GR words question

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kelber at mindspring.com [mailto:kelber at mindspring.com]
> Gland pie? Maybe a poor person's version of steak-and-kidney pie. Smokeshriek? Maybe a factory whistle. "gentle beings..."? Possibly some sort of whisperings about bed partners.
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> >Subject: GR words question

> >Who are these 'gentle beings from the country'? Someting out of folklore?
> >
> >'...thousands of children who pestled foam up out of soft mortars of mouths, 
> >who lost easily a thousand times as many words among the chalky 
> >bubbles--bedgoing complaints, timid announcements of love, news of fat or 
> >translucent, fuzzy or gentle beings from the country under the counterpane 
> >...'

fat (possums), translucent (butterflies and moths), fuzzy (bunnies), gentle (deer) - critters that come up the lawn and right up to the window
I get a picture of kids brushing their teeth and saying they don't want to go to bed, "I love you Mommy", look at the bunny outside
> >
> >'gland pie'?
> >
> >'... the morning mouths growing with the day tobacco and fish-furred, dry 
> >with fear, foul with idleness, flooded at thoughts of impossible meals, 
> >settling instead for the week's offal in gland pies, ...'
> >
> >
didn't Joyce note that Bloom liked to eat glands? Kidney pie & so forth... offal, though I always thought it meant "garbage" actually means organ meat, I think (one of the Adrian Mole books has him as a celebrity chef in a restaurant called "Offally Good")

> >'smokeshriek linings'?
> >
> >
> >'... heaps of dimly fragrant metal, phantoms of peppermint in the winter 
> >shacks, each tube
> >wrinkled or embossed by the unconscious hands of London, written over in 
> >interference-patterns, hand against hand, waiting now--it is true return--to 
> >be melted for solder, for plate, alloyed for castings, bearings, gasketry, 
> >hidden smokeshriek linings the children of that other domestic
> >incarnation will never see. '
> >

ie brake linings -- they melt the metal and make it into stuff including brake linings that smoke and shriek when suddenly slammed on (as in a jeep driving on a battleground) 

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