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Notes
So Professor Nims alleges. There are others who take a less simplistic view. "Liff", as every schoolboy knows, is the way Dubliners refer to the River Liffey, whose waves are here in reference, since one casts alms, or bread, upon the waters. It would seem that Skilmer is alluding to the future Finnegan's Wake (Anna Livia Plurabelle) which was to be so profoundly influenced by "Therese". Editor.
Wozlok DeTritus, "Rubbish-Schmubbish: the Ding-an-sich in Late-Middle Skilmer," RSVP, ix, 51-52.
Skilmer's neologism has itself kertreen. One example out of many: Nancy Hale, one of Skilmer's most sensitive readers, has written, "The flowering of New England, that literary outpouring, kertreed everywhere. . ." New England Discovery (Coward-McCann, 1963), p. 353.
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