FINNEGANS WAKE
Proofs
Page proofs, September 1938-January 1939, II.2§9 draft level 13
MS Tulsa T 304, U 305-308 Draft details
RM38 lm118 Thanks eversore much, Pointcarried! I can't say if it's the weight you strike me to the quick or that red mass I was looking at but at the present momentum, potential as I am, I'm seeing raying bogeys rings round me. Honours to you and may you be commended for your exhibitiveness! I'd love to take you for a
bugaboo ride and play funfer all if you'd only sit and be the ballasted bottle in the porker barrel. You well deserve a rolypoly as long as from here to tomorrow. And to heel with them drift bobs and bottom trailers! By Saxon Chromaticus, you done that lovely for me! Didn't he now, Nubilina? Tiny Mite, shie studiert whas?f207 With her listening-in coiffure, her
dream of Endsland's daylast and the glorifires of being presainted maid to majesty. And less is the pity. For she isn't the lollypops she easily might be if she had for a sample Virginia's air of achievement. That might keep her from throwing delph.f208 lm119 As I was saying, while retorting thanks, you make me a reborn of the
cards. We're offals boys ambows.f209 And if my bag was big enough I'd send you a toxis. lm120 For I've flicked up all the crambs as they crumbled from your table um, singing glory allaloserem, cog it out, here goes a sum. So
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read we in must book. It tells. He prophets most who I bilks the best.f210
RM39 And that salubrated sickenagiaour of yaours have teaspilled all my hazeydency. Forge ahead, Sunny Sim! Sheepshopp. Bleating Goad, it is the least of things, Eyeinstye! Imagine it, my deep dartry dullard! It is hours giving, not more. I'm only out for celebridging over the guilt of the gap in your hiscitendency. You are a hundred thousand times welcome, old
wortsampler, hellbeit you're just about as culpable as my woolfell merger would be. In effect lm121 I could engage in an energument over you till you were republicly royally toobally prussic blue in the shirt after.f211 Trionfante di bestia! And if you're not your bloater's kipper may I never curse again on that pint I took
of Jamesons. Old Keane now, you're rod, hook and sinker, old jubalee |13Keane. Keane!13| Biddy's hair. Biddy's hair, mine lubber. Where is that Quin but he
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sknows it knot but what you that are my popular endphthisisis were born with a solver arm up your sleep? lm122 Thou in shanty! Thou in scanty shanty!! Thou in slanty scanty shanty!!! Bide in your |13hush.
hush!13| Bide in your hush, |13do. do!13| The law does not aloud you to shout. I plant my penstock in your postern, chinarpot. Ave.
And let it be to all remembrance. Vale. Ovocation of maiding waters.f212 For auld lang salvey steyne. I defend you to champ my scullion's praises. To book alone belongs the lobe. Foremaster's meedf213 will mark tomorrow when we are making pilscrummage to whaboggeryin with
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staff, scarf and blessed wallet and our aureoles round our neckkandcropfs where as and when Heavysciugardaddy, parent who offers sweetmeats, will gift uns his Noblett's surprize. lm123 With this laudable purpose in loudability let us be singulfied. Betwixt me and thee hung cong. Item, mizpah ends.
RM40 But while the dial are they doodling dawdling over the mugs and the grubs? Oikey, Impostolopulos?f214 Steady steady steady steady steady studiavimus. Many many many many many manducabimus.f215 We've had our day at triv and quad and writ our bits as intermidgets. Art, literature, politics, economy, chemistry, humanity, &c.
lm124 Duty, the Daughter of Discipline,
lm125 The Great Fire at the South City Markets,
lm126 Belief in Giants and the Banshee,
lm127 A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place,
lm128 Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?
lm129 A Successful Career in the Civil Service,f216
lm130 The Voice of Nature in the Forest,f217
lm131 Your Favourite Hero or Heroine,
lm132 On the Benefits of Recreation,f218
lm133 If Standing Stones Could Speak,
lm134 Devotion to the Feast of the Indulgence of Portiuncula,
lm135 The Dublin Metropolitan Police Sports at Ballsbridge,
lm136 Describe in Homely Anglian Monosyllables the Wreck of the Hesperus,f219
lm137 What Morals (if Any) can be drawn from Diarmuid and Grania? f220
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lm138 Do you approve of our Existing Parliamentary System?
lm139 The Uses and Abuses of Insects,
lm140 A
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Visit to Guinness's Brewery,
lm141 Clubs,
lm142 Advantages of the Penny Post,
lm143 When is a Pun not a Pun?
lm144 Is the Co-Education of Animus and Anima Wholly Desirable?f221
lm145 What Happened at Clontarf?
lm146 Since our Brother Jonathan Signed the Pledge or
lm147 The Meditations of Two Young Spinsters,f222
lm148 Why we all Love our Little Lord Mayor,
lm149 Hengler's Circus Entertainment,
lm150 On Thrift,f223
lm151 The Kettle-Griffith-Moynihan Scheme for a New Electricity Supply,
lm152 Travelling in the Olden Times,f224
lm153 American Lake Poetry,
lm154 The Strangest Dream that was Ever Halfdreamt, f225
lm155 Circumspection,
lm156 Our Allies the Hills,
lm157 Are Parnellites Just towards Henry Tudor?
lm158 Tell a Friend in a Chatty Letter the Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant,f226
lm159 Santa Claus,
lm160 The Shame of Slumdom,
lm161 The Roman Pontiffs and the Orthodox Churches,f227
lm162 The Thirty Hour Week,
lm163 Compare the Fistic Styles of Jimmy Wilde and Jack Sharkey,
lm164 How to Understand the Deaf,
lm165 Should Ladies learn Music or Mathematics?
lm166 Glory be to Saint Patrick!
lm167 What is to be found in a Dustheap,
lm168 The Value of Circumstantial Evidence,
lm169 Should Spelling?
lm170 Outcasts in India,
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lm171 Collecting Pewter,
lm172 Eu,f228
lm173 Proper and Regular Diet Necessity For,f229
lm174 If You Do It Do It Now,
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lm175 Delays are Dangerous.
RM41 Vitavite! Gobble Anne: tea's set, see's eneugh! Mox soonly will be in a split second per the chancellory of his exticker.
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lm177 Do
lm178 Tri
lm179 Car
lm180 Cushf230
lm181 Shay
lm182 Shockt
lm183 Ockt
lm184 Ni
lm185 Gegf231
RM42 lm186 Their feed begins.
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NIGHTLETTER
With our best youlldied greedings to Pep and Memmy and
the old folkers below and beyant, wishing them all very
merry Incarnations in this land of the livvey and plenty
of preprosperousness through all their coming new yonks
from
jake, jack and little sousoucie
(the babes that mean too)