FINNEGANS WAKE

Editions

Faber and Faber (London: 1939) IV§3

First edition, first printing (details)

Ha!

Dayagreeningº gains in schlimningingº. A summerwint springfalls, abated. Hail, regn of durknass, snowly receassing, thund lightening thund, into the dimbelowstardº departamenty whitherout, soon hist, soon mist, to the hothehill from the hollow, Solsking the Frist (attempted by the admirable Captive Bunting and Loftonant-Cornel Blaire) will processingly show up above Tumplen Bar whereupontº he was much jubilatedº by Boergemester “Dyk” ffogg of Isoles,º now Eisold,º looking most plussed with (exhib 39) a clout cappedº sunbubble anaccanponied from his bequined torse. Up.

Blanchardstown mewspeppers pleads coppyl. Gracest goodness, heave mensy upponnus! Grand old Manbuttonº, give your bowlers a rest!
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It is a mere mienerism of this vague of visibilities, mark you, as accorded to by moisturologist of the Brehons Assorceration for the advauncement of scayenceº because, my dear, mentioning of it under the breath, as in pure (what bunkum!) essenesse, there have been disselving forenenst you just the draeper, the two drawpers assisters and the three droopers assessors confraternitisers. Who are, of course, Uncle Arth, your two cozes from Niece and (kunjectº a bit now!) our own familiars,º Billyhealy, Ballyhooly and Bullyhowley,º surprised in an indecorous position by the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society for bledprusshers.º

Knightsmore. Haventyne?

Ha ha!

This Mister Ireland? And a live?

Ay, ay. Aye, aye, baas.

The cry of Stena chills the vitals of slumbring off the motther has been pleased into the harms of old salaciters, meassurers soon and soon, butº the voice of Alinaº gladdens the cocklyhearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing beckerbrose, the brew with the foochoor in it. Sawyest? Nodt? Nyets, I dhink I sawn to remumb or sumbsuch. A kind of a thinglike all traylogged then pubably it resymbles a pelvic or some kvind then props an acutebacked quadrangle with aslant off ohahnthenth a wenchyoumaycuddler,º lying with her royalirish uppershoes among the theeckleaves. Signs are on of a mere by token that wills still to be becomingº upon this there once a here was world. As the dayeleyves unfolden them. In the wake of the blackshape,º Nattenden Sorte;º whenat,º hindled firth and hundled furth,º the week of wakes is out and over;º as a wick weak woking from ennemberable Ashias unto fierce force fuming, temtem tamtam, the Phoenican wakes.

Passing. One. We are passing. Two. From sleep we are passing. Three. Into the wikeawades warld from sleep we are passing. Four. Come, hours, be ours!

But still. Ah diarº, ah diarº! And stay.º
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It was allso agreenable in our sinegear clutchless,º touring the no placelike no timelike absolent, mixing up pettyvaughan populose with the magnumoore genstries, lloydhaired mersscenary blookers with boydskinned pigttetailsº and goochlipped gwendolenes with duffyeyed dolores;º like so many unprobables in their poor suit of the improssable. With Mata and after please with Matamaru and after please stop with Matamaruluka and after stop do please with Matamarulukajoni.

And anotherum. Ah ess, dapple ass! He will be longing after the Grogram Grays. And, Weisingchetaoli,º he will levellautº ministel Trampleasure be. Sheflower Rosina, younger Sheflower fruit Amaryllis, youngest flowerfruityfrond Sallysill or Sillysall. And house with heaven roof occupanters they are continuatinglyº attraverse of its milletestudinous windows,º ricocoursing themselves, as staneglass on stonegloss, inplaynº unglish Wynn's Hotel. Brancherds at: Bullbeck, Oldboof, Sassondale,,º Jorseyº Uppygard, Mundelonde, Abbeytotte, Bracqueytuitte with Hockeyvilla, Fockeyvilla, Hillewille and Wallhall. Hoojahoo managers the thingaviking. Obning shotly. When the messanger of the risen sun,º (see other oriel) shall give to every seeable a hue and to every hearable a cry and to each spectacle his spot and to each happening her houram. The while we, we are waiting, we are waiting for. Hymn.

Muta:º Quodestnunc fumusiste volhvuns ex Domoyno?

Juva:º It is Old Head of Kettle puffing off the top of the mornin.

Muta:º He odda be thorly well ashamed of himself for smoking before the high host.

Juva:º Dies is Dorminus master and commandant illy tonobrass.

Muta:º Diminussed aster! An I could peecieveº amonkst the gatherings whoº ever they wolk in process?

Juva:º Khubadah! It is the Chrystanthemlander with his porters of bonzos, pompommyº plonkyplonk, the ghariwallahs, moveyovering the cabrattlefield of slaineº.

Muta:º Pongo da Banza! An I would uscertain in druidful scatterings one piece tall chap he stand one piece same place?
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Juva:º Bulkily: and he is fundementially theosophagusted over the whorse proceedings.

Muta:º Petrificationibus! O horildº haraflare! Who his dickhuns now rearrexes from undernearth the memorialorum?

Juva:º Beleave filmly, beleave!º Fing Fing! King King!

Muta:º Ulloverum? Fulgitudo ejus Rhedonum teneat!

Juva:º Rolantlossly! Till the tipp of his ziff. And the ubideintia of the savium is our ervics fenicitas.

Muta:º Why soly smiles the supremest with such for a leary on his rugular lips?

Juva:º Bitchorbotchum! Eebrydime! He has helpº his crewn on the burkeley buyº but he has holf his crown on the Eurasian Generalissimo.

