Of Kevin, of God the servant, the miracles, death and life are these......
Born on the island of Ireland in the Irish ocean, come his feast of holy angels, Kevin, having been granted the privilege of a priest's portable altare cum bath, came to midmost Glendalough by archangelical guidance where amiddle of the river Slaney and the Liffey river on this lone lake piously Kevin amidships of his conducible altar super bath centripetally rafted servant diaconal of orders Hibernian, to its lake isle, whereof its lake is principality, whereon, powerful in knowledge, Kevin came to where its centre is among the circumfluent watercourses of Ishgagrana and Ishgacarrara a lakelet islanding an islet whereupon with beached raft subdiaconal bath propter altar, with oil anointed, accompanied by prayer, holy Kevin bided but to build a honey beehivehut wherein to live in fortitude, acolyte of virtues, whereof the floor most holy Kevin excavates as deep as a depth of a seventh of a full fathom which excavated venerable Kevin, taking counsel, proceeds to the lakeside of the isletshore whereat seven several times he fills with Gregorian water and with eucharistic joy of heart recedes carrying the lustral domination contained within his most portable privileged altar unacumque bath which severally seven times, a lector of water levels, most venerable Kevin effuses into the cavity excavated thereby letting there be water where before there was dry land having created which, confirmed a strong and perfect Christian, blessed Kevin exorcises holy water so that understanding it may fill to midheight his tubbath altar which handbathtub most blessed Kevin enthrones in the intercentre of the translated water whereamid saint Kevin, having girded his frock to his cherubical loins, solemnly seats himself in his seat of wisdom, that hiptubbath, whereverafter, doctor solitarius, keeper of the door of meditation, he meditates with seraphic ardour the initial sacrament of baptism or the regeneration of man by water. [cite]
most of the additions at this level are clever/showoff-y Catholic patterns, mechanical rather than expressive
Of Kevin, of God the servant, the miracles, death and life are these......
Browning's 'The Ring and the Book' includes the palindromic lines: 'The Life, Death, Miracles of Saint Somebody, / Saint Somebody Else, his Miracles, Death and Life' [ebook]
Born on the island of Ireland in the Irish ocean, come his feast of holy angels, Kevin, having been granted the privilege of a priest's portable altare cum bath,
"feast of holy angels" October 2
"granted the privilege" by a king?
"priest's" (does this imply he's not yet a priest?)
St Patrick used a portable altar
"portable altare cum bath" using the altar as a bathtub would presumably require extra-special permission
VI.B10.13: "Fr Bern. Vaughan granted privilege of portable altar" Irish Times 1 Nov 1922, 5/3: 'As a mark of special favour in 1916 Father Vaughan received a letter from Pope Benedict XV, congratulating him upon his jubilee in the priesthood and granting him the privilege of a portable altar' ie, not restricted to one location
Joyce embeds nine levels of angelic hierarchy in descending order: Angels Archangels Principalities Powers Virtues Dominions Thrones Cherubim Seraphim
Joyce embeds seven levels of ecclesiastical hierarchy, also in descending order: priest deacon [diaconal] subdeacon acolyte exorcist lector doorkeeper (but he'll swap exorcist and lector)
the descending orders suggest that his self-isolation is impoverishing him spiritually
FW2: "Of Kevin, of Increate God the servant... the miracles, death and life are these... Procreated on the ultimate ysland of Yreland in the encyclical Yrish archipelago, come their feast of precreated holy whiteclad angels... Kevin, having been graunted the praviloge of a priest's postcreated portable altare cum balneo..."
headwaters of Slaney and Liffey
came to midmost Glendalough by archangelical guidance where amiddle of the river Slaney and the Liffey river on this lone lake piously Kevin amidships of his conducible altar super bath centripetally rafted servant diaconal of orders Hibernian,
past tense
"midmost... amiddle... amidships... centripetally" (vs ROC's centrifugal repulsion?)
