Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [152]
you, ninny? asks Kev,3 expecting the
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
answer guess.4 Nor was the noer long
disappointed for easiest of kisshams, he
was made vicewise. Oc, tell it to oui, do,
Sem! Well, ’tis oil thusly. First mull a
mugfull of mud, son.5 Oglores,
1 As Rhombulus and Rhebus went building rhomes one day. 2 The trouveller.
3 Of the disorded visage.
4 Singlebarrelled names for doubleparalleled twixtytwins. 5 Like pudging a spoon fist of sugans into a sotspot of choucolout. the virtuoser prays, olorum What the D.V.
would I to that for? That’s a goosey’s
gans-wer you’re for giving me, he is told,
what the Deva would you do that for?1
Now, sknow royol road to Puddlin, take
your mut for a first beginning, big to bog,
back to bach. Anny liffle mud which
cometh out of Mam will doob, I guess. A.I.
Amnium instar. And to find a locus for an
alp get a howlth on her bayrings as a
prisme O and for a second O unbox your
compasses. I cain but are you able?
Amicably nod. Gu it! So let’s seth off
betwain us. Prompty? Mux your pistany at
a point of the coastmap to be called a but
pro-nounced olfa. There’s the isle of Mun,
ah! O! Tis just. Bene! Now, whole in
applepine odrer 2
Wolsherwomens
(for — husk, hisk, a spirit spires — Dolph, dean of idlers, at their
meager suckling of gert stoan, though barekely a balbose boy, weirdst.
he too, — venite, preteriti,3 sine mora dumque de entibus nascituris decentius in lingua roman mortuorum parva chartula liviana ostenditur, seden-tes in letitiae super ollas carnium, spectantes immo situm lutetiae unde auspiciis secundis tantae consurgent humanae stirpes, antiquissimam flaminum amborium Jordani et Jambaptistae mentibus revolvamus sapientiam: totum tute fluvii modo mundo fluere, eadem quae ex aggere fututa iterum inter alveum fore futura, quodlibet file:///E|/Books/Top%20100%20Novels%20list/Finnegans%20Wake/complete.html[9/12/2007 12:21:58 PM]
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
sese ipsum per aliudpiam agnoscere contrarium, omnem demun amnem ripis rivalibus amplecti 4 — recurrently often, when him moved he would cake their chair, coached rebelliumtending mikes of his same and over his own choirage at Backlane Univarsity, among of which pupal souaves the pizdrool was pulled up, bred and bat1 Will you walk into my wavetrap? said the spiter to the shy. 2 If we each could always do all we ever did. 3 Dope in Canorian words we’ve made. Spish from the Doc. 4 Basqueesh, Finnican, Hungulash and Old Teangtaggle, the only pure way to work a curse.
tered, for a dillon a dollar,1 chanching letters for them vice o’verse to bronze mottes and blending tschemes for em in tropadores and doublecressing twofold thruths and devising tingling tailwords too whilest, cunctant that another would finish his sentence for him, he druider would smilabit eggways2 ned, he, to don’t say nothing, would, so prim, and pick upon his ten ordinailed ungles, trying to undo with his teeth the knots made by his tongue, retelling humself by the math hour, long as he’s brood reel of funnish ficts apout the shee, how faust of all and on segund thoughts and the thirds the charmhim girlalove and fourthermore and filthily with bag from Oxatown and baroccidents and proper accidence and hoptohill and hexenshoes, in fine the whole damning letter; and, in point of feet, when he landed in ourland’s leinster3 of saved and solomnones for the twicedhecame time, off Lipton’s strongbowed launch, the Lady Eva, in a tan soute of sails4 he converted it’s nataves, name saints, young ordnands, maderaheads and old unguished P.T. Publikums, through the medium of znigznaks with sotiric zeal, to put off the barcelonas5 from their peccaminous corpulums (Gratings, Mr Dane!) and kiss on their bottes (Master!) as often as they came within blood-shot of that other familiar temple and showed em the celestine way to by his tristar and his flop hattrick and his perry humdrum dumb and numb nostrums that he larned in Hymbuktu,6 and that same