Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 24

Line 24: "She maddily recalls her fishermum warmin' up the jung mastur's bait incide her muth on chillywilly ofterrnoons, or thinkshe-thinkshe does."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "She dimly recalls her mother warming up the young master's penis inside her mouth on cold afternoons, or thinks she does."

"maddily"
Lucia dimly or recalls in a muddled way, a disgusting image. But she's unsure of this (as she admits at the end of the sentence) and it could just be a false memory created by her madness ("maddily").

"fishermum"
Her mom, Nora Barnacle, becomes a fisherman here in the metaphor of a fisherman keeping the worms in his mouth to keep them warm and wiggling to more readily attract the fish.

"jung"
Lucia Joyce was a patient of Jung's for a short while during which (or soon after) she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. This calls back to her remembering this "maddily," suggesting that this memory could easily be a hallucination of her mental illness.

"mastur's bait"
Hee hee. I mean, gross. Not that anybody would consider your mother noshing on your penis as masturbation but Moore gets his point across anyway.

"incide"
The spelling indicates the incestuous act.

"her muth"
I don't know. I guess taking the "o" out of mouth hints at the word "mother"?

"chillywilly"
Continuing the "fisherman puts the worms in this mouth to keep them warm" metaphor for Nora putting Giorgio's penis in her mouth. "Chilly willy" equals "cold penis."

"ofterrnoons"
Perhaps hinting at the word "often," as in Lucia believes she saw this multiple times (thus "afternoons," plural).

"chillywilly ofterrnoons, or thinkshe-thinkshe does."
This feels like Lucia is getting a bit glitchy in her thinking, perhaps indicating her inability to recall truth from paranoia and hallucinations. This kind of schizophrenic thinking can turn thoughts into deep layers of meaning that need to be uncovered, thus Lucia thinks something and then she thinks she thinks something else about that something and then she may think she thinks she thinks, and so on.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 23

Line 23: "How the peer of hum were all-ways clost, unhearthily so in her cestimation, from the grendle to the crave?"

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "How the pair of them were always close, unhealthily so in her estimation, from the cradle to the grave?"

"peer of hum"
There are 48 pages of this shit. I'm not going to understand it all (or maybe even half)! Peer could mean looking or gazing, perhaps between mother and son a bit too intensely. It could also mean as in a peer group but that's probably reaching so I'm going to stop considering it now. The "hum" could be that they were in a weird rhythm or constantly close and whispering, sounding like a single droning noise. In any case, this evokes both a visual and an auditory suggestion of the two of them tightly knit.

"all-ways clost"
In every way, perhaps in ways unimaginable and obscene, they were constantly close. But if this relationship were actually incestuous, one might consider that they were both lost in every way, morally, legally, ethically, spiritually . . . you name it! All ways, man!

"unhearthily so"
Incest would be an unhealthy activity to partake in (I'm assuming because it's gross to think about on a personal level (although kind of hot on a porn level)). It could also be "unhearthily" in that it breaks up the family, the "hearth" being the heart of the home.

"in her cestimation"
"In her cestimation. "In cestimation." "In cest." "Incest." This has been an episode of The Electric Company you never wanted to see.

"grendle to the crave"
Partially mutated spoonerism of "cradle to the grave" with a nice Grendel reference tossed in, being that in Beowulf, the monster was a bit of a momma's boy too. And of course the "crave" to suggest that Giorgio was just too hot for his mother to ignore. Also remember how the dragon in Beowulf was just a really lengthy penis reference? That doesn't have anything to do with this though.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 22

Line 22: "Woden that expain a Lot, now, about Morma and her Gorgo?"

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Wouldn't that explain a lot, now, about Momma and her Giorgio?"

"Woden"
Why bring up Odin? Perhaps because he had many children by different wives thus mirroring the possibility that Nora had children by different men. Or perhaps this is a hint at an intimate relationship between mother and son as well, as Odin married at least one of his own daughters.

