Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [141]
starves on
warm tavern 5 and, by ribbon
tripes.
development, from contact bridge to lease
lapse, only two millium two humbered and
eighty thausig nine humbered and sixty
radiolumin lines to the wustworts of a
Finntown’s generous poet’s office.
Distorted mirage, aloofliest of the plain,
wherein the
1 Now a muss wash the little face.
2 A viking vernacular expression still used in the Summerhill district for a jerryhatted man of forty who puts two fingers into his boiling soupplate and licks them in turn to find out if there is enough mushroom catsup in the mutton broth.
3 H’dk’fs’h’p’y.
4 Googlaa pluplu.
5 Tomley. The grown man. A butcher szewched him the bloughs and braches. I’m chory to see P. Shuter.
boxomeness of the bedelias 1 makes
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
hobby-hodge happy in his hole. 2 The
store and charter, Treetown Castle under
Lynne.-Riva-pool? Hod a brieck on it! But
its piers eerie, its span spooky, its toll but a till, its parapets all peripateting.
D’Oblong’s by his by. Which we all pass.
Tons. In our snoo. Znore. While we
hickerwards the thicker. Schein. Schore.
Which assoars us from the murk of the
mythe-lated in the barrabelowther,
bedevere butlered table round, past
Morningtop’s necessity and Harington’s
invention, to the clarience of the childlight in the studiorium upsturts. Here we’ll
dwell on homiest powers, love at the latch
with novices nig and nag. The chorus: the
principals. For the rifocillation of their
inclination to the manifestation of
irritation: doldorboys and doll. 3 After
sound, light and heat, memory, will and
understanding.
Here (the memories framed from walls
Bet you
PREAUSTERIC
fippence,
are minding) till wranglers for
MAN AND HIS
anythesious,
wringwrowdy wready are, F þ, (at gaze,
PURSUIT OF
there’s no pug-
respecting, four-teenth baronet, meet,
PAN gatory, are
HYSTERIC
altrettanth bancorot, chaff) and ere
yous game?
WOMAN.
commence commencement cata-launic
when Aetius check chokewill Attil’s
gambit, (that buxon bruzeup, give it a
burl!) lead us seek, O june of eves the
jenniest, thou who fleeest flicklesome the
fond fervid frondeur to thickly thyself
attach with thine efteased ensuer, 4
ondrawer of our uncon-scionable,
flickerflapper fore our unter—
1 I believe in Dublin and the Sultan of Turkey. 2 I have heard this word used by Martin Halpin, an old gardener from the Glens of Antrim who used to do odd jobs for my godfather, the Rev. B.B. Brophy of Swords.
3 Ravens may rive so can dove deelish.
4 A question of pull.
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
drugged,1 lead us seek, lote us see, light us find, let us missnot Maidadate, Mimosa
Multimim-etica, the maymeaminning of
maimoomeining! Elpis, thou fountain of
the greeces, all shall speer theeward,2
from kongen in his canteenhus to knivers
hind the knoll. Ausonius Audacior and
gael, gillie, gall.3 Singalingalying. Storiella There was a
as she is syung. Whence followeup with
sweet hopeful
end-speaking nots for yestures,
called Cis.
plutonically pur— suant on briefest
glimpse from gladrags, pretty
Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth
peas.
Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
URGES AND
unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it
WIDERURGES
waves us to yonder as the red, blue and
IN A PRIMITIVE SEPT.
yellow flogs time on the domisole,4 with a
blewy blow and a windigo. Where flash
becomes word and silents selfloud. To
brace congeners, trebly bounden and
asservaged twainly. Adamman,5 Emhe,
Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely
ogs Weib. Uwayoei! 6 So mag this sybilette
The Big Bear
be our shibboleth that we may syllable her
bit the Sailor’s
Only. Trouble,
well! Vetus may be occluded behind the
trouble,
mou in Veto but Nova will be nearing as
trouble.
their radient among the Nereids. A one of
charmers, ay, Una Unica, charmers,