FDV: It is a mere mienerism of this vague of visibilities, mark you, as accorded to by moisturology moisturologist of the brehons assorciation assorceration for the advancement of scayences, because my dear, mentioning of it under the breath, as in pure (what bunkum!) essenesse, there have been disselving forenenst you just the dreaper, the two drawpers assisters and the three droopers assessors confraternitisers. Who are, of course, Uncle Arth, your two cozes from Niece and (koject a bit now!) our [own familiars] Billyhealy, Ballyhooly and Bullyhowley surprised in an indecorous position by the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society, for bledprusshers. Knightsmore. Haventyne? / Ha ha! / This Mister Ireland? And a live? / Ay, ay. Aye, aye, baas.
mannerism - excessive or affected addiction to a distinctive manner or method of treatment, esp. in art and literature. spec. (freq. with capital initial) applied to a style of art which originated in Italy c 1520 and preceded the Baroque, characterized by stylistic exaggeration in figure and composition, etc.
vague - the vague or undefined expanse of something + vague (fr) - wave.
mark you - take notice, keep watch
meteorologist - one who is skilled in meteorology
brehon - an ancient Irish judge + British Association for the Advancement of Science + (hostility of 19th century scientific bodies to spiritualists/sorcerers).
bunkum - empty clap-trap oratory, 'tall talk', humbug
esse (l) - to be + Essenes - ancient Jewish religious sect (noted for their ascetic and reclusive practices) + essence + S and S (Shem and Shaun).
dissolve - to become faint, faint away; Cinemat. and Television. To cause (a picture) to become faint or fade away (into another).
forenenst - in front of, opposite, against
draper - Orig., One who made (woollen) cloth. Subsequently, A dealer in cloth, and now by extension, in other articles of textile manufacture + Drapier's Letters is the collective name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725 by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition of a privately minted copper coinage which Swift believed to be of inferior quality. William Wood was granted letters patent to mint the coin, and Swift saw the licensing of the patent as corrupt. In response, Swift represented Ireland as constitutionally and financially independent of Britain in the Drapier's Letters. Since the subject was politically sensitive, Swift wrote under the pseudonym M. B. Drapier to hide from retaliation. Many Irish people recognized Swift as a hero for his defiance of British control over the Irish nation. Beyond being a hero, many critics have seen Swift, through the persona of the Drapier, as the first to organize a "more universal Irish community", although it is disputed as to who constitutes that community.
pair of drawers
assister - he who or that which gives help, or assists in doing something
drooper - one that droops; one whose energy or spirit fails
assessor - one who sits beside; hence, one who shares another's position, rank, or dignity; one who assesses taxes + *E*, *IJ* and *VYC*.
arth (Welsh) - a bear + Arthur.
coz - An informal word for cousin, used esp. as a term of address + koza (Serbian) - nanny-goat.
conject - to conclude, infer, or judge, from appearances or probabilities + konj (Serbian) - horse + FDV: Who are, of course, Uncle Arth, your two cozes from Niece and (koject a bit now!)
familiar - a person with whom one has constant intercourse, an intimate friend or associate
ballyhoo - a barker's touting speech; hence, bombastic nonsense + BALLYHOOLY - Town, County Cork, on Blackwater River. Robert Martin of Ross, nicknamed "Ballyhooly," wrote Bits of Blarney, containing the song "The Ballyhooly Blue Ribbon Amy," about a temperance movement in a notoriously intemperate town. The town was known for its faction fights. "Balhyhooly" is proverbial for "a tonguelashing."
hooly (Irish) - celebration, uninhibited party
indecorous - unbecoming, inappropriate (obs.); immodest, indecent (rare.)
sphygmomanometry - determination of blood pressure + *S*
blood pressures (Prussians)
Ireland, William Henry (1777-1835) forged a Shakespearian play (Vortigern) and other Shakespearian documents.
alive + Anna Livia.
baas - In S. Africa: a master, employer of labour. Often as a form of address + baas (Dutch) - boss, master + bás (Irish) - death + B.A.A.S. - British Association for the Advancement of Science [.02]
FDV: The cry of Stena chills the vitals of slumbring off the motther has been pleased into the harms of the her old salaciters, meassurers soon and soon. But the voice of Alma answers gladdens the cocklyhearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing beckerbrose, the brew with the foochoor in it. Sawyest? Nodt? Nyets, I dhink I sawn to remumb or sumbsuch. A kind of a thing like thinglike all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic of or somes some kvind then props an acutebacked guardangle with aslant off ohanthen ohathnthenth ohahnthenth a wenchyoumaycuddler lying with her royalirish uppershoes among the theekleaves. Signs are on of a mere by token that wills still to be be coming upon this there once a here was world. As the dayeleyves unfolden them. In the wake of the blackshape Natten den Sorte; whenat hurled forth hindled firth and hundled furth the week of wakes is out and over; as a wick weak waking from ennemberable Ashias unto fierce force fuming, temtem tamtam, the Phoenican wakes.
