FINNEGANS WAKE

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Faber and Faber (London: 1939) II.2§2

First edition, first printing (details)

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RM7 Honourº commercio'sº energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody and ech with pal, this ernst of Allsap's aleº hallidayº of roaring month with its two lunar eclipses and its three saturnine settings.º Horn of Heatthen, highbrowed! Brook of Life, backfrishº! Amnios amnium, fluminiculum flaminulinorum! We seek the Blessed One,º the Harbourer-cum-Enheritance. Even Canaan the Hateful. Ever a-going, ever a-coming. Between a stare and a sough. Fossilisation, all branches.F19 Wherefore Petra sware unto Ulma: LM15 By the mortals' frost! Andº Ulma sware unto Petra: LM16 On my veiny life!

RM8 In theseº places sojournemus,º where Eblinn water, leased of carr and fen, leaving amont her shoals and salmen browsesº, whom inshore breezes woo with freshets, windeth to herº broads. A phantom city, phaked of philim pholk, bowed andº sould for a four of hundreds of manhood in their three and threescore fylkers for a price partitional ofº twenty sixº and six. LM17 By this |shriverside, onº oursh| |shsunnybank,º F20sh| how |shbuona the vista,sh| by |shSanta Rosa!sh| |shA field of May,sh| the very |shvale of Springsh|. |shOrchards here are lodged;ºsh| |shsainted lawrelssh| evremberried. Youº have a hoig |shview ashwald,ºsh| |sha glen of marronssh| and of |shthorns.ºsh| |shGleannaulinn,sh| |shArdeevin:ºsh| purty glint of plaising height. This |shNorman courtsh| at |shboundary of the ville,sh| yonº |shcreepered tower of a church of Ereland,sh| meet for true saints in worshipful assemblage,F21 with our |shking's housesh|
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of |shstone,sh| |shbelgrovedsh| of |shmulbrey,sh| the still that was mill and Kloster that was Yeomansland, the ghastcold tombshape of the quick foregone on, the loftleaved elm Lefanunian abovemansioned, each, every,º all is for the retrospectioner. Skole! Agus skole igen!F22 Sweetsome |shauburn,ºsh| cometh up as a selfreizing flower,º that fragolance of |shthe fraisey beds:sh| the |shphoenix,sh| his pyre, is still flaming away with |shtrueprattight spirit:sh| |shthe wren his nestsh| is niedelig as the |shturrises of the sabinesºsh| are televisible. Here are |shthe cottagesh| and |shthe bungalowsh| for the cobbeler and the brandnewburgher:F23 but |shIzolde, her chaplet gardens, LM18 an litlee plads af liefest pose,º arride the winnerfulº wonders off, the winnerful wonnerfulº wanders off,F25ºsh| with hedges of ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe, are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you pleathes,F24º for |shthe blithehaired daughter ofsh| |shAngoisse.ºsh| All out of |shtwo barreny old perishers, Tytonyhands and Vlossyhair, a kilolitre in metromyriams.sh| Presepeprosapia, the parent bole. Wone tabardº, wine |shtapsh| and warm |shtavernF26sh| and, by ribbon development, from contact bridge to lease lapse, only |shtwo millium two humbered and eighty thausig nineº humbered and sixtysh| radiolumin lines LM19 to the |shwustworts of aº Finntown's generous poet's office.sh| Distorted mirageº, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the
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boxomenessº of the bedeliasF27 makes hobbyhodgeº happy in his hole.F28 The store and charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne. Rivapool? Hod a brieck on it! But its piers eerie, itsº span spooky, its toll but a till, its parapets all peripateting.º D'Oblong's by his by. Which we all pass. Tonsº. In our snoo. Znore. Whileº we hickerwards the thickerº. Schein. Schoreº. Which assoars us from the murk of the mythelated in the barrabelowther, bedevere butlered table round, past Morningtop's necessity and Harington's invention, to the clarience of the childlight in the studiorium upsturts. Here we'll dwell on homiest powers, love at the latch with novices nig and nag. The chorus: the principals. For the rifocillation of their inclination to the manifestation of irritation: doldorboys and doll.F29 After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.