FINNEGANS WAKE
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I.6§4 (FW 159.24 - 168)
As I have now successfully explained to you my own naturalborn rations which are even in excise of my vaultybrain insure me that I am a mouth's more deserving case by genius. (f39I'm Armory, so herald me, but he's merely the size of his shirt. The Jonases were juanisersº
in Lyoness before the first Schmied started to forge. For see my stitchwork! A boche beuglantº in a field flam. Motto: Twist im ann insulte! Mookse makes for Muth and his Muth makes for Mastery wile Gripes yieldsº to Guile but his Guile'llº yield the faster he is Faced in
Front and Forced to acknowledge that the Roarer Rules the Knaves Leonidas!f10)
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(f39⇒ Mookse,º Mookse, Mookse! I could face a phalanx philistine!f10)
(f39⇒ And Gripes, Gripes, Gripes!º I could chor em wiv zis jor of mine!ºf10)
(f39⇒ For I feel like Jamsen Samsen,º Hamsen and Yan Yammesen. But nevertheleastº
alsoºf10) I feel in symbathos for my ever devoted friend and halfaloafonwashed (f39brother,ºf10) Gnaccus Gnoccovitch. Darling
(f39gem germºf10)! Darling smallfox! Horoseshoew! I could love that man like my own ambo for being so baileycliaver though he's a nawful
(f39curillass cyrillassºf10) and I must slav to methodiousness. I want him to go and live like a theabild in charge of the night brigade on Tristan da Cunha, isle of
manoverboard, where he'll make Number 106 and be near Inaccessible.
(f39⇒ºf10) (The meeting of mahoganies, be the waves, (f39rementious
rementionsºf10) me that this exposed sight though it pines for an umbrella of its own and needs a shelter belt of the true service sort to keep its
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boles clean(f39,f10) — the weeping beeches, Picea and Tillia, are in a wild state about it — ought to be classified, as Cricketbutt Willowm and his two nurserymen advisers suggested, under genus
(f39Inexhaustible Inexhaustibleºf10) when we refloat upon all the
(f39butternat butternutºf10), sweet gum and manna ash redcedera which is so purvulent there as if there was howthorns in Curraghchasa which ought to look as plane as a
lodgepole to anybody until we are introduced to that pinetacotta of Verney (f39Rubeus Rubensºf10) where the deodarty is pinctured for us in a pure stand, which we do not
doubt (f39ha heºf10) has a habitat of doing, but without those
(f39selfsownseedlings selfsown seedlingsºf10) which are a species of proof that the largest individual can occur at or in an olivetion such as East Conna Hillock
where it mixes with foolth accacians and common sallies and is tender(f39).ºf10) Vux
(f39Populus populusf10) , as we say in
hickoryhockery(f39,ºf10) and I wish we had some more glasses of arbor vitae. Why (f39roat
rootºf10) by the roadside or awn over alum pot? Alderman (f39Whitebeaver
Whitebeamºf10) is (f39dakyo.
oaky-o.)ºf10)
(f39⇒ºf10) He ought to go away for a change of ideas (f39and. Andºf10) he'd have a world of things to look back on. Do, sweet Daniel! If I weren't a jones in myself I'd elect myself to be his dolphin in the wildsbillow because he is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites and to the irony of the stars. (f39And he wants my addition of meal, meat, bread, butter,f10) (f39dripping, eggs, tea and cabbage with a doorstep! I oughtº not to indulge on this stage still I will think he is so veryº allirish!ºf10) You will say it is most unenglish and I shall hope to hear that you will not be wrong about it. But I further, feeling a bit husky in my truths(f39. …ºf10)
Will you please come over and let us mooremoore murgessly to each's other down below our vices. (f39I iºf10) am
(f39beingºf10) underheerd by old billfaust. (f39Wilsh
wilshºf10) is full of curks. (f39The theºf10)
coolskittle is philip deblinite. (f39Mr mrºf10) (f39Wist
wistºf10) is thereover beyeind the wantnot. (f39Wilsh
wilshºf10) and wist are as thick of thins udder as faust on
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the deblinite. Sgunoshooto estas preter la tapizo malgranda. (f39Lilegas Li legasºf10) al si en sia chambro. Kelkefoje funcktas, kelkefoje srumpas
(f39Shultroj shultrojºf10). (f39Houdian Kiel
Houdiau kielºf10) vi fartas, mia nigra sinjoro? And from the poignt of fun where I am crying to arrive you at they are on (f39allfore all
foreºf10) as foibleminded as you can feel they are fablebodied.
