FINNEGANS WAKE
— MEN! Juan responded fullchantedly to her sororal sonority, |shimitating himself capitallysh|,º with |shhis bubbleblown in his patapetsh| and his chalished drink now well in hand. (A spilt, see, for a split, see see!) Ever gloriously kind! And I truly am eucherised to yous. Also sacré père and maîtreº d'autel. Well, ladies upon gentlermen and toastmaster general,º let usº brindising brandisong, woo and win womenlong,º with health to rich vineyards ofº Erin go dryº! Amingst the living waters of, the living in giving waters of. Tight! Loose! A stiff one for Staffetta mullified with creams of hormonyº, the coupe that's chill for jackless jill and a filiform dhouche on Doris!º Esterelles, be not on your weeping what though Shaunathaun is in his fail! To stir up love's young fizz I tilt with this bridle's cupº champagne, dimming douce from her peepair of hideseeks,º tightsqueezed on my snowybreasted,º and while my pearlies in their sparkling wiseheightº are nippling her bubblets I swear (and let you swear!) by the bumper roundº of my poor old snaggletooth's solidbowel I ne'er will prove I'm untrue to your liking (theare!) so long as my hole looks. Down.
So gullaby, me poor Isley! But I'm not for forgetting me innerman monophone for I'm leaving my darling proxy behind for your consolering, lost Dave the Dancekerl, a
squamous runaway and a dear old man pal of mine too. He will arrive incessantly in the fraction of a crust.º
|shCouldº he quit doubling and stop trippling,º he would be the unicorn of his
kind.sh| He's the mightiest penumbrella I ever flourished on behond the shadow of a post!
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Be sure and link him, me O treasauro, as often as you learn,º provided there's nothing between you but a plain deal table. Onlyº don't encourage him to cry lessontimes over Leperstown. But soft! Can't be? Do mailstanes mumble? Lumtum
lumtum! Now! |shThe froubadour! I fremble!sh| Talk of wolf in a stomach,º by all that's verminous! Eccolo
me!º |shThe return of th'athlate!sh|
|shWho can secede to his success!sh| Isn't Jaunstown, Ousterrike,
the small place after all? I knew I smelt the garlic leek! Why, bless me swits, here he its, darling Daveº, like the catoninelives just in time
as if he fell out of space, all draped in mufti, coming home to mourn mountains from his old continence.º
Andº not on one foot either or on two feet aether but on quinquisecular cycles after his French evolution and a blindfold passage by the 4.32 withº the pork's pate in his
suicide paw and the gulls laughing lime on his natural skunk, blushing like Pat's
pig,º begob!º He's not too timtom well ashamed to carry out onaglibtograbakelly in his showman's sinister
the testymonicals he gave his twenty annis forº, showing the three white feathers, as a home cured emigrant in Paddyouare far below on our sealevel. Bearer may leave the church, signed, Figura Porca, Lictor Magnaffica. He's the
sneaking likeness of us, faith, me altar's ego in miniature and every Auxonian aimer's ace as nasal a Romeo as I am, for ever cracking quips on himself, that merry, the jeenjakes, he'd soon arise
mother's roses mid bedewing tears under those wild wet lashes onto anny living girl's laftercheeks. That's his little veiniality. And his impeppeppediment.º He has novel ideas, I
know,º and he's a jarry queer fish betimes, I grant you, and cantanberousº, the poisoner of his word,
but,º lice and all and semicoloured stainedglasses, I'm enormously full of that foreigner, I'll say I am! Got by the one goat, suckled by the same nanna, one twitch, one nature makes us oldworld kin. We're as thick and thin now as two tubular jawballs.
