sesthers

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

sesthers

Discovered in p3:

not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Sesthers --- this word at first is the Joynglish form for sisters; & implies Jonathan Swift’s 2 Esthers, but it is obvious that Joyce put much more in it; for example, Esther, the Jewish lady of the Apocrypha born out of unknown parents as Stella, & as fair & wise as Sheherazade, can be probably counted in it. I don’t know whether Joyce meant or not, all women are sisters as God’s daughters.”

sosie

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

sosie

Discovered in p3:

not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Sosie is from French sosie "double," which links with the 2 Esthers who loved Jonathan Swift; plus, it might sound like saucy.”

vanessy

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

vanessy

Discovered in p3:

not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Vanessy is a portmanteau word made with, at least,  2 words: Vanessa & vanity. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish-born English satire & author of the immortal masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels, tauftaufed 3 women outside the church in his life: Jane Waring & the two Esthers. He nicknamed JW “Varina,” the 1st Esther “Stella,” & the 2nd “Vanessa.” The 1st Esther was Esther Johnson (1681-1728) born out of wedlock, & brought up by Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet & English diplomat, who was rumored to have been her father. Swift worked as a secretary for the diplomat & tutor for her in his early 20s. The 2nd Esther was Esther Van Homrigh (1688-1723), the  1st daughter of Bartholomew Van Homrigh, the leading Dublin merchant of Dutch stock, & his wife Esther (née Stone). When Swift first met Esther Johnson, she was only 8 years old. In 1690, he came back to Ireland where he was born; however, I don’t know why he left the diplomat & the young girl. He was ordained a clergyman, & received a small parish at Kilroot near Belfast,  where he met Varina, his college friend’s sister. But they never played the perfect harmony, & several years later, Swift decided to leave her & returned to England, counting on Sir William Temple. When he met Esther Johnson again, probably in the Temples’s house, she was a beautiful, sophisticated 20-years-old girl. The clergyman taufed her  “Stella,” & he kept in correspondence with her until death parted the two. In the next act of his life story, the heroine Vanessa entered. In December, 1707, at the inn in Dunstable near London, where the circle members of the Van Homrighs gathered, Swift saw her spilling coffee in the fireplace. Her family had just moved from Dublin to London that year. He taufed her “Vanessa” by blending with Van, part of her surname, & Latin esse “be” or Esther. Her love for him may have been stronger than his love for her. The Van Homrighs, in their London house, set up a room for Swift, which he describes in an 18th-of-December-1711 letter to Stella: “sluttery, which I have so often found to be the most agreeable Chamber in the World.” Vanessa & Jonathan Swift sometimes enjoyed coffee times for about 2 years & he may have done some work in the chamber. After that, he returned to Dublin, I couldn’t find any obvious reason. But Vanessa couldn’t forget him.  After her mother had passed she followed him & swiftly moved to Dublin.  When he was appointed to be dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 1714, some Swiftian lecturers today say that, though , he may have resolved to marry at that time, he secretly chose & married Stella but not Vanessa. It is also said to cause her death. She died literally of a broken heart, they say. By the way, Jonathan Swift traveled a few times across the channel in his life as Sir Tristram did so. A Jonathan Swift is a Sir Tristram in a sense in Joyce’s mind.”

venissoon

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

venissoon

Discovered in p3:

not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Venissoon is very soon implying venison, the word derived from Latin vēnātiō “hunting,” which is the symbol of Esau in Joynglish. Esau is a hunter & Jacob is a farmer. Read Genesis 27:3. Their old father said to Esau: “Go out to the field and take some venison.””

buttended

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

buttended

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not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“But tended, only looked after? Butt-ended, ended with or at the butt? Butted, struck with the head? Which? All? More? Joynglish is a magical laguage which can tell two or more stories in a single sentence, clause, phrase, or word; for instance, here, Jacob is to Isaac in Genesis as Charles Stewart Parnell is to Isaac Butt in the late 19th century Irish political world. Charles S. Parnell, christened “Butthead” in his childhood by his sisters,  butted Isaac Butt away from his position.”