"expain"
The entire thing caused a lot of pain.

"Lot"
Lot slept with his daughters. So I think maybe I know why Odin was mentioned! Although Lot was drunk so I guess The Bible says it's not too big a deal if you get drunk and allow your daughters to seduce you because they've just seen two cities destroyed and surely no other men survived those two cities being destroyed so they kind of had to fuck their dad, right?

"Morma"
According to Wikipedia, "The original Mormo was a woman of Corinth, who ate her children then flew out; according to an account only attested in a single source." I respect Alan Moore's esoteric knowledge enough to believe he probably read that single source first hand. Anyway, "Morma" is probably a combination of "Mormo" and "ma" (but maybe not?!). Mormo could also equate to being a bugbear or a bogeyman used to frighten children.

"Gorgo"
Giorgio but perhaps with a reference to Gorgons? If this is meant to reference Gorgons, is it meant simply to refer back to Nora as the Mormo does, meaning she's a frightening monster? "Gorgos" is also an Ancient Greek word that means "grim or dreadful," thus it invokes the same idea as "Gorgon" but in a less gendered way. To Lucia, Giorgio was probably grim and dreadful because of the acts he performed on her. Another possibility: "Gorgos" was a British Thoroughbred racehorse in the Edwardian Era. Initially successful, he was quickly retired and became a successful breeding stud for many years. His mother (mare) was named The Gorgon which works well here in that it fixes all the problems I had with transferring the idea of "Gorgon" to Nora.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 21

Line 21: "The mater had been left unseddled."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "The matter had been left unsettled."

"mater"
German for "mother". But also simply "a person who mates." So both Nora was left unsettled by the encounter and the identity of the person who fathered Giorgio was left undetermined.

"unseddled"
"Unsettled" with the hint of something being "unsaid." Also Nora was referenced as a "mare" in the last sentence so probably also the idea of "unsaddled," as in "the mare/mother was left unsaddled," suggestive of Nora not being tamed or monogamous. Nora also refuses to say ("unsaid") whom the father is or whether she even knows for sure.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 20

Line 20: "Is Dis Nod my sun, her darkglassed da had cried in his tormental angruish, to witch the briny mare durst not deply."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "'Is this not my son?', her regardless dad had cried in his torment and anguish, to which the briny mare dared not reply."

"Dis"
Capitalized so probably in reference to the Roman god of the underworld who was originally associated with fertile agricultural land. So Lucia associates Giorgio with both fertility and Hell.

"Nod"
The land where Cain was forced to wander, reinforcing the idea of Giorgio as a metaphorical Cain.

"sun"
Giorgio was the light of James Joyce's life so finding out that he might not actually be his biological child would darken his world.

"darkglassed"
I've interpreted "darkglassed" as "regardless" simply because it sounds the most like this formation and James could be seen as being regardless in the way he treated his family, thus it would be years before he might even question Giorgio's actual parentage. "Darkglassed" would also seem to be a synonym for "regardless" in that it would make it hard for a person to see what is around them, thus not paying much attention to the situation around them. As in not being able to see that his son was fucking his daughter. He wore "dark glasses" both because his vision was obscured to what was right in front of him and also possibly to dampen the light of love he had for his son.

"tormental"
Torment as in haunted or suffering. Mental as in, well, the same, I guess! But also with the hint of madness or insanity. Perhaps his mental torment was nothing more than a crazy notion built up after hearing some terrible gossip from his wife's former lover.

"angruish"
"Anguish" and, I suppose, "angry" or "anger," possibly even "argue." This gossip has put James in a state of mental anguish and made him so angry that he's arguing with his wife.

"witch"
Nora Barnacle whom James currently considers to be a huge jerk. Although what did he expect? Her not to fuck a guy around the same time she began fucking him?!