stena (Serbian) - stone + Lia Fáil - a stone at Tara that supposedly shrieked at coronations of rightful high kings.
chill - fig. To affect as with cold; to check, depress, or lower (warmth, ardour, etc.)
vitals - those parts or organs of the body, esp. the human body, essential to life, or upon which life depends
salacity - the trait of behaving in an obscene manner + matter (mother) has been placed into the hands of our solicitors.
messieurs (fr) - gentlemen + measurers so and so.
alina (it) - little wing + Aline - wife of Solness in Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder + FDV: But the voice of Alma answers gladdens the cocklyhearted dreamerish
gladden - to make glad, to render joyous or bright
cockly - full of cockles, rucks, or wrinkles, puckered + warm the cockles of one's heart - to produce a warm feeling of health and contentment, to rejoice, delight, etc..
ching chong (Slang) - Chinese person (derogatory) + Ulysses: 'O, the chinless Chinaman! Chin Chon Eg Lin Ton'.
chop suey - a Chinese-style dish of meat stewed and fried with bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, and onions, and often served with rice + sugar.
kao lao (Chinese) - apply for leave to resign on account of old age + café au lait (fr) - coffee with milk + (noises of breakfast things).
BECKER BROTHERS - Tea merchants; at 7 Great George's Street, South, and 17 Earl Street, North, around the turn of the century + Backer (ger) - baker.
brose - a dish made by pouring boiling water (or milk) on oatmeal (or oat-cake) seasoned with salt and butter + Brosel (ger) - crumbs.
brew - the beverage, etc. brewed; sometimes used locally for 'yeast'.
Foochow - Chinese tea port + future.
sawest? + savest (Serbian) - conscience, scruple + svest (Serbian) - awareness, conscience + Jonathan Sawyer founded Dublin, Georgia, United States.
nyet (Russian) - no, not
I think I seem to remember some such
thinglike - like a physical object, lacking consciousness or will
threelegged - having three legs, as a three-legged stool + *E* siglum.
pelvic - of, pertaining to, contained in, or connected with the pelvis + *A* siglum + REFERENCE
kind + kvinde (Danish) - woman + FDV: A kind of a thing like thinglike all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic of or somes some kvind
prop - to give support to + perhaps.
acute - sharp at the end, coming to a sharp point, pointed; acute angle, one less than a right angle.
quadrangle - Geom. A figure having four angles and therefore four sides + *C* siglum.
aslant - across in a slanting direction, athwart + a sort of a.
18th + oh, and then the + Hahn (ger) - cock + *V* siglum + FDV: then props an acutebacked guardangle with aslant off ohanthen ohathnthenth ohahnthenth
what you may call her
lye = lie + *L* siglum
thickleaf - a name of plants of the genus Crassula + thee (Dutch) - tea + FDV: a wenchyoumaycuddler lying with her royalirish uppershoes among the theekleaves.
signs are on (Irish) - therefore, consequently, as a result
more by token - still more, the more so (dial.)
will - to wish, desire; sometimes with implication of intention (obs.) + {as we are passing from sleep to wakefulness, the dream begins to fade — only symbolic sigla remain}
White Ship sank because everyone on board was drunk (Henry I's only son was drowned)
for natten den sorte (Danish via Ibsen) - with the dark coming on (McH) + Henrik Ibsen: Borte! (Gone!): 'Det var en fest kun, / før natten den sorte; / hun var en gæst kun, – / og nu er hun borte.' (Norwegian): 'It was but a feast / With the dark coming on; / She was but a guest -- / And now, she is gone.'
Ath Cliath (aklie) (gael) - Hurdle Ford; (Dublin) + FDV: whenat hurled forth hindled firth and hundled furth the week of wakes is out and over;
unnumberable - incapable of being numbered, innumerable + embers.
ashes + Asias.
William Shakespeare: King Lear III.4.174: 'Fie, foh, and fum' (phrase is of imitative origin, rooted in the sounds of flustering and anger).
Tem - creator in 'The Book of the Dead'
Phoenix + Finnegan + "The Middle Egyptian word for the papyrus plants of the swamp in which Osiris was found was rendered by Greek scribes as byblos, which Plutarch in his account of Osiris' journey accepts as a place name: Byblos (Gods, II, 124). In Plutarch's telling of the tale, then, Osiris drifts out to sea and to Byblos in Phoenicia. This is the best-known version of the Osiris cycle, and Joyce seems to have associated Phoenicia with the Egyptian god. This adds a distinctly Osirian note to many of the FW references to Phoenicia as a land of rebirth, for example at 608.32, "the Phoenican wakes"." (Mark L. Troy)
Dear!, Oh dear!, Dear, dear! - exclamations expressing surprise, astonishment, anxiety, distress, regret, sympathy, or other emotion + a Dhia (a d'ie) (gael) - O God.