kidscad

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

kidscad

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not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Jacob himself, or a Jacob, might be a child scoundrel, or kidscad. To trick his dim-eyed father, he put kid skin & pretended to be his hairy brother Esau, & then, got his father’s blessing meant for Esau.”

bellowsed

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

bellowsed

Discovered in p3:

nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“A pair of bellows is originally an instrument of a smith to blow air into the fire. The basic verb sense is “to blow with bellows for making fire,” & since a sound the device produces, I’ve not heard yet, might be like a man’s or animal’s roar; thus, the word has got the more common  senses “to roar in pain or anger; to sing a song loudly & tunelessly.” Bellows was also used as a metaphor for something that blows up the fire of passion or discord; or one’s lungs;  or broken-winded horse. Belly & bellows have the same origin: Old English bælᴁ, bęlᴁ ‘bag, skin, envelope, hull of beans and peas.”

thuartpeatrick

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

thuartpeatrick

Discovered in p3:

nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick…

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Thuartpeatrick is made with thou art Peter, thou art Patrick, pea, & trcik. Jesus says in Matthew 12:18-19, “thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” Peter comes from Greek Πέτρος “stone, rock.” Patrick is the Irish saint - an Old-Irish-speaking Moses in Joyce’s mind, maybe. The pea trick is from the episode of the 25th chapter of Genesis: Esau sold the right of his firstborn son to his younger twin brother Jacob for the red pottage of lentiles. An Esau, as in a general text, is one who prefers temporary profit  to permanent advantage. Jacob is also called James in English, but James Joyce was the firstborn son.”

us

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

us

Discovered in p3

riverrun… brings us… back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Us is the objective for we, naturally, in the 1st sense; & US is also the sign of the United States, which has the city of Dublin founded by an Irish American, & a seemingly crazy JJ forced to bring it back to Howth Castle & Environs --- in his donburi counting, where was an entire Dublin in Ireland --- & blended them. In other words, a perfect genius Joyce who could easily find common points between two DUBLINS, or everywhere, by mixing  two cities,  might have wanted to put forth universality in the societies, cultures, or nature of man.”

頒布ティーダンプティータイム・ソング

頒布ティーダンプティータイム・ソング

(円ミリベルたどたどしくフィネガンたちの通夜再記の読ショーをするにあたって)

頒布ティーダンプティータイム、はまっていた
頒布ティーダンプティータイム、流れポジ
　千と一人の学者がいても
　ジョイス党人いたとしても
本プチー談ピー、頓馬らないのさヴィヴィッツは


卵詩の黄身

Contents:
Do you feel Nous-rêverons hiding in the Liffey or any river?
Do you feel that a church, tavern, & paradise are all the same place?
Do you feel that American Dubliners & Irish Dubliners are the same kind of people?

目次
リフィー川かどこかの川にヌレヴロンはおるのかどうか?
教会と居酒屋と楽園はみな同じとこじゃろうか?
アメリカのダブリン市民とアイルランドのダブリン市民は同じ人種じゃろうか?

tauftauf

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

tauftauf

Discovered in p3:

nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Tauftauf? Tough, tough? --- what’s tough? James Voyce’s story is tough to hear that is always telling me in mysterious ways. German tauf is baptismal, &, as the verb stem,  baptize; hence, tauftauf probably expresses christening, christening. Reduplications represent recirculation in history, & maybe, to baptize is to make tough in the thought of Christians. I think that if I told Joyce my imagination, that the sound of German tauf is similar to that of Chinese dào (Tao), he would probably feel very happy to hear about it. Tao is ubiquitous forever.”