"briny mare"
I didn't translate this into anything new in the Non-Lucy-Lips Version because it seems to stand on its own as is. "Mare" is close enough to "ma" that it possibly could be that although what "briny" would imply in that case, I'm not sure. Anyway, Nora has been thought of as a farm animal earlier so equating her with a female horse is right up every member of the Joyce family's alley, it seems. "Briny mare" also evokes a sea horse which, if you can manage to squint your brain just right, brings back the mermaid motif which I completely don't understand. "Briny" can mean "salty" which is what Nora probably was at this moment even though she doesn't speak in Lucia's memory. I'm sure she was angry, possibly "spiny" which "briny" might also suggest.

"durst"
Archaic form of "dared," possibly to remind everybody of all the Biblical nonsense going on? Definitely not a Limp Bizkit reference.

"deply"
"Reply" but with the hint of "dared not deny." Perhaps she dared not deny because it was the truth but also because denying it would have simply made James angrier.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 19

Line 19: "He'd met with Cowsgrope the Invincible who had confleshed to scraping the odd barnacle in nineteen nundread-for, the year that Orgy-porgy-puttin-pie was farst consceptered."

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Her father James had met with Cowsgrope the Invincible who had confessed to 'scraping the odd barnacle' in 1904, the year that Giorgio was conceived."

"Cowsgrope the Invincible"
No clue who this might be but assuredly a past lover of Nora's and my next Dungeons and Dragons character. The "Cowsgrope" because Nora has been compared numerous times to a cow by Lucia and the "grope" to show that this person shared some sexual liaison with Nora. But why Invincible?!

"confleshed"
Confessed merged with fleshed, as in the confession was one of a sexual nature.

"scraping the odd barnacle"
Nora's last name was Barnacle so this is a confession of having been intimate with Nora.

"nineteen nundread-for"
The incident took place in 1904. But it is unknown when James met with Cowsgrope or when the letter was sent to Nora. So the letter probably arrived sometime when the children where old enough to understand the consternation it caused Nora, being an accusation of infidelity from her husband. "Nundread-for"? I guess because nuns dread coitus?

"Orgy-porgy-puttin-pie"
Giorgio with acknowledgment that his conception is unclear, being that Nora had a whole orgy of lovers at the time (two being an orgy in 1904). Georgie-peorgie-pudding-and-pie is a kid's rhyme but done dirty in this case by adding "orgy" and "puttin-pie" which is a slang term for doing it. You know, putting the penis inside the vagina.

"farst consceptered."
This is a fart joke followed by a dick joke, isn't it?! "Farst" probably means something like Giorgio was conceived far away and also first and maybe it was essentially a farce because look at what he's been doing to his ten year old sister. And "consceptered" is a dick joke because it has "scepter" shoved into conceived. At least it's probably meant to be conceived even if "scepter" doesn't really fit too well in that word. Maybe like how James' scepter might not have fit into the odd barnacle in the way he thought because Cowsgrope's scepter was all up in there.

Alan Moore's Jerusalem: Book 3: Vernall's Inquest: Round the Bend: Line 18

Line 18: "Hidn't there once been a scarlet letter, a dismissive from their Further in the Land of Ire?"

Non-Lucy-Lips Version: "Hadn't there once been a letter, a missive from their father while in Ireland?"

"Hidn't"
Lucia continues her speculation that Giorgio may not be her brother by thinking about family secrets, things hidden from the children.

"a scarlet letter"
A hint of infidelity contained in a letter from James to Nora while he was in Ireland. The Scarlet Letter of course being a reference to adultery.

"dismissive"
The letter, whatever was in it, was meant more to tear apart the family than to bring them together. Perhaps James "dismissing" Nora for some another.

"Further"
James was both far away in Ireland while they were in France and far away emotionally, wrapped up in his writing, drinking, and travels.

"Land of Ire?"
The letter was cause for anger, argument, and resentment. This is a question in Lucia's mind because it was something which happened before the children were born (as it possibly pertains to Giorgio's parentage) and subsequently "hidden" from the children. But it obviously caused much emotional turmoil in the household over the years or Lucia wouldn't even have this vague inkling of it.