My heeders will recoil with (f39af10) great leisure how at the outbreak before trespassing on the space question where even
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michelangelines have fooled to dread I proved to mindself as to your sotisfiction how his abject all through (the quickquid of Professor (f39Ciondolone's
Ciondoloni'sºf10) too frequently hypothecated Bettlermensch) is nothing so much more than a mere
cashdime(f39,ºf10) however genteel he may want ours, if we please (I am speaking to us in the second person), (f39to feel about
it,ºf10) for to this graded (f39intellecktuals intellacktualsºf10) dime
is cash and the cash system (you must not be allowed to forget that this is all contained, I mean the system, in the dogmarks of origen on spurios) means that I cannot now have or nothave a piece of cheeps in your pocket at the same time and with the same manners as you can now nothalf or half the cheek apiece I've in mind unless Burrus and Caseous have not or not have seemaultaneously
sysentangled themselves, selldear to soldthere, once in the dairy days of buy and buy.
Burrus, let us like to imagine, is a genuine prime, the real choice, full of natural greace, the mildest of milkstoffs yet unbeaten as a risicide and, of course, obsoletely unadulterous(f39,ºf10) whereat Caseous is obversely the revise of him and in fact not an ideal choose by any meals, though the betterman of the two is meltingly addicted to the more casual side of the (f39arrivaliste arrivalist'sºf10) case and, let me say it at once, as zealous over him as is passably he.
(f39⇒ºf10) The seemsame home and histry seeks and hidepence which we used to be reading for our
prepurgatory(f39, (f10) hot,
Schott?(f39)ºf10) till Duddy shut the shopper op and Mutti(f39,
(f10) poor Mutti!(f39)ºf10) brought us our poor
suppy(f39,ºf10) (ah who! eh how!(f39!f10))
in Acetius and Oleosus and Sellius Volatilis and Petrus Papricus! Our Old Party quite united round the Slatbowel at Commons: Pfarrer Salamoss himself and that sprog of a Pedersill and his Sprig of Thyme and a dozen of the Murphybuds and a score and more of the hot young Capels and Lettucia in her greensleeves and you too and me three, twinsome bibs but hansome ates, like shakespill and eggs! But
there's many a split pretext bowl and jowl; and (snob screwing that cork, Schott!) to understand this as well as you can, feeling how backward you are in your down-to-the-ground benches, I have completed the following arrangement for the coarse use of stools (f39and if I don't make away with
you I'm beyond Caesar outnulusedf10).
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(f39⇒ Cheese it.ºf10)
The older sisars ((f39Tyrants tyrantsf10), regicide is too good for you (f39and if I don't make away with you I'm beyond
Caesar outnullusedf10)!)(f39,f10) become unbeurrable from
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age(f39,f10) (the compositor of the farce of dustiny however makes a (f39thunpledrum
thumpledrumºf10) mistake by letting off this pienofarte effect as his furst act as that is where the juke comes in)(f39,f10) having been
sort-of-nineknived and chewly removed (this (f39soldier - author - batman soldier-author-batmanºf10) for all his commontoryism is just another of those souftsiezed bubbles
who never quite got the sandhurst out of his eyes so that the champaign he draws for us is as flop as a plankrieg) the twinfreer types are billed to make their reupprearance as the knew kneck and knife knickknots on the deserted champ de bouteilles.
(f39⇒f10) (f39(f10) A most cursery reading into the Persic-Uraliens hostery shows us how (f39Fonnumag-ula Fonnumagogulaºf10) picked up that propper numen out of a colluction of prifixes(f39,ºf10) though to the permienting cannasure the Coucousien oafsprung of this sun of a kuk is as sattin as there's a tub in Tobolosk(f39).ºf10) Ostiak della Vogul Marina! But that I dannoy the fact of wanton to weste point I could paint you to that butter (f39(cheese it!)f10) if you had some wash. Mordvealive! (f39Oh Onºf10) me none onsens! Why the case is as inessive and impossive as kezom hands! Their interlocative is conprovocative just as every hazzy hates to having a hazbane in her (f39noze hozeºf10).
