Finnegans Wake - James Joyce [163]
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, good character, would help, no salary. 4 Where Lily is a Lady found the nettle rash. 5 Bubabipibambuli, I can do as I like with what’s me own. Nyamnyam. 6 Able seaman’s caution.
7 Rarely equal and distinct in all things.
Visit to Guinness’ Brewery, Clubs, Advan Noah. Plato. Horace. Isaac.
tages of the Penny Post, When is a Pun
Tiresias.
not a Pun? Is the Co–Education of
Marius.
Animus and Anima Wholly Desirable?1
Diogenes.
Procne, Philo-
What Happened at Clontarf? Since our
mela.
Brother Johnathan Signed the Pledge or
Abraham.
the Meditations of Two Young Spinsters,2
Nestor. Cincin-
Why we all Love our Little Lord Mayor,
natus.
Leonidas.
Hengler’s Circus Entertainment, On
Jacob.
Thrift,3 The Kettle–Griffith-Moynihan
Theocritus.
Scheme for a New Electricity Supply,
Joseph.
Fabius.
Travelling in the Olden Times,4 American
Samson. Cain.
Lake Poetry, the Strangest Dream that
Esop.
Prometheus.
was ever Halfdreamt. 5 Circumspection,
Lot. Pompeius
Our Allies the Hills, Are Parnellites Just
Magnus,
towards Henry Tudor? Tell a Friend in a
Miltiades
Chatty Letter the Fable of the Grasshopper
Strategos.
Solon. Castor,
and the Ant,6 Santa Claus, The Shame of
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Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
Pollux.
Slumdom, The Roman Pontiffs and the
Dionysius.
Sappho.
Orthodox Churches,7 The Thirty Hour
Moses. Job.
Week, Compare the Fistic Styles of Jimmy
Catilina.
Wilde and Jack Sharkey, How to
Cadmus.
Understand the Deaf, Should Ladies learn
Ezekiel.
Music or Mathematics? Glory be to Saint
Solomon.
Themistocles.
Patrick! What is to be found in a
Vitellius.
Dustheap, The Value of Circumstantial
Darius.
Evidence, Should Spelling? Outcasts in
India, Collecting Pewter, Eu,8 Proper and
Regular Diet Necessity For,9 If You Do It
Do It Now.
1 Jests and the Beastalk with a little rude hiding rod. 2 Wherry like the whaled prophet in a spookeerie. 3 What sins is pim money sans Paris!
4 I’ve lost the place, where was I?
5 Something happened that time I was asleep, torn letters or was there snow?
6 Mich for his pain, Nick in his past.
7 He has toglieresti in brodo all over his agrammatical parts of face and as for that hippofoxphiz, unlucky number, late for the christening!
8 Eh, Monsieur?