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Showing 1-10 of 38 results for "water" water 26 Aug 2015, 02:02 by John SimpsonPriestly water-divining U 8.34-40: No families themselves to feed. Living on the fat of the land […] Does himself well. No guests. All for number one. Watching his ... Joyce's Words > water Heaven 30 Aug 2013, 02:07 by John SimpsonTreading water to paradise U 6.448-51: Cheaper transit. By easy stages. Houseboats. Camping out. Also hearses. To heaven by water . Perhaps I will without writing. Come as a ... Joyce's Allusions > Heaven Rates 28 Nov 2013, 13:15 by JJON EditorsCollecting the rates: Buckley, Cotter, Crofton, Henchy, and Weatherup James Joyce’s father, John Stanislaus Joyce, joined the Office of the Dublin Collector-General of Rates in 1882 and remained ... he recalls Boylan’s father's pretended deafness when he visits him about the water rate. At the same time (“How are the mighty fallen!” 12.24) he seems to ... Joyce's People > Rates gas 31 May 2015, 00:42 by John SimpsonLaid on like the gas D ("The Dead") 15.1028-9: – He has been laid on here like the gas, said Aunt Kate in the same tone, all during the ... power, in the form of compressed air, will be laid on, like gas or water , to the door of the manufactory. Journal of the Society of Arts (1872), 20 September ... Joyce's Words > gas aquacity 28 Nov 2013, 13:39 by JJON EditorsAquacity: awash with watery thoughts U 17.236-40 : What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom’s offer? That he was a hydrophobe [...] disliking the aqueous substances of glass ... Furthermore, it is a word that is easily re-inventable, based on Latin aqua ‘water’ and the (reasonably) common termination –acity (as in vivacity, loquacity, opacity, etc.), and so it ... Joyce's Words > aquacity walk 25 Aug 2015, 15:05 by John SimpsonMusical breakfasts and a walk with the band U 8.470-1: Halffed enthusiasts. Penny roll and a walk with the band. Don Gifford finds an explanation for Joyce’s ... 1859, the unwholesome “Irishman’s breakfast” was traditionally said to be “a glass of water and a walk with the band”, again possibly in allusion to the changing of the ... Joyce's Allusions > walk hencod 8 Feb 2016, 00:28 by John SimpsonFried hencods’ roes and mutton kidneys: these are a few of his favourite things U 4.2-5: He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver ... cleanse them thoroughly by parboiling them for ten minutes, then lay then in cold water for five minutes, after which they should be stewed in a gallon, with carrot, celery ... Joyce's Words > hencod throwaway 1 Mar 2016, 09:49 by JJON EditorsA crumpled throwaway: an arresting tale U 10.752-4: North wall and sir John Rogerson’s quay, with hulls and anchorchains, sailing westward, sailed by a skiff, a crumpled ... is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between the Customhouse old dock ... Joyce's Environs > throwaway Crofton 28 Nov 2013, 13:17 by JJON EditorsJames Crofton: a tradition of public service D 12.477-80 : - This is Parnell’s anniversary, said O’Connor, and don’t let’s stir up any bad blood. We ... four generations. James Crofton’s father, Mervyn Paget Crofton, was Supervisor of the Pipe Water Department, and was frequently noted in the Freeman for attending fires in Dublin to ensure ... Joyce's People > Rates > Crofton Whitsuntide 1 Sep 2014, 03:22 by John SimpsonBad luck arrives at Whitsuntide U 18.953: Whit Monday is a cursed day too no wonder that bee bit him In Ulysses there are four references to Whit Monday ... Whitsuntide as follows: Whitsuntide is a very fatal and unlucky time. Especially beware of water then, for there is an evil spirit in it, and no one should venture to ... Joyce's Allusions > Whitsuntide |