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.º º º ºº ºº º ºº I feel in symbathos for my ever devoted friend and halfaloafonwashedºº Gnaccus Gnoccovitch. Darling gemº! Darling smallfox!º Horoseshoew!º I could love that man like my own ambo for being so baileycliaver though he's a nawful curillassº 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,º where he'll make Number 106 and be near Inaccessible.º (The meeting of mahoganies, be the waves, rementiousº 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, —º 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 Inexhaustibleº when we refloat upon all the butternatº, 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 Rubeusº where the deodarty is pinctured for us in a pure stand, which we do not doubt haº has a habitat of doing, but without those selfsownseedlingsº 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)º Vux Populusº, as we say in hickoryhockeryº and I wish we had some more glasses of arbor vitae. Why roatº by the roadside or awn over alum pot? Alderman Whitebeaverº is dakyo.ºº He ought to go away for a change of ideas andº 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.ººº You will say it is most unenglish and I shall hope to hear that you will not be wrong about it. But I furtherº, feeling a bit husky in my truths.º

Will you please come over and let us mooremoore murgessly to each's other down below our vices. Iº amº underheerd by old billfaust. Wilshº is full of curks. Theº coolskittle is philip deblinite. Mrº Wistº is thereover beyeind the wantnot. Wilshº and wist are as thick of thins udder as faust on the deblinite. Sgunoshooto estas preter la tapizo malgranda. Lilegasº al si en sia chambro. Kelkefoje funcktas, kelkefoje srumpas Shultrojº. Houdian Kielº vi fartas, mia nigra sinjoro? And from the poignt of fun where I am crying to arrive you at they are on allforeº as foibleminded as you can feel they are fablebodied.

My heeders will recoil with a greatº 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 sotisfictionº how his abject all through (the quickquid of Professor Ciondolone'sº too frequently hypothecated Bettlermensch) is nothing so much more than a mere cashdimeº however genteelº he may want ours, if we please (I am speaking to us in the second person),ºº for to this graded intellecktualsº 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 asº 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 choiceº, full of natural greace, the mildest of milkstoffs yet unbeaten as a risicide and, of course, obsoletely unadulterousº 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 arrivalisteº case and, let me say it at once, as zealous over him as is passably he.º The seemsame home and histry seeks and hidepence which we used to be reading for our prepurgatory,hot, Schott?º till Duddy shut the shopper op and Mutti,poor Mutti!º brought us our poor suppy,º (ah who! eh how!)º 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 and if I don't make away with you I'm beyond Caesar outnulused.º
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The older sisars (Tyrants,º regicide is too good for you!) becomeº unbeurrable from age, (the compositor of the ^|shfarce of dustiny^sh| however makes a thunpledrumº mistake by letting off this ^|shpienofarte^sh| effect as his furst act as that is where the juke comes in) havingº been sort-of-nineknived and chewly removed (^|shthis soldier - author - batmanº 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^sh|) theº twinfreer types are billed to make their reupprearanceº as the knew ^|shkneck and knife^sh| knickknots on the deserted champ de bouteilles. (Aº most cursery reading into the Persic-Uraliens hostery shows us how Fonnumag-ulaº picked up that propper numen out of a colluction of prifixesº though to the permienting cannasure the Coucousien oafsprung of this sun of a kuk is as sattin as there's a tub in Tobolosk)º Ostiak della Vogul Marina! But that I dannoy the fact of wanton to weste point I could paint you to that butter (cheese it!) ifº you had some wash. Mordvealive!º Ohº 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 nozeº.º Caseous may bethinkº himself a thought of a caviller but Burrus has the reachly roundered head that goes best with thofthinkingº defensive fideism.º He has the lac of wisdom under every dent in his lofter, while the other follow's onni vesy milky indeedmymyº. Laughing over the linnuts and weeping off the uniun. He hisn't the hey og he lisn't the lug, poohoo.º And each night sim misses mand he winks he had the semagen. It was aptly and corrigidly stated (and,º it is royally needless for oneº ex ungue Leonemº to say by whom) that his seeingscraft was that clarety as were the wholeborough ofº Poutresbourg to be averlaunched over him pitchbatch he could still make out with his augstritchº the green moat in Ireland's Eye. Let me sell you the fulltroth of Burrus when he wore a younker. Here it is, and chormingº too, in six by sevens! A cleanly line, by the gods! A kingº off duty and a jaw for ever!º And what a cheery ripe outlook, good help me Deus v Deus!º If I were to speak
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my oholeº mouthful to arinamº about it you should call me the Ormuzdº aliment in your midst of faime. Eat ye up, heat ye up! sings the somun in the salm. Butyrum et mel comedet ut sciat reprobareº malum et eligere bonum. Thisº, of course, also explains why we were taught to play in the childhood: Der Haensli ist ein Butterbrot,ºº mein Butterbrot! Und Koebi iss dein Schtinkenkot! Ja! Ja! Ja!

Thisº in fact, just to show you, is Caseous, the brutherscutch or puir tyron: a hole or two, the highstinksº aforefelt and anygoº prigging wurms. Cheesugh! you complain. And Hi Hi High must say you are not Hoa Hoa Hoally in the wrong!

