Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [157]
yaghags hogwarts and
arrahquinonthiance, it’s the muddest thick
that was ever heard dump since
Eggsmather got smothered in the plap of
the pfan. Now, to compleat anglers,
beloved bironthiarn and hushtokan
hishtakatsch, join alfa pea and pull loose
by dotties and, to be more sparematically
logoical, eelpie and paleale by trunkles.
Alow me align while I encloud especious !
The Nike done it. Like pah,4 I peh. Innate
little bondery. And as plane as a poke
stiff.5 Now, aqua in buccat. I’ll make you
to see figuratleavely the whome of your
eternal
1 Parsee ffrench for the upholdsterer would be delightered. 2 I’ll pass out if the screw spliss his strut. 3 Thargam then goeligum? If you sink I can, swimford. Suksumkale!
4 Hasitatense?
5 The impudence of that in girl’s things!
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
geomater. And if you flung her headdress
Destiny, In-
flunce of
on her from under her highlows you’d
Design upon.
wheeze whyse Salmonson set his seel on a
Prometheus or
hexen-gown.1 Hissss!, Arrah, go on! Fin
the Promise of
Provision
for fun! You’ve spat your shower like a son
of Sibernia but let’s have at it! Subtend to me now! Pisk! Outer serpumstances beiug
ekewilled, we care-fully, if she pleats, lift by her seam hem and jabote at the
spidsiest of her trickkikant (like thousands done before since fillies calpered. Ocone !
Ocone !) the maidsapron of our A.L.P.,
fearfully! till its nether nadir is vortically where (allow me aright to two cute
winkles) its naval’s napex will have to
beandbe. You must proach near mear for
at is dark. Lob. And light your mech.
Jeldy! And this is what you’ll say.2
Waaaaaa. Tch! Sluice! Pla! And their,
redneck, (for addn’t we to gayatsee with
Puhl the Pun-kah’s bell?)mygh and thy,
the living spit of dead waters,3 fastness
firm of Hurdlebury Fenn, discinct and
isoplural in its (your sow to the duble)
sixuous parts, flument, fluvey and
fluteous, midden wedge of the stream’s
your muddy old triagonal delta, fiho miho,
plain for you now, appia lippia pluvaville,
(hop the hula, girls!) the no niggard spot
of her safety vulve, first of all usquiluteral threeingles, (and why wouldn’t she sit
cressloggedlike the lass that lured a
tailor?) the constant of fluxion,
Mahamewetma, pride of the province4
and when that tidled boare rutches up
from the Afrantic, allaph quaran’s his bett
und bier! 5
1 The chape of Do¤a Speranza of the Nacion.
2 Ugol egal ogle. Mi vidim Mi.
3 It is, it is Sangannon’s dream.
4
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
And all meinkind.
5 Whangpoos the paddle and whiss whee whoo.
Paa lickam laa lickam, apl lpa ! This it is
Ambages and
Their R“le.
an her. You see her it. Which it whom you
Ecclasiastical
see it is her. And if you could
and Celestial
goaneggbetter we’d soon see some raffant
Hierarchies.
scrumala riffa. Quicks herit fossyending.
The Ascending.
Quef! So post that to your pape and
The
Descending.
smarket ! And you can haul up that
The peripatetic
languil pennant, mate. I’ve read your
periphery. It’s
tunc’s dimissage. For, let it be taken that
Allothesis.
her littlenist is of no magnetude or again
let it be granted that Doll the laziest can
be dissimulant with all respects from Doll
the fiercst, thence must any what-youlike
in the power of empthood be either
greater than or less than the unitate we
have in one or hence shall the vectorious
ready-eyes of evertwo circumflicksrent
searclhers never film in the elipsities of
their gyribouts those fickers which are
returnally reprodictive of themselves.1
Which is unpassible. Quarrel-lary. The
logos of somewome to that base any—
thing, when most characteristically
mantissa minus, comes to nullum in the
endth:2 orso, here is nowet badder than
the sin of Aha with his cosin Lil,
verswaysed