Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [149]
has concomitated to this that she shall
tread them lifetrees leaves whose silence
hitherto has shone as sphere of silver
fastalbarnstone, that fount Bandusian
shall play liquick music and after odours
sigh of musk. Blotsbloshblothe, one dear
that was. Sleep in the water, drug at the
fire, shake the dust off and dream your
one who would give her sidecurls to. Till
later
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
Lammas is led in by baith our washwives,
a weird of wonder tenebrous as that evil
thorn-garth, a field of faery blithe as this flowing wild.
Aujourd’hui comme aux temps le Pline et
Mai
THE PART
maintenante
de Columelle la jacinthe se plait dans les
PLAYED BY
elle est venuse.
Gaules, la pervenche en Illyrie, la
BELLETRI Two Dons
PAXmarguerite sur les ruines de Numance1 et
Johns Threes
BELLUM.
Totty Askins.
pendant qu’autour d’elles les villes ont
MUTUOMOR Also Spuke
chang‚ de maOEtres et de noms, que
PHOMUTATION.
Zerothruster.
plusieurs sont entr‚es dans le n‚ant, que
SORTES VIR A saxum
GINIANAE.
les civilisations se sont choqu‚es et bris‚es, shillum for the
INTERROGATION.
leurs paisibles g‚n‚rations ont travers‚ les sextum but
EXCLAMATION.
nothums for
ages et sont arriv‚es jusqu’… nous,
that parridge
fraOEches et riantes comme aux jours des
preast.
batailles. 2
Margaritomancy! Hyacinthinous pervinciveness ! Flowers. A cloud. But Bruto and Cassio are ware only of trifid tongues3 the
whispered wilfulness, (’tis demonal!) and
sha-dows shadows multiplicating (il
folsoletto nel falsoletto col fazzolotto dal fuzzolezzo),4 to-tients quotients, they
tackle their quarrel. Sicka— moor’s so
woful sally. Ancient’s aerger. And eachway
bothwise glory signs. What if she love
Sieger less though she leave Ruhm moan?
That’s how our oxyggent has gotten ahold
of half their world. Moving about in the
free of the air and mixing with the ruck.
Enten eller, either or.
And!
Nay, rather!
1 The nasal foss of our natal folkfarthers so so much now for Valsinggiddyrex and his grand arks day triump. 2 Translout that gaswind into turfish, Teague, that’s a good bog and you, Thady, poliss it off, there’s nateswipe, on to your blottom pulper. 3 You daredevil donnelly, I love your piercing lots of lies and your flashy foreign mail so here’s my cowrie card, I dalgo, with all my exes, wise and sad.
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
With sobs for his job, with tears for his
toil, with horror for his squalor but with
pep for his perdition,1 lo, the boor plieth
as the laird hireth him.
Boon on begyndelse.
At maturing daily gloryaims! 2
A flink dab for a freck dive and a stern
Tricks stunts.
ANTITHESIS
Truckeys’ cant
poise for a swift pounce was frankily at
OF AMBI for dactyl and
the manual arith sure enough which was
DUAL
spondee.
the bekase he knowed from his cradle, no
ANTICIPATION.
Panoplous
THE MIND
bird better, why his fingures were giving
pere-grine
FACTORY, ITS
him whatfor to fife with. First, by
pifflicative
GIVE AND
pomposity.
observation, there came boko and nigh
TAKE.
him wigworms and nigh him tittlies and
AUSPICIUM.
AUGURIA.
nigh him cheekadeekchimple and nigh
DIVINITY
him pickpocket with pickpocketpumb,
NOT DEITY
pick-pocketpoint, pickpocketprod,
THE UNCERpickpocket— promise and upwithem. Holy
TAINTY
JUSTIFIED BY
Joe in lay Eden.3 And anyhows always
OUR
after them the dimpler he weighed the
CERTITUDE.
fonder fell he of his null four lovedroyd
EXAMPLES.
curdinals, his element cur-dinal numen
and his enement curdinal marryng and his
epulent curdinal weisswassh and his
eminent curdinal Kay O’Kay. Always
would he be reciting of them, hoojahs
koojahs, up by rota, in his Fanden’s
catachysm from