Thus we cannot escape our likes and mislikes, exiles or ambusheers, beggar and neighbour andº — this is where the dimeshow advertisers advance the temporal relief plea — let us be tolerant of antipathies. Nex quovis burro num fitº mercaseus?º 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 (whatº the worthy old auberginiste ought to have meant was: the more stolidly immobileº in space appears to me the bottom which is presented to use in timeº by the top primomobilisk &c.).º And I shall be misunderstood if understood to give an unconditional sinequam toº the heroicised furibouts of the Nolanus theory, or, at any rate, of that substrateº of apart from hissheory where the Theophilº swoorsº that on principial he was the pointing startº 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 Silkebjorgº tyrondynamon machineº for the more economicalº helixtrolysis of these amboadipates until I can find space to look into it myself a little more closely firstº 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,º has been carefully digesting the very wholesome criticism
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I helped him to in my ^|shprinceps edition^sh| which is all so munch to the cud) are mutuearly polarised the incompatabililyº of any delusional acting as ambivalent to the fixation of his pivotism. Positing, as above, tooº malesº pooles, the one the pictor of the other and the omber the Skotiaº of the one, and looking wantingly around our undistributed middle between malesº we feel we must waistfully woent a female to focus and on this stage there pleasantly appears the cowrymaid M.ºwhom we shall often meet belowº who introduces herself upon us at some precise hour which we shall again agree to call absolute zero or the babbling pumptº of platinism. And so like that former son of a kishº who went up and out to found his farmer's ashesº we come down home gently on our own turnedaboutº asses to meet Margareen.

We now romp through a period of pure lyricism of shamebred music (technologically, let me say, the appetising ^|shentry of this subject^sh| on a fool ^|shchest of vialds^sh| is plumply pudding the carp before doevre hors) evidenced by such words in distress as I cream for thee,º Sweetº Margareen,º and the more hopeful O Margareena! O Margareena!º Stillº in the bowl is left a lump of gold! (Correspondents, by the way, will keep on asking me what is the correct garnish to serve ^|shdrisheens with. Tansy Sauceº.^sh| Enough).º 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 bowelº, that is to see, the human head, bald, black, bronze, brown, brindled, betteraved or blanchemangedº 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 courseº the unskilled singer continues to pervert ourº 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 temporalº 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, O! on the third dead beat,º O! to cluse her eyes and aiopenº her oath and see what spice I may sendº her.º 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 forº 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 admirerº has seenº 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 Needlesswomanº whichº in the presence ornates our national cruetstand. Thisº genre of portraiture of changes of mind in order to be truly torse should evoke the bush soul ofº 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.º The hatboxes which composedº Rhomba, ladyº Trabezond (Marge in her excelsis),º also comprisedº the climactogram up which B and C may fondlyº 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 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 ^|sha slade off^sh|)º after which they can be reduced to a fragment of their
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true crust by even the youngest of Margeesº if she will take plase to be seated and smile if I please.

Now there can be no question about it either that Iº 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, wearingº a very “dressy” affair,º known as an “ethel”º of instep length and with a real fur, reduced to 3/9, and muffin cap to tone (they are “angelskin” this fall),º ostentatiously hemming apologetically over the shirtness of some “sweet”º garment, whenº she is not sitting on all the free benches avidously reading about “it” but ovidently on the look outº 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 “childe”º chaplain's “latest” or on the verge of the gutter with some bobbedhair brieffrocked babyma's toddler (the Smythe-Smythes now keep TWOº domestics and aspire to THREEº male ones, a shover, a butlegger and a sectaryº) held hostage at armslength, teaching His Infant Majesty how to make waters worse.

(Iº am closely watching Master Pules, as I have regions to suspect from my post that her “little man”º is a secondary schoolteacher under the boards of education, a voted disciple of Infantulusº 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, forº 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.)º

Margareena she's very fond of Burrus but,alick and alack!º Sheº velly fond of chee.º (The important influence exercised on everything by this eastasianº import has not been till now fully flavouredº though we can comfortably taste it in this case. I shall come back for a little more say farther on.)º A cleopatrician in her own rightº she at once complicates the position while Burrus and Caseous are contending for her missteryº 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 talis one just as quantlyº 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.º º And this is why any simpleº philadolphus of a fool you like to dress, an athemisthued lowtownian, exlegged phatrisightº, may be awfully green to one side of him and fruitfully blue on the otherº which will not screen him however from appealing to my gropesarching eyes, through the strongholes of my acropoll,º as a boosted blasted bleating blatant bloaten blasphorus blesphorous idiot who kennotº tail a bomb from a painapple when he steals one and wannotº psing his psalmenº with the cong in ourº gregational pompomsº with the canting crew.º

No! Topsmanº to your Tarpeia! This thing, Misterº Abby, is nefand. (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). The thundering legion has stormed Olymp that it end. Twelve tabular times till now have I edicted it. Merus Genius to Careous Caseous! Moriture,º te salutat! My phemous themisº race is run, so let Demoncracyº take the highmost!º (^|shAbraham Tripier^sh|. Those old ^|shdiligences^sh| are quite out of date. Read next answer).º I'llº beat you so lon. (^|shBigtempered^sh|. Why not ^|shtake direct action^sh|.º See previous reply).º My unchanging Word is sacred. The wordº is my Wife, toº exponseº and expound, to vend and to velnerate,º and may the curlews crown our nuptias! Till Breath us depart! Wamen. Beware would you change with my years.º Be as young as your grandmother! The ring man in the rong shop but the rite words by the rote order! Ubi lingua nuncupassit,º ibi fas! Adversus hostemº 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 Mac Jeffetº, four-in-hand,º foot him out? — ay! — were he my own breastbrother, my doubled withdº 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 robbedº 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 say!º

12.º Sacer esto?

Answer:º Semus sumus!