Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [161]
5 Alls Sings and Alls Howls.
read we in must book. It tells. He
prophets most who bilks the best.
And that salubrated sickenagiaour of
The Twofold
COME SI
Truth and the
yaours have teaspilled all my hazeydency.
COMPITA Conjunctive
Forge away, Sunny Sim! Sheepshopp.
CUNCTITI Appetites of
Bleating Goad, it is the least of things,
TITILATIO?
Oppositional
CONKERY
Eyeinstye! Imagine it, my deep dartry
Orexes.
CUNK,
dullard! It is hours giving, not more. I’m
Trishagion.
THIGHonly out for celebridging over the guilt of THIGHTthe gap in your hiscitendency. You are a TICKELLYTHIGH, LIGhundred thousand times welcome, old GERILAG,
wort-sampler, hellbeit you’re just about as
TITTERITOT,
culpable as my woolfell merger would be.
LEG IN A TEE,
In effect I could engage in an energument
LUG IN A
over you till you were republicly royally
LAW, TWO AT
A TIE, THREE
toobally prussic blue in the shirt after.1
ON A
Trionfante di bestia! And if you’re not
THRICKY
your bloater’s kipper may I never curse
TILL OHIO
OHIO
again on that pint I took of Jamesons. Old
IOIOMISS.
Keane now, you’re rod, hook and sinker,
old jubalee Keane! Biddy’s hair. Biddy’s
hair, mine lubber. Where is that Quin but
he sknows it knot but what you that are
my popular end-phthisis were born with a
solver arm up your sleep. Thou in shanty !
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
Thou in scanty shanty ! ! Thou in slanty
scanty shanty! ! ! Bide in your hush! Bide
in your hush, do! The law does not aloud
you to shout. I plant my penstock in your
postern, chinarpot. Ave! And let it be to
all remembrance. Vale. Ovocation of
maiding waters.2 For auld lang salvy
steyne. I defend you to champ my
scullion’s praises. To book alone belongs
the lobe. Foremaster’s meed3 will mark
tomorrow, when we are making
pilscrummage to whaboggeryin with
1 From three shellings. A bluedye sacrifice. 2 Not Kilty. But the manajar was. He! He! Ho! Ho! Ho!
3 Giglamps, Soapy Geyser, The Smell and Gory M Gusty. staff, scarf and blessed wallet and our
Abnegation is
ENTER THE
Adaptation.
aureoles round our neckkandcropfs where
COP AND
Cato. Nero.
as and when Heavysciusgardaddy, parent
HOW.
Saul. Aristotle.
who offers sweet-meats, will gift uns his
SECURES
Julius Caesar.
GUBERNANT
Noblett’s surprize. With this laudable
Pericles. Ovid.
URBIS
purpose in loud ability let us be
Adam, Eve.
TERROREM.
Domitian.
singulfied. Betwixt me and thee hung
Edipus
cong. Item, mizpah ends.
Socrates. Ajax.
But while the dial are they doodling
Homer.
dawd-ling over the mugs and the grubs?
Marcus
Aurelius.
Oikey, Impostolopulos?1 Steady steady
Alcibiades.
steady steady steady studiavimus. Many
Lucretius.
many many many many manducabimus.2
We’ve had our day at triv and quad and
writ our bit as intermidgets. Art,
literature, politics, economy, chemistry,
human-ity, &c. Duty, the daughter of
discipline, the Great Fire at the South City Markets, Belief in Giants and the Banshee,
A Place for Every-thing and Everything in
its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the
Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil
Service,3 The Voice of Nature in the
Forest,4 Your Favorite Hero or Heroine,
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
On the Benefits of Recreation,5 If
Standing Stones Could Speak, Devotion to
the Feast of the Indulgence of Portiuncula,
The Dublin Metropolitan Police Sports at
Ballsbridge, De-scribe in Homely Anglian
Monosyllables the Wreck of the
Hesperus,6 What Morals, if any, can be
drawn from Diarmuid and Grania?7 Do
you Approve of our Existing Parliamentary
System? The Uses and Abuses of Insects,
A
1 The divvy wants that babbling brook. Dear Auntie Emma Emma Eates. 2 Strike the day off, the nightcap’s on nigh. Goney, goney gone!
3 R.C., disengaged,