Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [142]
that fragolance of the fraisey beds: the
phoenix, his pyre, is still flaming away
with trueprat-tight spirit: the wren his
nest is niedelig as the turrises of the
In snowdrop,
sabines are televisible. Here are the
trou-de-
dentelle, flesh
cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler
and helio-
and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde,
trope.
her chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af
liefest pose, arride the winnerful wonders
off, the winner-ful wonnerful wanders off,
3 with hedges of ivy and hollywood and
bower of mistletoe, are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you pleathes, 4 for the
blithehaired daughter of Angoisse. All out
of two barreny old perishers, Tytonyhands
and Vlossyhair, a kilolitre in
Here’s our
metromyriams. Presepeprosapia, the
dozen cousins
parent bole. Wone tabard, wine tap and
from the
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