductor; followed Castrucci and established opera on Fishamble Street
wapping = whopping - of surpassing excellence, uncommonly good, first-rate + whipping + (notebook 1930): 'wapping' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VI, ch. V: 'the Van Higginbottoms, of Wapping's Creek... came armed with ferrules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect'.
oldster - one who is no longer a 'youngster', youth, or novice; an elderly person + Wapping Old Stairs, London's East End (leading down to Thames; once notorious for after-dark crimes) + (notebook 1930): 'old stairs'.
sycamore (notebook 1930) → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. VII: (of redoubts fortifying the city) 'These... redoubts, in process of time, came to be pleasantly overrun by a carpet of grass and clover, and overshadowed by wide-spreading elms and sycamores, among the branches of which the birds would build their nests and rejoice the ear with their melodious notes'.
euphonium - 'a name given to the bass instrument of the Saxhorn family, usually tuned in B<flat> or C. It only differs from the barytone Saxhorn in the larger diameter of its bore, which thus produces a longer and somewhat deeper quality of tone'.
notation - any set of symbols or characters used to denote things or relations in order to facilitate the recording or considering of them + (notebook 1930): 'Singing from note in either notation' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 339: 'The following is a list of the subjects taught in one of the Board Schools... (8) Singing from note in either notation'.
Haus (ger) - house + gehaust (ger) - resided + cage-work timber houses built in 16th century Dublin.
Heim (ger) - home + Henrik Ibsen: Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House).
Goose Green Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin + Gretna Green - a village in the south of Scotland famous for runaway weddings.
Caban tSile (kaban tili) (gael) - Sheila's Hut (name of 17th c. tavern); Co. Dublin village; anglic. Cabinteely + (notebook 1930): 'Cabinteely'.
Howard Payne (1791-1852) - American author of Home Sweet Home + heart pains.
marquis + (Mark, Luke, Matthew, John).
Sankhya - one of the six orthodox systems of Hindu philosophy, based on a dualism of matter and soul + said + Moody and Sankey - American revivalists and hymn writers + "Joyce also connects "dodo" to the hymnal of Sankey and Moody used in many churches thoughout the British empire, notably in the West Indies where it is called "The Sankey" and which Joyce uses as a verb (French: 'without key') in "or so they sankeyed. Dodo!" perhaps to capture the singing style" (Karl Reisman).
O'Clery - one of the Four Masters
Gregorio (Italian) - Gregory
Johannes - an old Portugese gold coin + Johannes (l, ger) - John + Johannes Sebastian Bach.
aw - an exclamation usually expressing mild remonstrance, entreaty, commiseration, disgust, or disapproval + (onomat.)
gnome - one of a race of diminutive spirits fabled to inhabit the interior of the earth and to be the guardians of its treasures; a goblin, dwarf + John Howard Payne: Home Sweet Home (song): 'There's no place like home' + (notebook 1924): 'no place like Norway'.
Findlater, Adam - 19th-century Dubliner who made money in groceries and spent it in civic restoration. The Dublin Presbyterian chapel in Parnell Square was restored by him and is called Findlater's Church + kerk (Dutch) - church.
ye - graphic var. the
litel - obs. form of little
rond - obs. form of round + The Little Church around the Corner, New York City (a church just off Broadway, where theatrical performers were wont to marry).
K.K.K. - Ku Klux Klan + catechism - an elementary treatise for instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, in the form of question and answer + (notebook 1930): 'K.K.K. Katekism.' → Confusion of Tongues 275: [Ku Kluxism] We could note the little booklet called K.K.K. Katechism, dedicated to Hiram W. Evans [...] contains [the information] that all the Popes of history have, with a few exceptions, been guilty of every known crime.
(as a child)
Jugend (ger) - youth + (notebook 1923): 'one of the ambitions of my early youth (SP) I was confirmed in bed'.
hedgeschool - an outdoor school esp. in Ireland where schools were held outside in out-of -the-way places to evade the law of catholic education; hence, a poor, mean, low-class school.
Broad Church - a designation popularly applied to members of the Church of England who take its formularies and doctrines in a broad or liberal sense, and hold that the church should be comprehensive and tolerant, so as to admit of more or less variety of opinion in matters of dogma and ritual.
alive - active, operative
parochially - rel. to a parish clergyman
caliphate - office of spiritual leader of Islam
baji (Persian) - sister
curate - any ecclesiastic (including a bishop, etc.) who has the spiritual charge of a body of laymen; a clergyman who has the spiritual charge of a parish (or parochial district).
Engel (ger) = engel (Dutch) - angel
relay - to pass on or retransmit (telephonic or broadcast signals received from elsewhere); transf. To pass on (a message or information).
Sutton - Lord Mayor of Dublin. Also the neck of land that connects Howth to the mainland + Satan + Archangel Michael and Satan (Motif: Mick/Nick) (Jude 1:9: 'Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee').
phoney - that has no real existence; fake, sham, counterfeit + telephone.
clairaudience - the faculty of mentally perceiving sounds beyond the range of hearing, alleged to be induced under certain mesmeric conditions
reicher (ger) - richer + reacher-out + "That voice [Hitler's] from its "reicherout as superstation" shouts, yells, wheedles, gloats, and waxes mawkish here and - with the obvious play on fuehrer, "fuercilier" - there (FW 335.18-.19)" [John Gordon: Joyce's Hitler].
superstition - unreasoning awe or fear of something unknown, mysterious, or imaginary, esp. in connexion with religion; religious belief or practice founded upon fear or ignorance.
rupture - a breach of harmony or friendly relations between two persons or parties; the act of breaking or bursting + rapture - ecstatic delight or joy + (notebook 1922-23): 'ruptures (raptures)'.
roar - a wild outburst of mirth + ears
Holmenkollen - a hilly quarter in North Oslo, known for skiing and its ski jump + hjem (Danish) - home + homeland calling.
ornery - commonplace, of poor quality, coarse, unpleasant + Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st earl of (162 1-79) - Irish-born British soldier, politician, dramatist for whom the ornery (illustrates motions of the stars by means of revolving balls) is named.
for nine half + four shillings and nine halfpennies.
John Jameson whiskey + Shem/Shaun (motif).
seven + say when (to stop pouring, to sell stocks) [.35]
STOCKHOLM - Seaport city, capital of Sweden + (notebook 1930): 'holm' + (notebook 1930): 'holmstock' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'Riddarholmen (nobles' island), lying immediately west of Stadholmen' + stocks [.34]
eleven + (notebook 1930): 'staden' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXV, 'Stockholm', 935b: 'Staden is the commercial centre of the city' + unsteady (stock market).
Liverpool + Moor Park, where Swift met Stella.
hogg - in Scotland and many parts of Engl. a young sheep from the time it ceases to be a lamb till its first shearing + large hogs (or eggs).
noying - annoyance, harm, injury + one (pound), four (shillings), twopence, annoying.
Big-butter-lane in medieval Dublin + good, better, best.