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[alice wellintown]

A long walk the boyz take here: "So they went up Third Avenue, drowned
in the Street's great wind: all flapping and Irish Pennants.  Stencil
yarned." That phrase, "Irish Pennants" is also used to describe the
magnate in AGTD, right there in the Chapter Kai alluded to in his post
about pigs. In AGTD the magnate is in disguise, "with Irish pennants
flying head to toe" (AGTD.156). The nautical phrase carries a
derogatory connotation, as does "pug" when applied to the Irish nose,
and can be traced to the English Navy and the Irish pressed into
service. Of course, an Irish sailor might have another, subversive
meaning for the phrase and purpose for the hemps haphazardly hung.
But, here, in V.,  the phrase can be read as an absolute modifying
both "they went up" and the simple sentence, "Stencil yarned", so that
the wind here blows the loose threads of the bums (Stencil, Benny,
their double bums or shadow bums) and the yarn spun. Both phrases,
"spun yarns" and "Irish pennants" also connote the act of looming and
what looms in the loose and loquacious lines so Stencilized. The
Central Park scene is clearly indebted to the Eye or a Becket, that
is, the eye through which one secures or ties up an Irish pennant. Was
Beckett's father a surveyor his mother a nurse? More kind than kin
here, but flapping his wings like Mulligan and his gums like Molly
Molloy....



On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is that all about in Central Park?
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> Life or more wasteland, or?.......................
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