So there they were listening in as hard as they could to all four of them they were the big four the four waves of Erin all listening four there was old Tom Gregory and then besides old Tom there was old Phelim O'Hogan the four waves and oftentimes they used to be saying here now we are the four of us old Tom and old Phelim and old Jeremy the four of us and sure thank God there are no more of us and old Jeff O'Gorman the four of us and no more of us and so now pass the fish for the Lord's sake amen the way they used to be saying grace before fish for auld lang syne there they were spraining their ears listening and listening to all the kissening with their eyes glistening all the four when he was cuddling his colleen not the collen no the colleen bawn cuddling her and kissing her with his pogue like arrah na pogue they all four used to be cuddling and kissing and listening in the good days Dion Boucicault of Arrah na Pogue when they were all four collegians in the queen's colleges it brought it all back again as fresh as ever Matt and Marcus and now there he was and his Arrah na Pogue before the four of them and now thank God there were no more of them and he poguing and poguing they were listening with their mouths watering so pass the pogue for Christ sake Amen listening & watering all the four Luke and Johnny MacDougall for anything at all for a cup of of kindness yet for four big tumblers of woman squash with them all four listening and spraining their ears and their mouths making water
Ah well sure that's the way and there was poor Matt Gregory leaning on his staff of memory and Gregory and the others and now really & truly they were four dear old heladies and they looked as nice and respectable with their grey half tall hat and tailormade frock coat and then they had their fathom glasses to find out the fathoms and their tall hats just now like Lord Powerscourt or the auctioneer there near the place near that street Trinity College {the statue of Mrs Daniel O'Connell} that arranges all the auctions of valuable houses Smith like the auctioneer Smith or not Smith that sells all the fine houses & mansions James H North {J.P.} Mike North the auctioneer going to the horse show with all the people over from England and American visitors in his grey half tall hat and his fathom glasses to find out all the horses. And poor Marcus Lyons and poor Johnny and the four of us there they were now listening the four saltwater widowers and all they could remember long long ago when my heart knew no care the landing of Sir Arthur Casement in 1132 and the coronation of Brian by the bishop and then there was the drowning of Pharaoh and they were drowned in the sea the red sea and then poor Martin Cunningham out of the castle when he was drowned off Dunleary in the red sea and and then there was the Flemish Armada all scattered and all drowned off the coast of Cunningham and Saint Patrick and all they remembered and then there was the French fleet in 1132 landing under general Boche and there he was cuddling and poguing her in Arranapogue behind the queen's colleges. And then they used to give the lectures in Roman history in all the four collegians in the four trinity colleges Killorcure and Killthemall and Killeachother and Kilkelly-on-the-Flure those were the four great history colleges for auld lang syne all the Roman history past and present and present and absent and past and present and future arma virumque romano. Ah dearo a dear how it all came back to them to hear him there kissing her & cuddling her in his Roman arms ah dearo dear it was so sorry for the four of us Poor Tom Tarpey and the four shehusbands the four waves in their hat and thank God they were all summarily divorced by their shehusbands in the bygone days but still they parted on the best of terms by decree absolute well they could remember Mrs Justice Squelchman in 1132 at the Married Male Offender's Court in Arrahnapogue. Poor Johnny MacDougall & the four masters because she was backscratching all divorced by them four master and poor Marcus Powerscourt by decree absolute all because he broke wind in the pew and because he forgot to make a request in writing on stamped paper before saying his grace before fish and then there was poor Dion Boucicault all divorced too poor Dion because he attempted to well he ah well now sure we won't be too hard on him attempted some hunnish familiarities after eating a bad crab in the red sea ah dearo dearo dear and where do you leave Matt poor Matt in his grey frock hat all divorced by woman squelch and all on account the appearance of his face poor Matt Gregory. So now pass the face for Christ' sake. Amen. Poor Matt Gregory
And still and all they were always thinking of their four masters that were four beautiful sisters and there they were always counting the lovely periwinkle buttons in the front part of their dresses and there she was the beautiful four sisters and that was her name and they were looking for her everywhere in all the fathoms and then they had their tentacles and they used to be all hanging around all the waists of the ships the steamships and peering in through the steaming windows into the honeymoon cabins on board the big steamers and saloon ladies toilet apartments and rubbing off the cataract off the windows to see all the honeymooners and all the toilet ladies and their familiarities saying their grace before meals and watering and there they used to be counting all their peributtons to remember her beautiful name poor Gregory and Johnny the four sisters and there she was now asthore as in days of yore of planxty Gregory they used to be always singing and so now they started their singing and old Luke for auld luke syne and we make a cupboard coinerset for the pays savole shanghai..