(f39⇒ºf10) Caseous may (f39bethink
hethinkºf10) himself a thought of a caviller but Burrus has the reachly roundered head that goes best with (f39thofthinking
thoftthinkingºf10) defensive fideism. He has the lac of wisdom under every dent in his lofter, while the other follow's onni vesy milky (f39indeedmymy
indeedmumºf10). Laughing over the linnuts and weeping off the uniun. He hisn't the hey og he lisn't the lug,
poohoo(f39.!ºf10) And each night sim misses mand he winks he had the semagen. It was aptly and corrigidly stated
(and(f39,ºf10) it is royally needless for one
(f39—ºf10) ex ungue Leonem (f39—ºf10) to say
by whom) that his seeingscraft was that clarety as were the wholeborough of (f39Saintºf10) Poutresbourg to be averlaunched over him pitchbatch he could still make out with his augstritch the green moat in Ireland's Eye. Let me
sell you the fulltroth of Burrus when he wore a younker. Here it is, and (f39chorming churmingºf10) too, in six by sevens! A cleanly line, by the gods! A king off duty and
a jaw for ever! (f39What brunoesque pr poportiums, me Ercles!ºf10) And what a cheery ripe outlook, good help me Deus v Deus! If I were to speak
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my (f39ohole wholeºf10) mouthful to (f39arinam
arimanºf10) about it you should call me the (f39Ormuzd
ormuzdºf10) aliment in your midst of faime. Eat ye up, heat ye up! sings the somun in the salm. Butyrum et mel comedet ut sciat reprobare malum et eligere bonum. This, of course, also explains why we were taught to play in the childhood: Der Haensli ist ein
(f39Butterbrot, Butterbrot,º fein Butterbrot,ºf10) mein Butterbrot! Und Koebi iss dein Schtinkenkot! Ja! Ja!
Ja!
This(f39,ºf10) in fact, just to show you, is Caseous, the brutherscutch or puir tyron: a hole or two, the
(f39highstinks highstinkºf10) aforefelt and anygo prigging wurms. Cheesugh! you complain. And Hi Hi High must say you are not Hoa Hoa Hoally in the wrong!
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Thus we cannot escape our likes and mislikes, exiles or ambusheers, beggar and neighbour(f39,f10) and (f39soºf10) — this is where the dimeshow advertisers advance the temporal relief plea — let us be tolerant of antipathies. Nex quovis burro num fit mercaseus? I am not hereby giving my final endorsement to the learned ignorants of the Cusanus philosophism in which old Nicholas pegs it down that the smarter the spin of the top the sounder the span of the buttom(f39.f10) ((f39what Whatºf10) the worthy old auberginiste ought to have meant was: the more stolidly immobile in space appears to me the bottom which is presented to use (f39in time in timeºf10) by the top primomobilisk &c.)(f39.ºf10) And I shall be misunderstood if understood to give an unconditional (f39sinequam sinequamnuncf10) to the heroicised furibouts of the Nolanus theory, or, at any rate, of that substrate of apart from hissheory where the (f39Theophil Theophileºf10) swoors (f39by his Father Familiaritas and his Mother Contumelia and by the soul in his suit and the animus in his soul and the mind in his animus and the good in his mindºf10) that on principial he was the (f39pointing start pointingstartºf10) of his odiose by comparison and that whiles eggs will fall cheapened all over the walled the Bure will be dear on the Brie.
Now, while I am not out now to be taken up as unintentionally recommending the Silkebjorg tyrondynamon machine for the more (f39economical enocomicalºf10) helixtrolysis
of these amboadipates until I can find space to look into it myself a little more closely first(f39,ºf10) I shall go on with my decisions after having shown to you in good time how both products of our social stomach (the excellent
Dr Burroman, I noticed by the way from his emended food theory, has been carefully digesting the very wholesome criticism
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I helped him to in my princeps edition which is all so munch to the cud) are mutuearly polarised(f39,f10) the (f39incompatabilily
incompletudeºf10) of any delusional acting as ambivalent to the fixation of his pivotism. Positing, as above, too (f39males
maleºf10) pooles, the one the pictor of the other and the omber the (f39Skotia
σκοτιαºf10) of the one, and looking wantingly around our undistributed middle between
males(f39,ºf10) we feel we must waistfully woent a female to focus and on this stage there pleasantly appears the cowrymaid
M(f39.º (f10) whom we shall often meet
below(f39)ºf10) who introduces herself upon us at some precise hour which we shall again agree to call absolute zero or the babbling pumpt of platinism. And so like that former son of a kish who went up and out to found his
farmer's ashes we come down home gently on our own turnedabout asses to meet Margareen.
We now romp through a period of pure lyricism of shamebred music (technologically, let me say, the appetising entry of this subject on a fool chest of vialds is plumply pudding the carp before doevre hors) evidenced by such words in distress as I cream for (f39thee,
thee,ºf10) (f39Sweet sweetºf10)
Margareen(f39!f10) (f39,ºf10) and
the more hopeful O Margareena! O Margareena! Still in the bowl is left a lump of gold! (Correspondents, by the way, will keep on asking me what is the correct
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garnish to serve drisheens with. Tansy (f39Sauce sauceºf10).
