A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [234]
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The casting of lots for Christ’s garments is narrated in Matthew 27:35, Mark
15:24, Luke 23:34, and John 19:24; it is prefigured, as well, in Psalms 21:19.
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From the poem “William Bond,” by William Blake (1757-1827).
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Performing arts venue at the north end of Sackville (now O’Connell) Street.
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British prime minister; he died in May 1898.
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From a popular song by American songwriter Stephen Foster (1826-1864).
Bumpkins.
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In Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra (act 2, scene 7), Lepidus says, “Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile.”
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Chain of Dublin cafés.
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Tara is a mythological name for Ireland. Holyhead is the Welsh port city across the Irish Sea from Dublin—a common destination for those leaving Ireland.
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Study to become an attorney.
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From “He remembers forgotten beauty,” a poem by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
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lndeed, the word appears in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (act 3, scene 2).
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Throughout La Vita Nuova (c.1293), Dante seems to have kept his strong feelings for Beatrice in check.
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That is, Dædalus.
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Geometrical form created when a parallelogram is removed from the corner of a
larger parallelogram.
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Geometry textbook based on the work of Euclid (c.300 B.C.).
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The sin of selling spiritual blessings or pardons.
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Hot cereal.
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Technical terms from the distilling trade.
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Member of an esoteric, mystical order.
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Dry goods: material, clothing, notions (small useful articles).
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Requiescat in Pace, Latin for “rest in peace.”
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Brand of snuff, a pulverized form of tobacco for inhaling.
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Without effect.
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Institution for the training of Irish priests.
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Priestly garments.
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The sacrament of Holy Communion.
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Modern-day Iran.
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Cup in which the communion wine is held.
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Prepared his body for burial according to traditional procedures.
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Obituary notice that will appear in the Dublin Freeman’s Journal (not “General”).
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Beef bouillon.
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Strange.
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Prayer book.
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Working-class seaside Dublin neighborhood south of the River Liffey.
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That is, pneumatic; a malapropism.
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Inexpensive boys’ magazines.
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Fabric cover to keep a teapot warm.
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Here, not a post-secondary institution but a private boys’ preparatory school.
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Public school; National Schools were less prestigious than the private school the boys in this story attend.
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Playing hooky.
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Formerly a fort, now a municipal power plant, on Dublin Bay.
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Whitened with fine white clay.
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Tune, melody.
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Fun.
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Lose his courage.
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That is, how many times would his hands be beaten with the pandybat, a small club, similar to a blackjack, in which a hard core of whalebone is covered in leather.
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Fun.
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The river running west to east through downtown Dublin, dividing it into south and north.
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Commercial stretch of road alongside the river.
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Another of Dublin’s four rivers.
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Soft felt hat.
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Sweethearts, girlfriends.
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Joyce plays on both the conventional and underground meanings this word carried in turn-of-the-century Ireland: “strange” but also, increasingly, “homosexual.”
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Simpleton.
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Mounted or scaled.
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That is, a dead-end street.
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Inexpensive day schools, run by the volunteers of the Christian Brothers, that emphasized practical learning.
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Three popular nineteenth-century texts emphasizing, respectively, romance (The Abbott is a novel by Sir Walter Scott), religious devotion, and crime and detection.
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Reckless running.
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The evening meal.
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A popular ballad, often beginning with the phrase “Come all you [Irish men],” etc.
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Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915), Irish nationalist leader.
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Cup in which the communion wine is held.
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Bazaar held to support the Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, held May 14-19, 1894.
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Period of withdrawal for the purpose of spiritual reflection and teaching.
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That is, a convent school.
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Relating to the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons,