FINNEGANS WAKE

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Comparison of 1939 and 2010 texts II.2§3

Emendations by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

Key:  (f391939 text 2010 textf10)

RM9 Here (f39LM21lºf10) (the memories framed from walls are minding) till wranglers for wringwrowdy wready are, F F, (f39(f10) at gaze, respecting, fourteenth baronet, meet, altrettanth bancorot, chaff(f39),ºf10) and (f39LM21ºf10) ere commence commencement catalaunic when (f39Aetius Aetius'sºf10) check chokewill Attil's gambit(f39,f10) (that buxon (f39bruzeup breezeupºf10), give it a burl!)(f39,ºf10) lead us seek, O june of eves the jenniest, thou who (f39fleeest fleestºf10) (f39flicklesome ficklesomeºf10) the fond fervid frondeur to thickly thyself attach with thine (f39efteased selfteasedºf10) ensuer,F30 ondrawer of our unconscionable, flickerflapper fore our unterdrugged,F31
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lead us seek, lote us see, light us find, let us (f39missnot miss notºf10) Maidadate, Mimosa (f39multimimetica Multimimeticaºf10), the maymeaminning of maimoomeining! Elpis, thou fountain of the greeces, all shall speer theeward(f39,ºf10) F32 from kongen in his canteenhus to knivers hind the knoll. Ausonius Audacior and gael, gillie, gall.F33 Singalingalying. Storiella as she is syung. Whence(f39,ºf10) LM22 (f39plutonically pursuant on briefest glimpse from gladrags,ºf10) followeup with endspeaking nots for yestures(f39, plutonically pursuant on briefest glimpse from gladrags,ºf10) pretty Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas.

RM10 Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette, unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs time on the domisole, F34 with a blewy blow and a windigo. Where flash becomes word and silents selfloud. To (f39brace traceºf10) congeners, trebly bounden and asservaged twainly. Adamman,F35 Emhe, Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely ogs Weib. Uwayoei!F36 So mag this sybilette be our shibboleth that we may syllable her well(f39.!ºf10) LM23 Vetus may be occluded behind the mou in Veto but Nova will be nearing as their radient among the Nereids. A one of charmers, ay, Una Unica(f39,.ºf10) (f39charmers, Charmersºf10) who, under the branches of the elms, LM24 in shoes as yet
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unshent by stoniness, wend, went, will wend a way of honey (f39myrrh myrrhsºf10) and rambler roses(f39,f10) (f39mistmusk mistymusky,ºf10) while still the (f39maybe Maybeºf10) mantles the (f39meiblume, meiblumesºf10) (f39or foreºf10) ever her
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(f39if Ifºf10) (f39have hasºf10) faded from the fleur,F37 their arms enlocked(f39,f10) (ringrang, the chimes of (f39sex appealing sexappealingºf10) as (f39conchitas Conchitasºf10) with (f39sentas Sentasºf10) stray,F38 rung!), LM25 all thinking all of it, the It with an itch in it, the All every inch of it, the pleasure each will preen her for, the business each was bred to breed by.F39

RM11 Soon (f39jemmijohns jeminijohnsºf10) will cudgel about some a rhythmatick or other over Browne and Nolan's divisional tables whereas she, of (f39minions' nimiousºf10) novence charily being cupid(f39,f10) LM26 for mug's wumping, grooser's grubbiness, andt's avarice and grossopper's grandegaffe(f39,ºf10) with her tootpettypout of jemenfichue will sit and knit on solfa sofa.F40 Stew of the evening, booksyful stew. And a bodikin a boss in the Thimble Theatre. But all is her inbourne. Intend. From LM27 gramma's grammar she has it that if there is a third person, mascarine, phelinine or nuder, being spoken abad it moods (f39prosodes prosodeºf10) from a (f39firstºf10) person speaking to her second which is the direct object that has been spoken to, with and at. Take the dative with his oblativeF41 for, even if obsolete, it is always of interest, so spake gramma on the impetus of her imperative, only mind (f39your you'reºf10) genderous towards his reflexives such that I was to your LM28 grappa (Bott's trousend, hore a (f39man mannºf10) uff!) when him was me hedonF42 and mine, what the lewdy saying, his analectual pygmyhop.F43 (f39It's a wild'sº kitten, my dear, who can tell a wilkling from a warthog.º For youº may be as practical as is predicableº but you must have the proper sort of accident to meet that kind of a being with a difference.º F44f10) There is comfortism in the
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knowledge that often hate on first hearing comes of love by second sight. Have your little sintalks in the dunk of subjunctions, dual in duel and prude with pruriel, but even the aoriest chaparound whatever plaudered perfect anent prettydotes and (f39haec genua omnia haec genua omniaºf10) may perhaps chance to be about to be in the case to be becoming a pale peterwright in spite of all your tense accusatives whilstly you're wallflooredF45 like your gerandiums for the better half of a yearn or sob. (f39It's a wild's kitten, my dear, who can tell a wilkling from a warthog. For you may be as practical as is predicable but you must have the proper sort of accident to meet that kind of a being with a difference.F44fºf10) Flame at his fumbles but freeze on his fist.F46 Every letter is a
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godsend(f39,:ºf10) ardent Ares, brusque Boreas and glib Ganymede like zealous Zeus, the (f39O'Meghisthest O'Megisthestºf10) of all. To me or not to me(f39. Satis, satisºf10) thy quest on. LM29 Werbungsap! Jeg suis, vos wore a gentleman, thou arr, I am a quean. Is a game over? The game goes on. Cookcook! LM30 Search me. The beggar the maid the bigger the mauler. And the (f39greater grosserºf10) the patrarc the griefer the pinch. And that's what your doctor knows. O love it is the commonknounest thing how it pashes the plutous and the paupe.F47 Pop! And(f39,ºf10) egg she active or spoon she passive, all them fine clauses in (f39Lindley's Lindleyºf10) and Murrey's never braught the participle of a present to a desponent hortatrixy, vindicatively I say it,
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from her postconditional future. (f39F48fºf10) Lumpsome is who lumpsum pays. Quantity counts though accents falter. Yoking apart and oblique orations parsed to one side, LM31 a brat, (f39F48ºf10) alanna, can choose from so many, be he a (f39sollicitor's solicitor'sºf10) appendix, a pipe clerk or free functionist flyswatter, that perfect little cad, from the languors and weakness of (f39limber-limbed limberlimbedºf10) lassihood till the head, back and (f39heart aches heartachesºf10) of (f39waxedup waxed-upºf10) womanage(f39,ºf10) and heaps on heaps of other things too. Note the Respectable Irish Distressed Ladies and the Merry Mustard Frothblowers of Humphreystown Associations. Atac first, queckqueck quicks after. Beware how in that hist subtaile of schlangderF49 lies liaison (f39f10) to tease oreilles(f39.!ºf10) To vert embowed set proper penchant. But learn from that ancient tongue to be middle old modern to the minute. A spitter that can be depended on. Though Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell (f39lokker lookerºf10) through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain.F50 You may spin on (f39youthlit's Youthlit'sºf10) bike and multiplease your Mike and Nike with your kickshoes on the algebrars but, volve the LM32 virgil page and view, the O of woman is long when burly those two muters sequent her so from NebobF51 LM33 see you never stray who'll nimm you nice and nehm the day.

RM12 One hath just been areading, hath not one, ya, ya, in their memoiries of Hireling's puny wars, end so, und all, ga, ga, of The LM34 O'Brien,
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The O'Connor, The (f39Mac Loughlin MacLoughlinºf10) and The (f39Mac Namara MacNamara,ºf10) with summed their (f39appondage appendagef10), da, da, of Sire Jeallyous Seizer, that gamely torskmester,F52 with his duo of druidesses LM35 in (f39ready money readymoneyºf10) rompersF53 and the tryonforit of Oxthievious,
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Lapidous and Malthouse Anthemy. You may fail to see the lie of that layout, Suetonia,F54 but the reflections which recur to me are that so long as beauty life is body love (f39F55fºf10) and so bright as Mutua of your mirror (f39F55ºf10) holds her candle to your caudle(f39, (f10) lone lefthand likeless, sombring Autum of your Spring(f39,)ºf10) reck you not one spirt of anyseed whether (f39trigemelimen trigemellmenºf10) cuddle his coddle or nope. She'll confess it by her figure (f39and she'll though sheºf10) deny it to your face. If you're not ruined by that one she won't do you any whim. And then? What afters it? Gruff Gunne may blow, Gam Gonna flow, the gossans eye the jennings aye. LM36 From the butts of Heber and Heremon, (f39nolens nolensf10) (f39volens volensºf10), brood our pansies(f39,ºf10) brune in brume. There's a split in the infinitive from to have (f39to haveºf10) been to will be. As they warred in their big innings ease now we never shall know. Eat early earthapples. Coax Cobra to chatters. Hail, Heva, we hear! LM37 This is the glider that gladdened the girlF56 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 wizening.
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Hoots fromm, we're globing. Why hidest thou hinder thy husband his name? Leda, Lada, (f39aflutter-afraida aflutter afraidaºf10), so does your girdle grow! Willed without witting, whorled without aimed. Pappapassos, Mammamanet, warwhetswut and whowitswhy. (f39F58f F57ºf10) But it's tails for toughs and titties for totties and come buckets LM38 come bats till deeleet. (f39F57fºf10)

