[Vwoolf] Forths or fourths?

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“We’ve been asked to print Mr Joyce’s new novel . . . First there’s a dog that p’s—then there’s a man that forths, and one can be monotonous even on that subject” (L2 234).

Cf. EMF’s review, “Cambridge”, in the NS&N, 29/3/41, pp. 328, 330: “Lavatories were few and far once. They belonged to the Silent Service, and were called Fourths because one of them was rumoured to lurk in the fourth court of Trinity. Ivy peeped. To go to one was an expedition only rivalled by the taking of a bath.” (328)


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