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song: Matt Ulster 'thou'/ Mark Munster 'she'/ Luke Leinster 'you'/ John Connacht 'I' (ditto FW140)
text: Johnny Marcus Luke Matt
Ulysses? Ulster-Charybdis-AE; Leinster-Scylla-JE; Munster-both-TL?; Connacht-neither-RB??
(their rhythms are reminiscent of Molly's episode)
So there they were listening in as hard as they could [?to] all four of them they were the big four the four waves of Erin all listening four there was old [?wran]{Tom} Gregory and then besides old Tom there was old Phelim O' Hogan the four waves and oftentimes they used to be saying here now we are the four of us old Tom and ?old Phelim and old Jeremy the four of us and sure thank God there are no more of us and old Jeff O'Gorman the four of us and no more of us and so now pass the fish for the Lord's sake amen
(references to their listening to the birds' song have been scrubbed)
"listening in" (radios were once called 'listening-in sets')
"listening" is passive/feminine/voyeuristic/aural (vs talking/watching)
Tom Gregory (Leinster?)
Phelim O'Hogan (Phelim = Connaught, or Munster?) (FAILim, feidhil = 'beauty' or 'ever good')
Jeremy (by elimination maybe Ulster???)
Jeff O'Gorman (Jeffery/Jeffrey = Munster)
"they used to be saying here now we are" the shift to first-person present-tense is a quote they're saying here (are they already starting to say grace here?)
"glory be to God that there are no more of us" ♬ [wiki] ♬ [fweet-14]
motif: "So pass the fish for Christ sake, Amen" [fweet-9]
the way they used to be saying grace before fish for auld lang syne there they were spraining their ears listening and listening to all the kissening with their eyes glistening all the four when he was cuddling his colleen not the ?collen no the colleen bawn cuddling her and kissing her with his pogue like ?arrah na pogue they all four used to be cuddling and kissing and listening
"the way" cf T&I "it was something about him like the way he was always sticking his finger into his trousers pocket"
"saying grace" new motif (sample prayers all thanking God, vs "thank God there are no more of us")
Auld Lang Syne [wiki] ♬
VI.A Exiles2 (Jun-Jul?): "sprained her ear"
"collen" may be "cullen"
Cardinal Cullen: a fiercely anti-nationalistic 19th century archbishop of Dublin (mentioned in James Joyce: A Portrait I)
FW385.01 "cuddling and kiddling her, after an oyster supper in Cullen's barn"
"all four used to be cuddling and kissing" they were once as Tristan is now
Dion Boucicault's 1860 character The Colleen Bawn (fairhaired girl) and his 1864 character Arrah na Pogue (Arrah of the kiss) now stand in for Isolde [ebook]
in the good days Dion Boucicault of Arrah na Pogue when they were all four collegians in the queen's colleges it brought it all back again as fresh as ever Matt and Marcus and now there he was and his Arrah na Pogue before the four of them and now thank God there were no more of them and he poguing and poguing they were listening with their [wat] mouths watering so pass the pogue for Christ sake Amen listening & watering all the four Luke and Johnny MacDougall for anything at all for a cup of of kindness yet for four big tumblers of woman squash with them all four listening and spraining their ears and their mouths making water
"Dion Boucicault" (spelled right!?) DEEon BOOsickult
Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" was an adaptation of Gerald Griffin's 1829 novel "The Collegians"
the three Queen's Colleges in Belfast, Cork, and Galway (1845-1880) had been controversial because non-religious (??)