I hate him about his patent henesy, blasphº it,º
|shyet am I amoristºsh|. I love him. I love his old
portugal's nose.º There's the nasturtium for ye now that saved manny a poor sinker from water on the grave. |shThe diasporation of all pirates and quinconcentrum of a fake like Basilius O'Cormacan
MacArty?sh| To camiflag he turned his shirt. Isn't he after borrowing all before him,º |shmaking friendsº with
everyboobysh|,º |shred in Rossya, white in Alba,sh|º and
touching every distinguished Ourishman he could ever distinguish before or behind from a Yourishman for the customary halp of a crown and peace? He is looking aged with his pebbled eyes, and johnnythin tooº
|shfrom livicking on pidgins' ifssh| |shwith puffins'
andssh|.º |shHe'sº been slanderising
himselfsh|,º but I pass no remark. Hope he hasn't the cholera. Give him an eyot in the farout. |shMoseses and Noasies,º how are you?
He'd be as snug as Columbsisle Jonas wrocked in the belly of the whaves, as quotad before.sh|
Brayvoº, senior chief! Famose! Sure there's nobody else in
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touch anysides to hold a chef's cankle to the darling at all for sheer dare with that prisonpotstill of Spanishº
breans on him like the knave of trifles! A jollytan fine demented brick and the prince of goodfilips! Dave knows I have the highest of respect of
annyone in my oweand smooth way for that intellectual debtor |sh(obbligato!)sh|
|shMushuresh|º David R. Crozier.
|shAnd we're the closest of chems.sh|
|shMark my use of you, cog! Take notice how I yemploy, crib! Be ware as youº I foil,
coppy!sh| |shIt's a pity he can't see itsh| for I'm
terribly nice about him. Canwyll y Cymry, the marmade's flamme!º |shA leal of the O'Looniyssh|,
|sha Brazel aboosh|! The most omportent man! Shervos! Ho, be the holy
snakes,º someone has shaved his rough diamond skull for him as clean as Nuntius' piedish! The burnt out mesh and the matting and all! Thunderweather,º khyber schinker,º escapa sansa
pagar!º He's the spatton spit, so he is, |shscaly skin and allsh|, with his blackguarded
eyeº and the goatsbeard in his buttinghole,º of Shemuel Tulliver, me grandsourd, the old cruxader, when he off with his
paudeen! That was to let the crowd of Fluº Flux Fans behind him see me proper. Ah, he's very thoughtful and
sympatrico that way, isº |shBrother
Intelligentiussh|,º when he's not absintheminded, withº his Paris
adresseº! He is, really. Hold hardº till you'll ear him clicking his bull's bones! Some toad klakkin! You're welcome back, Wilkins,º to red
berries in the frost! |shAnd here's the butter exchange to pfeife and dramn ye with a bawlful of the Moulsaybaysse and yunker doodler wanked to wall awriting off his
phoney.sh| I'm tired hairing of you. Hat yourself! Give us your dyed dextremity here, frother, |shthe
Claddagh claspsh|! |shI met with dapper dandy and he shocked me big the
hamd.sh| Where'sº your watchkeeper?º You've seen all sorts in shapes and sizes, marauding about the mappamoundº.
|shHow's the cock and the bullfight? And old Auster and Hungrig? And the Beer and Belly and the Boot and Ball?sh| |shNot forgetting
the oils of greaseº under that turkey in julep and Father Freeshots Feilbogen in his rockery garden with the costardsº?sh| |shAnd did you meet
with Peadhar the Grab at all? And did you call on Tower Geesyhus? |shWassh| Mona, my own lovesh|,
|shno bigger than she should be,ºsh|
|shmaking up to yoush| in her bestbehaved manor |shwhen
yoush| made your breastlaw and |shmade her, tell me? And did you like the landskip from Lambay?sh| I'm better pleased than ten
guidneys! |shYou rejoice me!sh| Faith, I'm proud of you, french davit! You've surpassed yourself!º Be introduced
to yes! This is me aunt Julia Bride, |shyour honoursh|, dying to have you languish to scandal in her bosky old
delltangle. You don't reckoneyes him? He's Jackot the Horner who boxed in his corner,º |shjilting no fewer than three female
bribessh|. That's his penals. Shervorum! You haven't seen her since she stepped into her drawoffs.º Don't be
shoy,º husbandman!º Weih,º what'sº on you, wifewomanº? Up the
shamewauch!º She has plenty of woom in the smallclothes for the
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bothsforus, nephews push! Hatch yourself well! Come on, spinister, do your stuff!º |shWould you wait biss
she buds till you bite on her?sh| Embrace her bashfully by all meansº at my frank incensive and tell her in your semiological agglutinative
yezº like boyrun to sibsterº how Idos be asking after her. Let us be holy and
evil and let her be peace on the bough.º Sure, she fell in line with our tripertight photos as the lyonised mails when we were stablelads together like the
corksagainº brothers, hungry and angry, cavileer grace by roundhered force, meº and you,º shinners true,º and pinchme, our
tertius quiddus, that never talked or listened. Always raving how we had the wrinkles of a snailcharmerº and the slits and sniffers of a fellow that fell foul of the county de Loona and the meattrap of the first vegetarian.
