p. 81
"If this was Hannibal's walk it was Hercules' work."
I don't know what this means exactly, but it's a reference to Hannibal Barca, and Hercules, maybe a tribute to the military shenanigans of Hannibal, and the Labors of Hercules.
"headandheelless chickenstegg bore some Michelangiolesque resemblance"
Some kind of weird egg thing resembling a work by Michelangelo? Which one?
p. 82 (nada)
p. 83
"Adam and Eve's in Quantity Street"
I wish I knew what this meant, because it sounds really cool.
p. 84
"uncertain weapon of lignum vitae"
A really hard, dense wood I guess.
p. 85
"When the prisoner, soaked in methylated, appeared in dry dock, appatently ambrosiaunrealised"
I'm getting that some dude showed up drunk, apparently unaware of ambrosia (the food and drink of the gods).
p. 86
"...christies and jew's totems...pikey"
There some kind of slang commentary going on here, I think.
p. 87
"he would be there to remember the filth of November,"
I guess Joyce was not a fan of the Gunpowder Plot.
"Use the tongue mor! Give lip less!"
Talk more, but be more respectful?
p. 88
"That he was only too cognitively conatively cogitabundantly sure of it because, living, loving, breathing and sleeping morphomelosophopancreates, as he most significantly did,"
He was too aware of life, his existence?
p. 89
"Sacred avatar, how the devil did they guess it!"
How did they guess that a god had descended from heaven? (Hinduism) Did the devil help?
"Quare hircum?"
This just sounds cool, something from Hiberno-English. "Very hircum?"
"danzzling on the age of a vulcano?"
I like this, dancing on the volcano's edge.
p. 90
"And Camellus then said to Gemellus: I should know you? Parfaitly. And Gemellus then said to Camellus: Yes, your brother?"
Romulus and Remus? The supposed founders of Rome, who enacting a kind of Cain and Abel thing.
p. 91
"before the dorming of the mawn, he skuld never ask to see sight or light of this world or the other world or any either world,"
I just like this line when you change it "morning of the dawn".
p. 92 (nada)
p. 93
"latten stomach even of a tumass equinous"
A reference to Thomas Aquinas?
"Drinkbattle's Dingy Dwellings"
I laughed.
"And so it all ended."
Every now and then, there a line that is very clear. I like it when this happens.
"Timm Finn"
There's a folk singer who's named this now. It might be a reference to a ballad or something.
p. 94
"A pair of sycopanties with amygdaleine eyes,"
This was funny, considering the actual definition of sycophant.
"Dirty Daddy Pantaloons...behind the war of the two roses,"
A reference to the War of the Roses?
p. 95
"Gobugga ye, sez I!"
This dialect cracked me up.
"pure mountain dew than enrich my acquaintance with that big brewer's belch."
Eww.
"analists"
WORDPLAY!
p. 96
"Well, even should not the framing up of such figments in the evidential order bring the true truth to light as fortuitously as a dim seer's setting of a starchart might (heaven helping it)"
Ooo, more self-reference. Sarcasm about the nonsense that people believe instead of the things in this book.
p. 97
"Reynard is slow!"
A slow fox! And it reminds me of that thing you see when you learn to read, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
p. 98
"Big went the bang then wildewide was quiet: a report: silence: last Fama put it under ether."
This part reminds me of the theory of the Big Bang. I think this was around when Joyce was writing.
"The war is in words and the wood is the world."
The war is in words, and the wood/war/words are in the world?
p. 99 (nothin'.)
p. 100
"Achdung!"
A cute little play on German, "Warning, poop!"
"as a tesseract"
Fancy math stuff.
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