Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [144]
a pale peterwright in spite of all your
tense accusatives whilstly you’re wallfloored1 like your gerandiums for the better half of a yearn or sob. It’s a wild’s kitten, my dear, who can tell a wilkling
from a warthog. For you may be as
practical as is predicable but you must
have the proper sort of accident to meet
that kind of a being with a difference.2
Flame at his fumbles but freeze on his
Undante
fist.3 Every letter is a godsend, ardent
umoroso. M.
Ares, brusque Boreas and glib Ganymede
50–50.
oþk þþàáoþ
like zealous Zeus, the O’Meghisthest of all. ãþþiþþþ
To me or not to me. Satis thy quest on.
Werbungsap! Jeg suis, vos wore a
gentleman, thou arr, I am a quean. Is a
game over? The game goes on. Cookcook !
Search me. The beggar the maid the
bigger the mauler. And the greater the
patrarc the griefer the pinch. And that’s
what your doctor knows. O love it is the
commonknounest thing how it pashes the
plutous and the paupe.4 Pop ! And egg she
active or spoon she passive, all them fine
clauses in Lindley’s and Murrey’s never
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
braught the participle of a present to a
desponent hortatrixy, vindicatively I say
it,
1 With her poodle feinting to be let off and feeling dead in herself. Is love worse living?
2 If she can’t follow suit Ren‚e goes to the pack. 3 Improper frictions is maledictions and mens uration makes me mad. 4 Llong and Shortts Primer of Black and White Wenchcraft. from her postconditional future.1
Lumpsome is who lumpsum pays.
Quantity counts though accents falter.
Yoking apart and oblique ora-tions parsed
I’ll go for that
small polly if
to one side, a brat, alanna, can choose
you’ll suck to
from so many, be he a sollicitor’s
your lebbens-
appendix, a pipe clerk or free functionist
quatsch.
flyswatter, that perfect little cad, from the languors and weakness of limberlimbed
lassi-hood till the head, back and
heartaches of waxedup womanage and
heaps on heaps of other things too. Note
the Respectable Irish Distressed Ladies
and the Merry Mustard Frothblowers of
Humphreystown Associa-tions. Atac first,
queckqueck quicks after. Beware how in
that hist subtaile of schlangder2 lies
liaison to tease oreilles ! To vert embowed
set proper penchant. But learn from that
ancient tongue to be middle old modern
to the minute. A spitter that can be
O’Mara
depended on. Though Wonderlawn’s lost
Farrell.
us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass!
Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is
Verschwindibus.
mistery of pain.3 You may spin on
youthlit’s bike and multiplease your Mike
and Nike with your kickshoes on the
algebrars but, volve the virgil page and
view, the O of woman is long when burly
those two muters sequent her so from
Nebob4 see you never stray who’ll nimm
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
you nice and nehm the day.
One hath just been areading, hath not
CONCOMIone, ya, ya, in their memoiries of
TANCE OF
Ulstria,
Hireling’s puny wars, end so, und all, ga,
COURAGE,
ga, of The O’Brien,
1 The gaggles all out.
2 He’s just bug nuts on white mate he hasn’t the teath nor the grits to choo and that’s what’s wrong with Lang Wang Wurm, old worbbling goesbelly.
3 Dear and I trust in all frivolity I may be pardoned for trespassing but I think I may add hell.
4 He is my all menkind of every desception.
The O’Connor, The Mac Loughlin and The
Monastir,
COUNSEL
Leninstar and
Mac Namara with summed their
AND CON Connecticut.
appondage, da, da, of Sire Jeallyous
STANCY.
ORDINATION
Seizer, that gamely torskmester,1 with his
Cliopatria, thy
OF OMEN,
hosies history.
duo of druidesses in ready money
ONUS AND
rompers2 and the tryonforit of OxthieOBIT. DISTRIBUTION
vious, Lapidous and Malthouse Anthemy.
OF DANGER,
You may fail