|shTo be had for the asking.sh|
|shHave a hug!sh| Take her out of poor tuppennyº luck before she goes off in pure treple
licquidanceº. I'd give three shillings a pullet to the canon for the conjugation to shadow you kissing her |shfrom
mesh| liberallyº all over as if she was a crucifix. Enjombyourselves thurily.º It's good for her bilabials, you understand. There's nothing like the
mistletouch for finding a queen's earring false. Chink chink. As the curly bard said after kitchin the womn in his hym to the hum of her garments. You try a little tich to the tissle of his tail. The racist to the racy, rossy. The soil is for the self alone. Be ownkind. Be kithkinish. Be
bloodysibby. Be irish. Be inish. Be offalia. Be hamlet. Be the property plot. Be Yorick and Lankystare. Be cool. Be mackinamucks of yourselves. Be finish. No martyr where the preature is there's no plagues like rome. It gives up the gripes. Watch
the swansway. Take your tiger over it. The leady on the lake and the convict of the forest. Why, they might be Babau and Momie! Yipyip! To pan! To pan! To tinpinnypan. All folly me yap to Curlew!º
|shGive us a pin for hersh| and we'll call it a tossup.
|shCan you reverse positions?ºsh| Let'sº have a fuchu all round,
|shcourting cousinssh|! |shQuuck,º
the duck of a woman,º for quack,º the drake of a man, her little live apples for Leas and love potients for Leos, the next beast
king.sh| Put me down for all |shringside seatssh|.
|shI can feel you being corruptedº. Recoil.
I can see you sprouting scruples. Get back.sh| And as he's boiling with water I'll light your pyre.º Turn about, skeezy Sammy, out of
metaphor,º till we feel are you still tropeful of popetry. |shTold you so.sh|
If you doubt of his love of dare airingº his feelings you'll very much hurt,º for
Mischmaschº mastufractured on europe you can read off the tail of his. Rip ripper rippest and jac jac jac. Dwell on that, my hero and lander! That's the side that appeals to em, the wring wrong way to wright
woman.º Shuck her! Let him!º What he's good for. Shuck her more! Let him again! All she wants!
Could you wheedle a staveling encore out of your imitationer's jubalharp, hey,º Mr Jinglejoys? Congregational singing.
|shRota rota ran the pagoda con dio in capo ed il diavolo in coda.
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Many a diva devoutchkaº saw her Dauber Dan at the priesty pagoda Rota ran.sh| Uck! He's so sedulous to singe alwaysº if prumpted, the
|shmirthprovokersh|!º Grunt unto us, I pray,º your foreboden article in our own
dearº dockandoilish introducing the death of Nelson with coloraturas!º Coraio, fra! And I'll string secondsº to
hermaniseº. My loaf and pottage neaheaheahear Rochelle. With your dumpsey diddeleyº dumpsey die, fiddeley fa. Diavoloh! Or come
on, |shschoolcolourssh|, and we'll scrap,
rug and mat,º and then be as chummy as two bashed spuds. Bitrial bay holmgang or betrayal buyº jury. Attaboy!
