FINNEGANS WAKE
Protodrafts
2nd fair copy, July 1923, IV§2 draft level 3
MS British Library 47488 25-26 Draft details
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Of Kevin, of Increate God the servant, of the Lord Creator a filial fearer, the miracles, death and life are these … Procreated on the ultimate island of Ireland in the |3encyclical3| Irish ocean,
come |3his their3| feast of precreated holy
|3whiteclad3| angels, voluntarily poor Kevin, having been granted the privilege of a priest's postcreated portable altare cum balneo when
espousing the true cross|3, invented & exalted,3| in celibate matrimony,
|3at matin chime3| arose and |3westfrom3| went and came
|3in alb of cloth of gold3| to |3our3| midmost Glendalough |3le
Vert3| by archangelical guidance where amiddle of meeting waters of river Slaney and Liffey river on this one lone navigable lake piously Kevin
|3|alauding the Triune Trishagion,a|3| amidships of his conducible altar super bath rafted centripetally,
|3lauding the Triune Trishagion,3| diaconal servant of orders Hibernian, midway across the subject lake surface to its supreme lake isle,º whereof its lake is
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blank principality, whereon |3by the hour of prime3|, powerful in
knowledge, Kevin came to where its centre is among the circumfluent watercourses of Ishgagrania and Ishgadectera an enisled lakelet islanding a lacustrine islet whereupon with beached raft subdiaconal bath propter altar, with oil extremely anointed, accompanied by prayer, holy Kevin bided |3till the
third |amorna| hour3| but to build a
|3rubric3| penitential honeybeehivehut |3wherein in whose
enclosure3| to live in fortitude, acolyte of cardinal virtues, whereof the arenary floor most holy Kevin excavated as deep as to a depth of a seventh part of one full fathom, which excavated, venerable
|3anchorite3| Kevin, taking counsel, proceeded towards the lakeside of the isletshore whereat seven several times he |3eastward3| genuflecting
|3in entire obedience at sextnoon none3|
|3filled collected3| with Gregorian water and with Ambrosian eucharistic joy of heart receded carrying thatº
privileged altar unacumque bath which severally seven times into the cavity excavated, a lector of water levels, most venerable Kevin then effused thereby letting there be water where was theretofore dry land by wh him
|3so3| cocreated who now, confirmed a strongº perfect Christian blessed Kevin exorcised his holy sister water|3,
chaste perpetually,3| so that well understanding she should fill to midheight his tubbathaltar which handbathtub most blessed Kevin
|3ninthly3| enthroned in the intercentre of the translated water whereamid |3when
violet vesper fell3| Saint Kevin |3Hydrophilus3|, having girded his
|3frock |acandid alb sable cappa
magnaa|3| to his cherubical loins, |3solemnly at solemn compline3| sat in his seat of
wisdom, that hipbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor solitarius |3of the universal church3|, keeper of the door of meditation,
|3memory |aextemporea| proposing and intellect |aformallya|
considering, recluse,3| he meditated |3continuously3| with seraphic ardour, the initi
primal sacrament of baptism or the regeneration of man by |3affusion of3| water.