Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Ithaca/639
Annotations
[edit | edit source]alias an assumed name; otherwise known as.[1]
(a mendacious person mentioned in sacred Scripture) Molly is probably confusing alias with Ananias, a liar mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles 5:3: But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Gifford (1988) 576.
Thornton (1968) 466. - ↑ Acts of the Apostles 5.