RM13 Dark ages clasp the daisy roots(f39,.º F58ºf10) Stop, if you are a sally of the allies, hot off (f39Minnowaurs minowaursºf10) and naval actiums, picked engagements and banks of rowers. Please stop if (f39you're you areºf10) a LM39 B.C. minding missy, please do. But should you prefer A.D. stepplease(f39, O dof10). And if you miss with a venture it serves you girly well glad. But, holy Janus, I was forgetting the Blitzenkopfs! Here, (f39Hengegst Hengeggstºf10) and Horsesauce, take your headsF59 out of (f39that yourºf10) taletub(f39.!ºf10) And leave your hinnyhennyhindyou(f39.!ºf10) It's haunted. The chamber. Of (f39errings erringºf10). Whoan, tug, trace, (f39stirrup starrupºf10)! LM40 It is distinctly understouttered that, sense (f39the tideºf10) you (f39threehandshighs threehandshighºf10) put your twofootlarge timepates in that dead wash of Lough Murph (f39it isºf10) and until such time pace one and the same(f39,ºf10) Messherrn the grinning statesmen, Brock and Leon, have shunted the grumbling coundedtouts, Starlin and Ser Artur Ghinis. LM41 Foamous homely brew(f39,.ºf10) (f39bebattled Bebattledºf10)
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by bottle, (f39gageure de guegerre gageure de gueguerreºf10).F60 Bull igien bear and then bearagain bulligan. Gringrin gringrin. Staffs varsus herds and bucks vursus barks.
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LM42 By old Grumbledum's walls. Bumps, bellows and bawls.F61 Opprimor's down, up up Opima! LM43 Rents and rates and tithes and taxes, wages, saves and spends. Heil, heptarched span of peace!F62 Live, league of lex, nex and the mores! Fas est dass and foe err you. LM44 (f39Impovernment Impovermentºf10) of the booble by the bauble for the bubble. So wrap up your worries in your woe (wumpumtum!) and shake down the shuffle for the throw. For there's one mere opeF63 for downfall LM45 ned. As Hanah Levy, shrewd shroplifter, and nievre anore(f39,ºf10) skidoos with her spoileds.F64 To add gay touches. For hugh and guy and goy and jew. To dimpled and pimpled and simpled and wimpled. A peak in a poke and a pig in a pew.F65 She wins them by wons, LM46 a haul hectoendecate, for mangay mumbo jumbjubes tak mutts and jeffs muchas bracelonettes gracies barcelonas.F66 O (f39what a loovely whataloovelyºf10) freespeech 'twas (tep) F67 to gar howalively hintergrunting(f39.!ºf10) Tip. Like lilt of larks to burdened crocodile(f39,f10) F68 or (f39Hazel and Sallyºf10) skittering (f39andºf10) laubhing at (f39that theºf10) wheeze of (f39thatºf10) old windbag, (f39Blusterboss Blusterbossºf10), blowharding about all he didn't do. Hell o' your troop! With is the winker for the muckwits of willesly and nith is the nod for the umproar napollyon and (f39hitheris hither isºf10) poorblond piebold hoerse. Huirse. With its tricuspidal hauberkhelm
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coverchaf emblem on. LM47 For the man that broke the ranks on Monte Sinjon. The allriddle of it? That that is allruddy with us(f39,ºf10) ahead of schedule(f39,ºf10) which already is (f39plan accomplished, amphiaccomplished,ºf10) from and syne(f39:.ºf10) LM48 Daft Dathy of the Five Positions (the (f39death ray deathrayºf10) stop him!) is still, as reproaches Paulus, on the Madderhorn and, entre chats and hobnobs, (f39F69fºf10) daring Dunderhead to shiver his timbers(f39. F69ºf10) (f39andf10) Hannibal mac Hamiltan (f39is chasing Kate O'Carthydge around the Capuawalls. Hibrahimºf10) the (f39Hegerite Hegiriteºf10) F70 (more livepower elbow him!) (f39isºf10) (f39ministerbuilding up minsterbuildingf10), (f39as soºf10) repreaches Timothy, (f39upºf10) in Saint Barmabrac's.F71 Number (f39Thirty two West Eleventh thirtytwo west eleventhºf10) streak looks on to that (f39datetree doloriferous selfregnantºf10) (may all in the tocoming of the sempereternal speel spry
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with it!) (f39datetree LM49l doloriferousf10) which more and (f39over everºf10) leafeth earlier than (f39LM49ºf10) every growth and, elfshot, (f39wonderingºf10) headawag, with frayed nerves (f39wonderingºf10) till they feeled sore(f39,ºf10) like any woman that has been born at all events to the purdah (f39and,ºf10) for the howmanyeth and howmovingth time at what the demons in that jackhouse that jerry built for Massa and Missus and hijo de puta, LM50 the sparksown fermament of the starryk fieldgosongingon where blows a nemone at each blink of windstill(f39,ºf10) F73 they were sliding along and sleeting aloof and scouting around and shooting about. Allwhichwhile or whereaballoons for good vaunty years Dagobert is in Clane's clean hometown prepping up his prepueratory and learning how to put a broad face bronzily out through a LM51 broken breached meataerial
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from Bryan Awlining(f39.,ºf10) Erin's hircohaired culoteer.F74