"fresh" (a nice contrast)
and it's only now, several layers in, that Joyce shows any first hint of associating the four with the gospellers, in standard Matthew Mark Luke John order
"poguing and poguing" T gives I multiple kisses
"for anything at all" (hint of desperation)
MacDougall = Ulster
"tumblers" = A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish his measure. [cite]
"tumblers of woman" = men who fuck women
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| reconstituted fruit drink |
Ah well sure that's the way and there was poor Matt Gregory leaning on his staff of memory and Gregory and the others and now really & truly they were four dear old heladies and they looked ?as nice and respectable with their grey half tall hat and tailormade frock coat and then they had their fathom glasses to find out the fathoms and their tall hats just now like ?Lord Powerscourt or the auctioneer there near the place near that street Trinity College that arranges all the auctions of valuable houses Smith like the auctioneer Smith or not Smith that sells all the fine houses & mansions James H North Mike North the auctioneer going to the horse show with all the people over from England and American visitors in his grey half tall hat and his fathom glasses to find out all the horses.
[in the published text, this paragraph seems assigned to Johnny]
only Matt retains a staff
"fathom glasses to find out the fathoms... to find out all the horses... looking for her everywhere in all the fathoms"
"Smith or not Smith"
James H. North J.P., auctioneer and estate agent, 110 Grafton Street, Dublin
"Mike" will become a flag for the Mick-Nick motif
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| 76yo in 1911? |
FW2: "they were four dear old heladies and really they looked awfully pretty and so nice and bespectable with their grey half a tall hat and tailormade frock coat and after that they had their fathomglasses to find out all the fathoms and their half a tall hat, just now like the old Merquus of Pawerschoof... only for the extrusion of the saltwater or the auctioneer there... going to the tailturn horseshow"
And poor Marcus Lyons and poor Johnny and the four of us there they were now listening the four saltwater widowers and all they could remember long long ago when my heart knew no care the landing of ?Sir Arthur Casement in 1132 and the coronation of Brian by the bishop and then there was the drowning of Pharaoh and they were drowned in the sea the red sea and then poor Martin Cunningham out of the castle when he was drowned off Dunleary in the red sea and and then there was the Flemish Armada all scattered and all drowned off the coast of Cunningham and Saint Patrick and all they remembered and then there was the French fleet in 1132 landing under general Boche and there he was cuddling and poguing her in Arranapogue behind the queen's colleges.
[in the published text this paragraph is divided between Johnny and Marcus]
Lyons = Munster (or Connaught) (cf Bantam Lyons??)
the cliche 'when our hearts knew no care' was used eg in an older version of 'Long Long Ago' [sheetmusic] ♬
Mat Kane becomes Martin Cunningham again, probably to differentiate him from Matt Gregory
"off the coast of Cunningham" Dunleary gets renamed in his memory?
FW2: "the official landing of Lady Jales Casemate, in the year of the flood 1132 S.O.S., and the christening of Queen Baltersby... and then poor Merkin Cornyngwham... when he was completely drowned... the Flemish armada, all scattered... at about eleven thirtytwo... off the coast of Cominghome and Saint Patrick... and then there was the Frankish floot... under Motham-general Bonaboche..."
FW2: "and then there was the drowning of Pharoah... into the sea, the red sea"
And then they used to give the lectures in Roman history in all the four collegians in the four trinity colleges Killorcure and Killthemall and Killeachother and Kilkelly-on-the-Flure those were the four great history colleges for auld lang syne all the Roman history past and present and present and absent and past and present and future arma virumque romano.
[in the published text this paragraph is given to Marcus]
opening line of Virgil's Aeneid: 'Arma virumque cano' = I sing of arms and of a man
"romano" = by a Roman?
FW2: "the Flemish armada, all scattered... at about eleven thirtytwo... off the coast of Cominghome and Saint Patrick... and then there was the Frankish floot... under Motham-general Bonaboche... in his half a grey traditional hat... And then again they used to give the... lectures... in the four... grandest colleges... of Erryn, of Killorcure and Killthemall and Killeachother and Killkelly-on-the-Flure... the past and present... and present and absent and past and present and perfect... Ah, dearo dear! ...How it did but all come eddaying back to them... before the four of us, in his Roman Catholic arms"
Ah dearo a dear how it all came back to them to hear him there kissing her & cuddling her in his Roman arms ah dearo dear it was so sorry for the four of us Poor Tom Tarpey and the four shehusbands the four waves in their hat and thank God they were all summarily divorced by their shehusbands in the bygone days but still they parted on the best of terms by decree absolute well they could remember Mrs Justice Squelchman in 1132 at the Married Male Offender's Court in Arrahnapogue.
