FINNEGANS WAKE
Protodrafts
1st draft, October-November 1925, III§4M draft level 0
MS British Library 47482a 6-8 Draft details
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Don't wake him now: he sighed in sleep: let us be gone: while |aquivering hoveringa| dreams dreamwings, folding round, will hide |afrom fearsa| my mannikin, guard my mannikin, keep my bairn. To bed!
Projector & |asole tracer giant buildera| of |aalla|
causeways |a|bwheresoever wheresoevenb|a|, hoppingoffpoint and terminus of
|astraightcuts strafstraightcutsa| and corkscrewn perambuloops, zeal whence
|a& |bfor tob|a| goal whither wanderlust
|aon account |bwhereasb| in sequencea| of which every
|amight mortal muckera| |amust make makesa| a
|apartiala| mickle, as different as York from Leeds
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|aas beinga| the only way |aof ina| the world to look after itself
beforeland; mirrorminded curiosity and would-to-the-large which brings hill |ato hunter upto molehuntera|, home |ato through
1sta| husband, perils before swine, & |ahorse upon horsepower down toa| hungerford, prick this man and
|abob twota| this woman, |acorrect our
|bfirst forcedb| payrents, |blame of his ear and short of her legb| most
correctingly we bes |bbeseech each of you beseach of yeb|,a| down
|athe theira| laddercase of dark by payrail watchnight service and guide them
|adegrading perambulators |b& bring them at suntimeb|a|
|ato the flush with thea| lowermost |adegradation
gangdaysa| of their stepchildren, through the labyrinth of their |asimilars and |blikes
semilikesb| &a| the |adevious trails |balterations
|cvapulations alteregoasesc|b|a| of their |aown selves
pseudoselvesa|: this |aunreada|
|ahoarwhite |bWoolwhite albwhiteb|a| arsenic
|awith — — with his bloody little mortal sin with his peccadilly, hodinstag Hodinstag by
friggabett Friggabetta| baron and feme: that he may |adiscover
dishcovera| her: that she may |auncover uncouplea| him:
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that he may |aclose over: |bcome & cover her: comencupper herb|a| that they
|arecover soon recoupa| themselves: now and then, time and time again, as per periodicity: |avia mala, hyber pass: through lands
vague and vain, after mandelays:a| in |athe theira| first case, |ain
their to thea| next place, |ain their cousins' cousins till our cozenkerriesa|: the high & the by,
|athe botha| pent & plain: |a|bwhetherb| whacked to the wide
|band happy under or tied tob| housetree: in the grounds or
unterlinnen: |brue toolate and ca'canny:b| shipside, by convent
garden:a| monk |a& |bat butb|a| sempstress,
|aand |bsand santb|a| in sackcloth silkily: curious dreamers, curious
dramas, curious |ademons daimon demona|,
|aplagiarist plagiasta| dayman, plagiarist dearest,
|aplagiarist plaguiesta| dourest: |awhile Antrim's drummers
for the strangfort plantersa| are prodesting and |athe Corkery de
karkerya| felons |aare
drya| flooring it the |aLiberties' lapp
leperties'a| ladds clearing the way, |aplumpa| for |aSligo
slygoa| Slee.