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 Preparing an illustration for "vicociclometer" 
Below is the passage (black font) to be illustrated from Finnegans Wake (page 614, lines 27-31)
Below the text are glosses (grey font) amassed by Wake researchers* 
Our wholemolemillwheeling vicociclometer, a tetradomational gazebocroticon (the “Mamma Lujah”                
wholemeal                              Vico’s cycles       4-dimensional    turret/lantern            Matthew, Mark, Luke and John    
                                                           cyclometer
known to every schoolboy scandaller, be he Matty, Marky, Lukey or John-a-Donk),             
                          Sheridan’s School for Scandal         4 evangelists      John-a-dreams (Hamlet II.2.295) dreamy fellow

autokinatonetically preprovided with a clappercouplingsmeltingworks exprogressive process, 
spontaneous motion                                                          smelting furnace       Work in Progress**        [614.27-31] 
*Special acknowledgement to Roland McHugh, author of Annotations to Finnegans Wake, Johns Hopkins University Press
** Joyce's original working title for Finnegans Wake
       

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