[in the published text this paragraph is divided between Marcus and Lucas]
Tarpey = Connaught
Poor Johnny MacDougall & the four masters because she was [?waitin] backscratching all divorced by ?them four master and poor Marcus Powerscourt by decree absolute because he broke wind in the pew and because he forgot to make a request in writing on stamped paper before saying his grace before fish and then there was poor Dion Boucicault all divorced too poor Dion because he attempted to well he ah well now sure we won't be too hard on him attempted some hunnish familiarities after eating a bad crab in the red sea ah dearo dearo dear and where do you leave Matt poor Matt in his grey frock hat all divorced by woman squelch and all on account the appearance of his face poor Matt Gregory. So now pass the face for Christ' sake. Amen. Poor Matt Gregory
[in the published text this paragraph is given to Lucas]
FDV has "them" but surely it's "their"?
"Marcus Powerscourt" = marquess (also Jack Power in Ulysses?)
"in the pew" cf Bloom
"foolscap" dropped
so "Dion Boucicault" = a very early HCE? ( = Simon or Bloom in U-Hades?)
"we won't be too hard on him" extenuating-circumstances motif
"Matt poor Matt in his grey frock hat" intentional rhyme?
"pass the face" would be dropped
FW2: "they were all summarily divorced, four years before, or so they say, by their dear poor shehusbands... but still they parted... on the best of terms... By decree absolute... Mrs Dowager Justice Squelchman... at the Married Male Familyman's Auctioneers' court in Arrahnacuddle. Poor Johnny... because he was so slow to borstel her schoon for her... instead of backscratching her... proper... And poor Mark... because he forgot himself, making wind and water... and because he forgot to remembore to sign... a writing in request to hersute herself, on stamped brownanoleum... and too there was poor Dion... because... he attempted... some hunnish familiarities, after eten... a bad crab..."
And still and all they were always thinking of their four masters that were four beautiful sisters and there they were always counting the lovely periwinkle buttons in the front part of their dresses and there she was the beautiful four sisters and that was her name and they were looking for her everywhere in all the fathoms
[in the published text this paragraph is given to Matt]
waves' wives = sisters = masters?
"and that was her name" (singular, was "Brinabride"?)
"looking for her everywhere in all the fathoms" (no longer "touring the United States of Africia")
dropped: "Yet were they fettersome and lured by the immortal rose of Wombman’s beauty"
FW2: "four (up) beautful sister misters... and there they were always counting... the lovely mother-of-periwinkle buttons, according to the lapper part of their anachronism... and after that there now she was... the beautfour sisters, and that was her mudhen republican name... and they used to be getting up from under"
and then they had their tentacles and they used to be all hanging around all the waists of the ships the steamships and peering in through the steaming windows into the honeymoon cabins on board the big steamers and saloon ladies toilet apartments and rubbing off the cataract off the windows to see all the honeymooners and all the toilet ladies and their familiarities saying their grace before meals and watering and there they used to be counting all their peributtons to remember her beautiful name poor Gregory and Johnny the four sisters and there she was now asthore as in days of yore of planxty Gregory they used to be always singing and so now they started their singing and old Luke for auld luke syne and we make a cupboard coinerset for the pays savole [hang] shanghai..
"steamships... steaming windows... big steamers"
"hunnish familiarities... toilet ladies and their familiarities" (families, familiars)
"peributtons" cf familiars, peris
"asthore" = my treasure (Irish) [fweet-7]
set of coins in cupboard? (cf Deasy) or 'corner set' of furniture?
pays = country
"Savole" = liquid soap c1921, or paintings on wood in Florence Italy
letter 23/10/23 to HSW: 'Mr Quinn invited me to dinner... A friend of his told me there is a club in the far east where Chinese ladies (not American as I supposed) meet twice a week to discuss my mistresspiece. Needless to say the said club is in — shavole Shanghai!' (Letters I.206, clearly after he'd sent her a faircopy)
FW2: "they had their night tentacles and there they used to be... around the waists of the ships... the steamships and the women-o'-war... and their pair of green eyes and peering in... through the steamy windows, into the honeymoon cabins... and the saloon ladies' madorn toilet chambers... and rub off the salty catara off a windows and... listening... to see all the hunnishmooners and the firstclass ladies..."
FW2: "And there she was now right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory."
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