mishe mishe

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

mishe mishe

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nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Finnegans Wake is indeed full of mishmashes of multilingual words. German common noun Mische, equivalent to English mix, is packed into this portmanteau at first. The mix of God’s voice & Moses’s response is the main content of this package that Joyce borrowed from Exodus 3:4, which reads, “God called unto him out of the midst of the bush --- this bush was burning ---, and said, Moses, Moses (Hebrew: Moshe Moshe,) and he said, Here am I (Old Irish: Mishe Mishe.)” Exodus 2:10 says about the origin of the name Moses: “And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.” Furthermore, whether Joyce meant or not, mish is the condensed form for mission in slang & I have found mish in an Albanian dictionary by chance that means “flesh.” As you know, Genesis 2:23 says that Eve is bone of Adam’s bones & flesh of his flesh. Do you hear “me she me she” from this reduplication?”

avoice

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

avoice

Discovered in p3:

nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Afire means “on fire; burning.” Avoice is parallel with it, mayhap: “speaking.” This word can also be translated into common English: “one voice.” or “one kind of voice.” I can’t imagine anymore.”

doulin

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

doublin

Discovered in p3:

nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Doubling & Dublin are blended in this term, probably meaning “doubling in Dublin.” It is insensitive to qustion where this Dublin is. Enjoyce Finnekabans Wake!”

ジョイス作『フィネガンズ・ウェイクについて

ハンプティ・ダンプティいわく

「ダブルとダブリンがこの語句にはブレンドされちょる。ダブリンにダブルに増やすっちゅうことじゃ。このダブリンがどこかと尋ねるのは野暮じゃぞ。フィネかばんズ・ウェイクをエンジョイスするのじゃ」

mumper

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

mumper

Discovered in p3:

nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“This portmanteau word is made with number & mumper, which is a beggar or tramp in the general sense & a halfbred gypsy in slang. In Joynglish, thus, mumper might mean the “number of halfbred, begging gypsies or wanderers … ””

themselse

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

themselse

Discovered in p3:

nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Themselse is also just a portmanteau word Joyce made with themselves & else, meaning “themselves & another people,” I am sure.”

gorgios

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

gorgios

Discovered in p3:

nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“In Romany, gorgio is a non-Gypsy guy, who lives in a house & not in a tent. In Italian, gorgo is a whirlpool; in English, gorge, a  ravine or throat. The term also implies the state name Georgia. In Joynglish, thus, gorgios might be non-Gypsy gorgeous people living in a whirlpool in a gorge in Georgia.”

ジョイス作『フィネガンズ・ウェイクについて

ハンプティ・ダンプティいわく

「ロマニー語でゴルジョっちゅうんは、ジプシーじゃないやつっちゅうこと。テントじゃなく家に暮らすもんやな。イタリア語でゴルゴっちゅうんは渦のことで、英語で gorge っちゅうんは「峡谷」とか「喉」っちゅうこと。ジョージアっちゅう州名のこともほのめかしちょるな。よってジョイングリッシュでは、ジョージア州の峡谷に渦巻きながら暮らす贅沢なジプシーじゃない人々っちゅうことかな」

stream Oconee

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

stream Oconee

Discovered in p3:

nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“It seems that the model of the stream Oconee is the Oconee River, that runs in Dublin Lawrens County Georgia, USA, that, according to enjoyclopedia, Peter Oconee, from Dublin, Ireland, founded.”

topsawyer's rocks

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

topsawyer’s rocks

Discovered in p3:

nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Topsawyer might have several different faces:  an upper-hadle holder of a pit-saw, which is a large saw used in a vertical position by two men for cutting timber, or top-class guy, or swayer, an anagram for sawyer, that refers to a wielder or ruler.  A Mark Twain’s hero Tom Sawyer might hide in a clever way in this term. The word sawyer sometimes refers to a trunk or log floating in a river. Rocks are dangerous for sailors that could wreck the ship. What do you imagine with a trunk & rocks? In slang, rocks are one’s testicles. While chickens come out of eggs,  human beings come out of rocks --- in other words: man’s ultimate home.”

penisolate

on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

penisolate

Discovered in p3:

Sir Tristram… had passen-core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war...

Humpty Dumpty says:

“Penisolate is a portmanteau word made with peninsula & isolate, of course. Can you imagine the shape of this peninsula? Where is this peninsula? There are numberless peninsulas where the war occurred in our history.”