FINNEGANS WAKE

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Textual development Manuscript to Errata IV§2

Compiled by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon

Of Kevin, of Increateº God the servant, of the Lord Creatorº a filial fearer, |9who|err,ºerr| given to the growing grass|err,ºerr| took to the tall timber, slippery dick the springy heeler,9| |6as we have seen, so we have heard, what we have received, that we have transmitted, thus we shall hope, this we shall pray till|7, in the search for love of knowledge through the comprehension of the unity in altruism through stupefaction,7| it may beº again how it may beº again, |ashearing aside the four wethers and passing over the dainty daily dairy and dropping by the way the lapful of live coals and smoothing out Nelly Nettle and her lad of mettle, full of stings,
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|bfull fondb| of stones, friend of |bdeadmen sbones gnewgnawn sbones,ºb| and leaving all thatº messy messy to look after our douche douche,a|6| the miracles, death and life are these.

|6Yad.6| Procreated |5'|~eugenically~|5'| on the ultimate |6island of Ireland ysland of ireland Yreland6| in the encyclical |6Irish Yrishº6| |5'|~polynesian~|5'| archipelago, come their feast of precreated holy whiteclad angels, |6whomamong the christener of his,6| voluntarily poor |5'|~Eugene~|5'| Kevin, having been |6granted graunted6| the |6privilege praviloge6| of a priest's postcreated portable altare cum balneo whenº espousing the one true cross, invented and exalted, in celibate matrimony at matin chime arose and westfrom went and came in alb of cloth of gold to our own midmost Glendalough-le-Vertº by archangelicalº guidance where amiddle of meeting waters of river |6Slaney and Liffey |aIssia Yssiaa| and Essiaº6| river on this one |6of eithers6| lone navigable lake piously Kevin, laudingº the Triune Trishagion,º amidships of his conducible |5'|~miraculoid~|5'| altar superº bathº rafted centripetally, diaconal |6servant servent6| of orders Hibernian,º midway across the subject lake surface to its |6supreme supreem6| epicentric lake |6isle ysleº6|, Inis Kevin,º whereof its lake is the centrifugalº principality, whereon by prime,º powerful in knowledge,º Kevin came to where its centre is among the circumfluent watercourses of |6Ishgagrania and Ishgadectera Yshgafiena and Yshgafiuna6|,º an |7enisled enysled7| lakelet |6islanding yslanding6| a lacustrine |6islet yslet6|,º whereupon with beached raft subdiaconal bath propter altar, with oil extremely anointed,º accompanied by prayer, holyº Kevin |5'|~isolated~|5'| bided till the third morn hour but to build a rubric penitential |5'honeybeehivehut |~honeybeehivecashelhut honeybeehivehut~|5'| inº whose enclosure to live in fortitude, acolyte |5'|~in heroicity~|5'| of cardinalº virtues, whereof the arenary floorº most holy Kevin excavated as deep as to aº depth of a seventh part of one full fathom, which excavated,º venerable Kevin,º |6anchorite (10anchirite anchorite10)6|, taking counsel, proceededº towards the lakeside of the |6isletshore ysletshore6| whereat seven several times heº eastward genuflectingº in entire |6obedience ubbidienceº6| at sextnoon collected |5'|~infusion of~|5'| Gregorian water sevenfold
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and with Ambrosianº eucharistic joy of heart as many times recededº carrying the lustral domination contained within his most portableº |6privileged previligedº6| altar unacumque bath,º which severally seven times into the cavity excavated, a lector of |5'water levels |~waterlevels water levels~|5'|, most venerable Kevinº then effused,º thereby letting there be water where was theretofore dry land,º by him so concreated,º who now, confirmed a strong andº perfect Christianº, blessed Kevin, exorcised his holy sister
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water, perpetually chaste, so that(10,10) well understanding(10,10) she should fill to midheight his tubbathaltar, which handbathtubº most blessed Kevinº ninthly enthronedº in the interconcentricº centreº of the translated waterº whereamid, when violet vesper vailed, Saintº Kevinº |6Hydrophilus Hydrophilos6|, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his |6seat sate6| of wisdom, that hipbathtub,º whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis |5'|~insulae continentis~|5'| of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he|5'|~, finally persevering,~|5'| meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacrament of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water. |6Yed.º6|

|6Bisships, bevel to rock's |aright ritea|! Sarver buoy, extinguish!º

Plap Plap.