"by archangelical guidance"
"lone lake" (not true-- other lakes are equally amiddle)
"amidships" meaningless, given its tiny size
"conducible altar super bath" conducible = useful? super
Ancient Order of Hibernians (Irish Catholic fraternal organisation) [wiki]
Joyce embeds the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost in reverse order: fear-of-the-Lord piety knowledge fortitude counsel understanding wisdom
Joyce embeds the seven sacraments in semi-reverse order: matrimony holy-orders extreme-unction penance eucharist confirmation baptism
FW2: "came... to our own midmost Glendalough-le-Vert by archangelical guidance where amiddle of meeting waters of river Yssia and Essia river on this one of eithers lone navigable lake piously Kevin... amidships of his conducible altar super bath rafted centripetally, diaconal servent of orders Hibernian"
to its lake isle, whereof its lake is principality, whereon, powerful in knowledge, Kevin came to where its centre is among the circumfluent watercourses of Ishgagrana and Ishgacarrara a lakelet islanding an islet whereupon with beached raft subdiaconal bath propter altar, with oil anointed, accompanied by prayer, holy Kevin bided but to build a honey beehivehut wherein to live in fortitude, acolyte of virtues,
Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem about retreat)
past tense
"Ishgagrana and Ishgacarrara" ishga ?= uisce = water
grana/carrara??? (changed to wild/clear)
Carrara = province of Italy?
"beached" changed from on-water to on-land
Latin propter: beside
FW2: "to its supreem epicentric lake ysle, Inis Kevin, whereof its lake is the centrifugal principality, whereon by prime, powerful in knowledge, Kevin came to where its centre is among the circumfluent watercourses of Yshgafiena and Yshgafiuna, an enysled lakelet yslanding a lacustrine yslet, whereupon with beached raft subdiaconal bath propter altar, with oil extremely anointed, accompanied by prayer, holy Kevin bided... but to build a rubric penitential honeybeehivehut in whose enclosure to live in fortitude, acolyte of cardinal virtues"
whereof the floor most holy Kevin excavates as deep as a depth of a seventh of a full fathom which excavated venerable Kevin, taking counsel, proceeds to the lakeside of the isletshore whereat seven several times he fills with Gregorian water and with eucharistic joy of heart recedes carrying the lustral domination contained within his most portable privileged altar unacumque bath
present tense (revised to past)
"proceeds... recedes"
"Gregorian water" a holy water recipe attributed to Pope Gregory
Latin una cumque: one, however
FW2: "whereof the arenary floor most holy Kevin excavated as deep as to a depth of a seventh part of one full fathom, which excavated, venerable Kevin, anchorite, taking counsel, proceeded towards the lakeside of the ysletshore whereat seven several times he... collected Gregorian water sevenfold and with Ambrosian eucharistic joy of heart as many times receded carrying the lustral domination contained within his most portable previliged altar unacumque bath"
which severally seven times, a lector of water levels, most venerable Kevin effuses into the cavity excavated thereby letting there be water where before there was dry land having created which, confirmed a strong and perfect Christian, blessed Kevin exorcises holy water so that understanding it may fill to midheight his tubbath altar
present tense (revised to past)
Genesis 1:9: 'Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear'
FW2: "which severally seven times into the cavity excavated, a lector of water levels, most venerable Kevin then effused, thereby letting there be water where was theretofore dry land, by him so concreated, who now, confirmed a strong and perfect Christian, blessed Kevin, exorcised his holy sister water... so that, well understanding, she should fill to midheight his tubbathaltar"
which handbathtub most blessed Kevin enthrones in the intercentre of the translated water whereamid saint Kevin, having girded his frock to his cherubical loins, solemnly seats himself in his seat of wisdom, that hiptubbath, whereverafter, doctor solitarius, keeper of the door of meditation, he meditates with seraphic ardour the initial sacrament of baptism or the regeneration of man by water.
present tense (revised to past)
Latin translatus: carried across
Litany of Blessed Virgin Mary: 'Seat of wisdom' (Angelical salutation)
FW2: "which hand-bathtub most blessed Kevin ninthly enthroned in the interconcentric centre of the translated water whereamid... Saint Kevin Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wisdom, that hipbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation... he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacrament of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water."
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