Enough(f39.f10))(f39.ºf10) The pawnbreaking
pathos of the first of these shoddy pieces reveals it as a Caseous effort. Burrus's bit is often used for a toast. Criniculture can tell us very precisely indeed how and why this particular streak of yellow silver first appeared on (not in) the (f39bowel
bowlºf10), that is to see, the human head, bald, black, bronze, brown, brindled, betteraved or
blanchemanged(f39,ºf10) where it might be usefully compared with an earwig on a fullbottom. I am offering this to Signorina Cuticura and I intend to take it up and bring it under the nosetice of Herr Harlene by way of diverting his
attentions. Of course(f39,ºf10) the unskilled singer continues to pervert our wiser ears by subordinating the space-element, that is to sing, the aria, to the time-factor, which ought to be killed, ill tempor. I should
advise any unborn singer who may still be among my heeders to forget her temporal diaphragm at home
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(the best thing that could happen to it!) and attack the roulade with a swift colpo di glottide to the lug (though Maace I will insist was reclined from overdoing this, his recovery often being slow) and then(f39,f10) O! on
the third dead beat(f39,ºf10) O! to cluse her eyes and
(f39aiopen awpenºf10) her oath and see what spice I may send her.
(f39⇒ºf10) How? Cease thee, cantatrickee! I fain would be solo. Arouse thee, my valour! And save for e'er my true Bdur!
I shall have a word to say in a few yards about the acoustic and orchidectural management of the tonehall but, as ours is a vivarious where one plant's breaf is a lunger planner's byscent and you may not care for
(f39theºf10) argon, it will be very convenient for me for the emolument to pursue Burrus and Caseous for a rung or two up their isocelating biangle. Every admirer
(f39of my “blank manner”ºf10) has seen (f39with eyes
wateredºf10) my goulache of Marge (she is so like the sister, you don't know, and they both dress A L I K E !) which I titled The Very Picture of a Needlesswoman
(f39andf10) which in the presence ornates our national cruetstand. This genre of portraiture of changes of mind in order to be truly torse should evoke the bush soul of
(f39theºf10) females so I am leaving it to the experienced victim to complete the general suggestion by the mental addition of a wallopy bound or, should the zulugical zealot prefer it, a congorool teal. The hatboxes which
(f39composed composeºf10) Rhomba, (f39lady
Ladyºf10) Trabezond (Marge in her excelsis), also (f39comprised
compriseºf10) the climactogram up which B and C may fondly be imagined ascending and are suggestive of gentlemen's spring modes, these modes carrying us back to the superimposed claylayers of eocene and pleastoseen formation and the gradual morphological changes in our body
politic which Professor Ebahi-Ahuri of Philadespoinis (Ill) — whose bluebutterbust I have just given his coupe de grass to — neatly names a boîte à surprises. The boxes, if I may break the subject gently, are worth about fourpence pourbox but I am inventing a
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more patent process, foolproof and pryperfect (I should like to ask that Shedlock Homes person who is out for removing the roofs of our criminal classics by what deductio ad domunum he hopes de tacto to detect anything unless he happens of himself, movibile tectu, to have a slade
off)(f39,ºf10) after which they can be reduced to a fragment of their
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true crust by even the youngest of Margees(f39,ºf10) if she will take plase to be seated and smile if I please.
Now there can be no question about it either that I(f39,ºf10) having done as much, have quite got the size of that demilitery young female (we will continue to call her Marge) whose types may be met with in any public garden, wearing a very “dressy” affair, known as an “ethel”(f39,ºf10) of instep length and with a real fur, reduced to 3/9, and muffin cap (f39to tonef10) (they are “angelskin” this fall) (f39to tonef10), ostentatiously hemming apologetically over the shirtness of some “sweet” garment, when she is not sitting on all the free benches avidously reading about “it” but ovidently on the (f39look out lookoutºf10) for “him” or so “thrilled” about the best dressed dolly pram and beautiful elbow competition or at the movies swallowing sobs and blowing bixed mixcuits over (f39“childe” “Childe”ºf10) chaplain's “latest” or on the verge of the gutter with some bobbedhair brieffrocked babyma's toddler (the Smythe-Smythes now keep TWO domestics and aspire to THREE male ones, (f39a shover, a butlegger and a sectary a “shover”, a “butlegger” and a “sectary”ºf10)) held hostage at armslength, teaching His Infant Majesty how to make waters worse.
