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editions: 1916, archive 1917, ditto, 1918 1921 1922, archive, ditto, ditto 1928 html?
audio: librivox1 librivox2
annotated: genius
notes: gifford kershner spark shmoop gradesaver jjon barger

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change the number pasted up inside his desk from seventyseven to seventysix.

76 days to go is still 2.5 months

if Stephen started at Clongowes on 1 Sept 1888, and Xmas holidays were to start on 20 December, this might suggest a date of Thursday 4 Oct 1888 [calendar]


It would be better to be in the studyhall than out there in the cold.

'Gas was introduced into the College in 1861 and because of the better quality of the gaslight; study time was extended later into the evening.'


The sky was pale and cold but there were lights in the castle. He wondered from which window Hamilton Rowan had thrown his hat on the haha and had there been flowerbeds at that time under the windows.

haha

One day when he had been called to the castle the butler had shown him the marks of the soldiers' slugs in the wood of the door and had given him a piece of shortbread that the community ate.



It was nice and warm to see the lights in the castle. It was like something in a book. Perhaps Leicester Abbey was like that.



And there were nice sentences in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book. They were like poetry but they were only sentences to learn the spelling from.

[ebook]


Wolsey died in Leicester Abbey
Where the abbots buried him.
Canker is a disease of plants,
Cancer one of animals.

'Wolsey died at Leicester Abbey, where the abbot buried him.' [ebook]
'Canker is a disease of plants, cancer one of animals.' [ebook]


It would be nice to lie on the hearthrug before the fire, leaning his head upon his hands, and think on those sentences.

homesick


He shivered as if he had cold slimy water next his skin. That was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.

probably not sewage
ditch by the square?

maybe 1901 engineer? (the name is usually Protestant)
a "Wells" reappears in Stephen Hero's ch18: "Stephen was... very much surprised one evening as he was walking past the Christian Brothers' School in North Richmond St to feel his arm seized from behind and to hear a voice say somewhat blatantly:
  --Hello, Daedalus, old man, is that you?
  Stephen turned round and saw a tall young man with many eruptions on his face dressed completely in heavy black. He stared for a few moments, trying to recall the face.
  --Don't you remember me? I knew you at once.
  --O, yes now I do, said Stephen. But you've changed.
  --Think so?
  --I wouldn't know you . . . Are you . . . in mourning?
  Wells laughed.
  --By Jove, that's a good one. Evidently a you don't know your Church when you see it..." [full etext]

hacking chestnuts [3min vid]


How cold and slimy the water had been! A fellow had once seen a big rat jump into the scum.



Mother was sitting at the fire with Dante waiting for Brigid to bring in the tea. She had her feet on the fender and her jewelly slippers were so hot and they had

"Stephen Hero" mentions a "Nurse Sarah" in Bray.

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