Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [145]
DUTY AND
Suetonia,3 but the reflections which recur
DESTINY.
POLAR PRINto me are that so long as beauty life is CIPLES.
body love4 and so bright as Mutua of your
mirror holds her candle to your caudle,
lone lefthand likeless, sombring Autum of
your Spring, reck you not one spirt of
anyseed whether trigemelimen cuddle his
coddle or nope. She’ll confess it by her
figure and she’ll deny it to your face. If
The Eroico
you’re not ruined by that one she won’t do
Furioso makes
you any whim. And then? What afters it?
the valet like
smiling.
Cruff Gunne may blow, Gam Gonna flow,
the gossans eye the jennings aye. From
the butts of Heber and Heremon, nolens
volens, brood our pansies, brune in
The hyperape
the mink he
brume. There’s a split in the infinitive
groves the
from to have to have been to will be. As
mole you see
they warred in their big innings ease now
nowfor
we never shall know. Eat early
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
crushsake,
earthapples. Coax Cobra to chatters. Hail,
chawley!
Heva, we hear! This is the glider that
gladdened the girl5 that list to the wind
that lifted the leaves that folded the fruit that hung on the tree that grew in the
garden Gough gave. Wide hiss, we’re
wizen1 All his teeths back to the front, then the moon and then the moon with a hole behind it.
2 Skip one, flop fore, jennies in the cabbage store. 3 None of your cumpohlstery English here!
4 Understudy my understandings, Sostituda, and meek thine complinement, gymnufleshed. 5 Tho’ I have one just like that to home, deadleaf brown with quicksilver appliques, would whollymost applissiate a nice shiny sleekysilk out of that slippering snake charmeuse.
ing. Hoots fromm, we’re globing. Why
hidest thou hinder thy husband his name?
Leda, Lada, aflutter-afraida, so does your
girdle grow! Willed without witting,
whorled without aimed. Pappapassos,
Mammamanet, warwhets-wut and
whowitswhy.1 But it’s tails for toughs and
Pige pas.
titties for totties and come buckets comebats till deeleet. 2
Dark ages clasp the daisy roots, Stop, if
PANOPTICAL
you are a sally of the allies, hot off
PURVIEW OF
Minnowaurs and naval actiums, picked
POLITICAL
PROGRESS
engagements and banks of rowers. Please
AND THE
stop if you’re a B.C. minding missy, please
FUTURE PREdo. But should you prefer A.D. stepplease.
SENTATION
And if you miss with a venture it serves
OF THE PAST.
you girly well glad. But, holy Janus, I was
forgetting the Blitzen-kopfs! Here,
Hengegst and Horsesauce, take your
heads3 out of that taletub! And leave your
hinnyhennyhindyou! It’s haunted. The
chamber. Of errings. Whoan, tug, trace,
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
stirrup! It is distinctly understouttered
that, sense you threehandshighs put your
twofoot-large timepates in that dead wash
of Lough Murph and until such time pace
Seidlitz
one and the same Messherrn the grinning
powther for
statesmen, Brock and Leon, have shunted
slogan
the grumbling coundedtouts, Starlin and
plumpers.
Ser Artur Ghinis. Foamous homely brew,
bebattled by bottle, gageure de guegerre.4
Bull igien bear and then bearagain
bulligan. Gringrin gringrin. Staffs varsus
herds and bucks vursus barks.
Hoploits and 1 What’s that ma’am? says I. atthems.
2 As you say yourself.
3 That’s the lethemuse but it washes off.
4 Where he fought the shessock of his stimmstammer and we caught the pepettes of our lovelives.
By old Grumbledum’s walls. Bumps,
Curragh
machree, me
bellows and bawls.1 Opprimor’s down, up
bosthoon
up Opima! Rents and rates and tithes and
fiend. Femilies
taxes, wages, saves and spends. Heil,
hug bank! All
we suffered
heptarched span of peace!2 Live, league of
under them
lex, nex and the mores! Fas est dass and
Cow-dung
foe err you. Impovernment of the booble
Forks