(f39(f10) I am closely watching Master Pules, as I have regions to suspect from my post that her “little man” is a secondary schoolteacher under the boards of education, a voted disciple of Infantulus(f39,ºf10) who is being utilised thus publicly by the seducente infanta to conceal her own more mascular personality by flaunting frivolish finery over men's inside clothes(f39,.f10) (f39for Forºf10) the femininny of that totamulier will always lack the musculink of a verumvirum. My solotions for the proper parturience of matres and the education of micturious mites must stand over from the moment till I tackle this tickler hussy for occupying my uttentions.(f39)ºf10)
Margareena she's very fond of Burrus but(f39, (f10) alick and
alack!(f39)ºf10) (f39She
sheºf10) velly fond of chee. (The important influence exercised on everything by this eastasian import has not been till now fully
flavoured(f39,ºf10) though we can comfortably taste it in this case. I shall come back for a little more say farther on.) A cleopatrician in her own
right(f39,ºf10) she at once complicates the position(f39,f10) while Burrus and Caseous are contending
for her misstery(f39,ºf10) by implicating herself
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with an elusive Antonius, a wop who would appear to hug a personal interest in refined chees of all chades at the same time as he wags an antomine art of being rude like the boor. This Antonius-Burrus-Caseous grouptriad may be said to equate the qualis equivalent with the older socalled talis on
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talis one just as (f39quantly quaintlyºf10) as in the hyperchemical economantarchy the tantum ergons irruminate the quantum urge so that eggs is to whey as whay
is to zeed like your golfchild's abe boob caddy. (f39(And, taking off sourstuffsº and alkalike matters, I hope we can kill time to reach the salt because
there's some forceglass neutric assets bittering in the soldpewter for you to plump your pottage in.)ºf10) And this is why any simple
(f39strawbelliedºf10) philadolphus of a fool you like to dress, an athemisthued
lowtownian(f39, exlegged phatrisight exleggest phratrisightºf10), may be awfully green to one side of him and fruitfully blue on the
other(f39,ºf10) which will not screen him however from appealing to my gropesarching eyes, through the strongholes of my acropoll, as a boosted blasted bleating blatant bloaten blasphorus blesphorous idiot who
(f39kennot kennatºf10) tail a bomb from a painapple when he steals one and
(f39wannot wonnotºf10) psing his (f39psalmen
psalmonºf10) with the cong (f39in our forºf10)
gregational (f39pompoms purposesºf10) with the canting
crew(f39.!ºf10)
No! Topsman(f39,ºf10) to your Tarpeia! This thing, (f39Mister
Minsterºf10) Abby, is nefand. (f39(And, taking off soutstuffs and alkalike matters, I hope we can kill time to reach
the salt because there's some forceglass neutric assets bittering in the soldpewter for you to plump your pottage in).f10) The thundering legion has stormed Olymp that it end. Twelve tabular times till now
have I edicted it. Merus Genius to Careous Caseous! (f39Moriture, Moriture,ºf10) te salutat! My phemous
(f39themis themis'ºf10) race is run, so let Demoncracy take the highmost! (Abraham Tripier. Those old diligences are quite out of date. Read next
answer(f39.f10))(f39.ºf10) I'll
(f39nowºf10) beat you so lon. (Bigtempered. Why not take direct
action(f39.?ºf10) See previous
reply(f39.f10))(f39.ºf10) My unchanging
Word is sacred. The (f39word Wordºf10) is my Wife, to
(f39exponse exspouseºf10) and expound, to vend and to velnerate, and may the curlews crown our nuptias! Till Breath us depart! Wamen. Beware would you change with my
years(f39.!ºf10) Be as young as your grandmother! The ring man in the rong shop but the rite words by the rote order! Ubi lingua
(f39nuncupassit, nuncupassit,ºf10) ibi fas! Adversus hostem semper sac! She that will not feel my fulmoon let her peel to thee as the hoyden and the
impudent! That mon that hoth no moses in his sole nor is not awed by conquists
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of word's law, who never with humself was fed and leaves his soil to lave his head, when his hope's in his highlows from whisking his woe, if he came to my preach, a proud pursebroken ranger, when the heavens were welling the spite of their spout, to beg for a bite in our bark Noisdanger, would meself and
(f39Mac Jaffef10) Jeffet, four-in-hand, foot him out? — ay! — were he my own breastbrother, my doubled
(f39withd widthºf10) love and my singlebiassed hate, were we bread by the same fire and signed with the same salt, had we tapped from the same master and robbed
(f39ofºf10) the same till, were we tucked in the one bed and bit by the one flea, homogallant and hemycapnoise, bum and dingo, jack by churl, though it broke my heart to pray it, still I'd fear I'd hate to
(f39say! say …!ºf10)
(f39⇓f10) (f3912. C 12.ºf10) Sacer esto?
(f39Answer: answer:ºf10) Semus sumus!