Fee gate has Heenan hoity, mind uncle Hare? What, sir? Poss, myster?
|shAchieve!sh|º Thou thou?º What say ye? Taurus periculosus,º morbus
pediculosus.º Miserere mei in miseribilibus! There's uval lunguageº for you!º |shThe tower is precluded, the mob's in her petticoats,º
Mr R. E. Meehan is in misery with his billybootsºsh|. Begob, there's not so much green in his Ireland's eye!
|shSweet fellow ovocal,º he stones out of stune.sh| But
|shhe could be near a colonel with a voice like thatsh|. The bark is still there but the molars are gone. The misery billyboots I used to lend him before we
split!º |shBeº the hole in the year,º they were laking like heaven's
reflexes.sh| But I told him make your will be done and go to a general and I'd pray confessions for him. Areesh! Areesh! |shAnd I'll be your
intrepider.sh| Ambras! |shRuffle her!sh|
|shBussing was before the blood and bissing will behind the curtain.sh|
|shTriss!sh| Did you note that worrid expressionismº on his megalogue? A full octavium below me! And did you hear his
threeº browrings rattlemaking when he was preaching to himself? And (whoa!)º do you twig the schamlooking leaf greeping ghastly down his blousyfrock?
|shOur national umbloom!sh| Areesh! He won't. He's shoy. Those worthies, my old
faher's onkel that was garotted, Caius Cocoa Codinhand, that I lost in a crowd,º used to chop that tongue of his, japlatin, with my younkle'sº
owlseller,º Woowoolfe Woodenbeard, that went stonebatheredº, in the Tower of Balbus,º as brisk,
man,º as I'd scoff up muttan chepps and lobscouse. But it's all deafman's duff to me, begob. Sam knows miles bettern me how to work the miracle. And I see by his diarrhio he's
dropping the stammer out of his silenced bladder since I bonded him off more as a friend
and as a brother to try and grow a muff and canonise his dead feet down on the river airyº |shby thinking himself into the fourth
dimensionsh| and place the ocean between his and ours, |shthe churchyard in the cloister of the
depths,sh| after he was capped out of |shbeurlads scoelsh| for the sin
against the past participle and earned the jactitationº forº codding chaplainº and ofº being
|shas homely gauche assh| swift,º
B.A.A.º |shWho gets twickly fullgets twice as allemanden huskers. But the whacker his
word the weaker our ears for auracles who parles parses orileys oreillº. Illstarred punster,º lipstering cowknucks.sh|
'Twas the quadra sent him and trinityº too. |shAnd he can cantab as chipper as any
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oxon ever I mood with.sh| |shAº tiptoe
singer!sh|º He'll prisckly soon handtuneº your Erin's ear for you, p.p. aº mimograph at a time, numan bitter, with his ancomartinnsº to
read the road roman with false steps ad Pernicious from rhearsilvar ormolus to torquinions superbers while I'm far away from wherever thou art,º serving my tallyhos and tullying my
hostilious,º by going in by the most holy recitatandas fffforº my varsatile examinationsº in |shthe
ologiessh|, to be a coach on the |shFukien
missionsh|. ꟼ!º P? F? F!º How used you learn me, |shbrather
soboostiussh|º, in my
|shaugustansh| days? With cesarella looking on.
Ahehihohyoum!º In the beginning was the geste,º he jousstly says, for the end is with woman, flesh-without-word, while the man to be is in a worse case after than before since she on the supine
satisfies the verbº to him.º Toughtough, tootoological. Thou,º the first person shingeller. Art, an imperfect subjunctive. Paltry, flappent, haudº serious. Miss Smith,º onamatterpoetic.
Hamnisandwisº axes colles waxes warmas like sodullas. So pick your stops with fondness nowº. And mind you twine the twos noods of your nicenames. And pull up your furbelovs as farabove as you're farthingales.
|shThat'll hint him how to click the trigger.sh| Show you shall and
wontº he will! His hearing is indoubting just as my seeing is onbelieving. So dactylise him up to blankpoint and let him blink for himself where you speak the bestº ticklish.
|shYou'll feel what I mean.sh| Fond namer, let me never see thee blame a kiss for shame a knee!