Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [143]
end-speaking nots for yestures,
called Cis.
plutonically pur— suant on briefest
glimpse from gladrags, pretty
Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth
peas.
Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
URGES AND
unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it
WIDERURGES
waves us to yonder as the red, blue and
IN A PRIMITIVE SEPT.
yellow flogs time on the domisole,4 with a
blewy blow and a windigo. Where flash
becomes word and silents selfloud. To
brace congeners, trebly bounden and
asservaged twainly. Adamman,5 Emhe,
Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely
ogs Weib. Uwayoei! 6 So mag this sybilette
The Big Bear
be our shibboleth that we may syllable her
bit the Sailor’s
Only. Trouble,
well! Vetus may be occluded behind the
trouble,
mou in Veto but Nova will be nearing as
trouble.
their radient among the Nereids. A one of
charmers, ay, Una Unica, charmers, who,
Forening Unge
Kristlike
under the branches of the elms, in shoes
Kvinne.
as yet unshent by stoni-ness, wend, went,
will wend a way of honey myrrh and
rambler roses mistmusk while still the
maybe mantles the meiblume or ever her
1 For Rose Point see Inishmacsaint.
2 Mannequins’ Pose.
3 Their holy presumption and hers sinfly desprit. 4 Anama anamaba anamabapa.
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
5 Only for he’s fathering law I could skewer that old one and slosh her out many’s the time but I thinks more of my pottles and ketts. 6 All abunk for Tarararat! Look slipper, soppyhat, we’ve a doss in the manger.
Telltale me all
if have faded from the fleur,1 their arms
of annaryllies.
enlocked, (ringrang, the chimes of sex
appealing as conchitas with sentas stray,2
rung!), all thinking all of it, the It with an itch in it, the All every inch of it, the
pleasure each will preen her for, the
business each was bred to breed by.3
Soon jemmijohns will cudgel about some
EARLY
a rhythmatick or other over Browne and
NOTIONS OF
Nolan’s divisional tables whereas she, of
ACQUIRED
minions’ novence charily being cupid, for
RIGHTS AND
Will you carry
THE INFLUmug’s wumping, grooser’s grubbiness, my can and
ENCE OF
andt’s avarice and grossopper’s
fight the
COLLECTIVE
fairies?
grandegaffe, with her tootpettypout of
TRADITION
jemenfichue will sit and knit on solfa
UPON THE
INDIVIDUAL.
sofa.4 Stew of the evening, booksyful stew.
And a bodikin a boss in the Thimble
Theatre. But all is her-inbourne. Intend.
Allma
From gramma’s grammar she has it that if
Mathers,
there is a third person, mascarine,
Auctioneer.
phelinine or nuder, being spoken abad it
moods prosodes from a person speaking
to her second which is the direct object
that has been spoken to, with and at. Take
the dative with his oblative5for, even if
obsolete, it is always of interest, so spake Old Gavelkind
gramma on the impetus of her imperative,
the Gamper
only mind your genderous towards his
and he’s as
daff as you’re
reflexives such that I was to your grappa
erse.
(Bott’s trousend, hore a man uff!) when
him was me hedon6 and mine, what the
lewdy saying, his analec-tual pygmyhop.7
There is comfortism in the
1 One must sell it to some one, the sacred name of love. 2 Making it up as we goes along.
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
3 The law of the jungerl.
4 Let me blush to think of all those halfwayhoist pullovers. 5 I’d like his pink’s cheek.
6 Frech devil in red hairing! So that’s why you ran away to sea, Mrs Lappy. Leap me, Locklaun, for you have sensed!
7 A washable lovable floatable doll.
knowledge that often hate on first hearing
comes of love by second sight. Have your
little sintalks in the dunk of subjunctions, dual in duel and prude with pruriel, but
even the aoriest chaparound whatever
plaudered perfect anent prettydotes and
haec genua omnia may perhaps chance to
be about to be in