Nuotabeneº. The rare view from the g three Benns |7under the bald heaven7| is on the other end|7|+, askan your blixom on dimmen and blastun,+|7| something to right hume about. They were erected in a purvious century |7|aasº a hen fine coopsa| and,º if you know your Bristol |aand have trudged the trolly ways and elventurns of that old cobbold citya|,º you will sortofficially scribble a mental Peny-Knox-Gore7|. Whether they were franklings by name also has not been fully probed. Their design is a whosold word and the charming details of light in dark are freshed from the feminiairity which breathes content. |7O ferax cupla!º Ah, faery p fairypair!7| The first exploder to make his ablations in these parks was indeed that lucky mortal |7which the monster trial showed on its first day out7|. |7What will not |+arky+| paper,º anticidingly inked with Penmark,º push, |+per sample prof, kuvertly falted,+| when style, stink and stigmataphoron are of one sum in the same person?7| He comes out of the soil very well after all |7|+just where Old Toffler is to come shuffling along whe alongsoons |aFannipanni Panniquanniºa| starts showing of her |apeequuliara| talonts+|7|. |7|+A waywrongº wandler siukingº to a rightrare rute for his plain utterrock sukes,º appelled to by her fancy claddaghs. You plied that pokar, gamesy, swell as aye did, while there were flickars to the flores+|7|. |7There He may be humpy, nay, he may be dumpy,º but there7| is always something racey about|7, say,7| a sailor on a horse. |7|aAs soon as we sale him|b, gee,ºb| we gates a sprise!a| He brings up tufatufaº and
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that is how we get to Missas in Massas. |a|bTheeº old Marino (10Tale tale10).b| We veriterseº verity notafewº demmed lustres priorly magistrite maximollient in (10Ludubility ludubility10)
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learned.º Facst. Teak off that wise head!a|7| Great sinner, good sonner, is in |s+7fact effects+|7| the motto of the MacCowell family. The gloved |7hand fist (skrimmhandsker)7| was |7introduced intraduced7| into their |7sacerdotal |+scerdatal socerdatal+|7| tree before the fourth of the twelfth and it is even a little odd all four |ahorologeries horolodgeriesa| still gonging |asound restage Jakob van der Bethel,º smolking behindº his pipe,º and with Esavº of Messagepostumia,º lentling out his |bborrowedb| chafingdish,º |7and sound before |+symbaloosing cymbaloosing+|7|a| the apostles at |saall everysa| hours of changeover, the. |7The first and last rittlerattle of the anniverse:º when is a nam nought a nam whenas it is a. Watch! |+|s9Heroes Heroes's9| Highway where our fleshers leave their bonings |8and every bob and joan to fill the bumper fair8|.+|7| |aThe It is theira| |+7signal segnall+|7| for old |aChampelysed |s8Champelysed Champelysieds8|a| to |aseeks seeka| the shades of his retirement and for young Chappielassies to tear around a round and tease their partners lovesoftfun at |7blank at Finnegan's Wake7|.6|

|6And it's high tit |atiti, tittly tigh tigh. Titleya|,º high titi. high ti hi ti ti. |saMy That mysa| dig pressed in your dag si.º |7|+Gnug of old Gnig.º Ni, gnid mig brawly!+|7| I bag your burden!º |aThees is mees Mees is theesa| knees. |7|+Thi is Mi.+|7| |aWe have caught oneselves|7|+, |aSveameas Sveasmeasa|,+|7| in somes |sbblank incontigruitysb| coumplegs |7|+of (10heoponhollish heoponhurrish10) marrage+|7| from |sbwhosemose befreeme sublumber me whose I most sublumbunatesb|. A |+7polog. polog, my engl!+|7|a| Excutes. Om still |asa soa| sovvy. |aWhy Whylea| om till ti ti.6|