Muta:º Skulkasloot! The twyly velleid is thus then paridicynical?

Juva:º Ut vivat volumen sic pereat pouradosus!

Muta:º Haven money on stablecertº?

Juva:º Tempt to wom Outsider!

Muta:º Suc? He quoffs. Wutt?

Juva:º Sec! Wartar wartar! Wett.

Muta:º Ad Piabelle et Purabelle?

Juva:º At Winne, Woermann og Sengs.

Muta:º So that when we shall have acquired unification we shall pass on to diversity and when we shall have passed on to diversity we shall have acquired the instinct toº combat and when we shall have acquired the instinct of combat we shall pass back to the spirit of appeasement?

Juva:º By the light of the bright reason which daysends to us from the high.

Muta:º May I borrow that hordwanderbaffle from you, old rubberskin?º

Juva:º Here it is and I hope it's your wormingpen, Erinmonker!º

Shoot.

Rhythm and Colour at Park Mootingº. Peredos Last in the Grand Natural. Velivision victor. Dubs newstage oldtime turftussle, recalling Winny Willy Widger. Two draws. Heliotrope
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leads from Harem. Three ties. Jockey the Ropper jerks Jake the Rape. Paddrock and bookley chat.

And here are the details.

Tunc. Bymeby,º bullockyº vampas tappany bobsº topside joss pidgin fella Balkellyº, archdruid of islish chinchinjossº in the his heptachromatic sevenhued septicoloured roranyellgreenlindiganº mantle finish he show along the his mister guest Patholic with alb belongahimº the whose throat hum with of sametime all the his cassock groaner fellas of greysfriaryfamily he fast all time what time all him monkafellas with Same Patholic,º quoniam, speeching,º yeh notº speeching noh man liberty is,º he drink up words,º scilicet,º tomorrow till recover will not,º all too many much illusiones through photoprismic velamina of hueful panepiphanal world spectacurum of Lordº Joss,º the of which zoantholiticº furniture,º from mineral through vegetal to animal,º not appear to full up together fallen man than under but one photoreflectionº of the several iridals gradationes of solar light,º that one which that part of it (furnit of heupanepiº world)º had shown itself (part of fur of huepanwor) unable to absorbere,º whereas for numpa one puraduxedº seer in seventh degree of wisdom of Entis-Onton he savvy inside true inwardness of reality, theº Ding hvad in idself id estº, all objects (of panepiwor) allside showed themselves in trues coloribus resplendent with sextuple gloria of light actually retained, untisintus,º inside them ( obs of epiwo). Rumnant Patholic, stareotypopticusº, no catch all that preachybook, utpiam,º tomorrow recover thing even is not, bymebyº vampsybobsy tappanasbullocksº topside joss pidginfellaº Bilkilly-Belkelly say patfella, ontesantes,º twotime hemhaltshealing,º with other words verbigratiagrading from murmurulentous till stridulocelerious in a hunghoranghoangoly tsinglontsengº while his comprehendurient,º with diminishing claractinism,º augumentationed himself in caloripeia to vision so throughsighty, you anxioust melancholic, High Thats Hight Uberking Leary his fiery grassbelonghead all show colour of sorrelwood herbgreen, again, niggerblonker, of the his essixcoloured holmgrewnworsteds costume the his fellow saffron pettikilt look same hue of boiled spinasses,
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other thing voluntary mutismuserº he not compyhandy the hisº golden twobreasttorc look justsamelike curlicabbis, moreafter, to pace negativisticists, verdant readyrainroof belongahim Exuber High Ober Kingº Leary very dead, what he wish to say,º spit of superexuberabundancy plenty laurel leaves, after thatº commander bulopentº eyes of Most Highest Ardreetsar Kingº same thing like thyme choppy upon parsley, alongsidethat, if pleasesir,º nosº displace tauttung,º sowlofabishospastored,º enamel Indian gem in maledictive fingerfondler of High High Siresultan Emperor all same like one fellow olive lentil, onthelongsidethatº, by undesendasº, kirikirikiring, violaceous warwon contusiones of facebutsº of Highup Big Cockywocky Sublissimime Autocrat, forº that with pure hueglut intensely saturated one,º tinged uniformly,º allaroundside upinandoutdown,º very like you seecut chowchow of plentymuch sennacassia. Hump cumps Ebblybally!º Sukkot?

Punc. Bigseer, refrects the petty padre, whackling it out, a tumble to takeº, tripeness to call thing andº to call if say is good while, you pore shiroskuro blackinwhitepaddynger, by thiswisº aposterioprismically apatstrophied and paralogically periparolysed, celestial from principalest of Iro's Irismans ruinboon pot before, (for beingtime monkblinkers timeblingedº completamentarily murkblankered in their neutrolysis between the possible viriditude of the sager and the probable eruberuption of the saint),º as My tappropinquish to Me wipenmeselps gnosegates a handcaughtscheafº of synthetic shammyrag to hims hers,º seemingsuch four three two agreement cause heart to be might, saving to Balenoarch (he kneeleths), to Great Balenoarchº (he kneeleths down)º to Greatest Great Balenoarch (he kneeleths down quitesomely), the sound sense sympol in a weedwayedwold of the firethere the sun in his halo cast. Onmen.

That was thing, bygotter, the thing, bogcotton, the very thing, begad.º Even to uptoputty Bilkilly-Belkelly-Balkally. Who was for shouting down the shatton on the lamp of Jeeshees. Sweating on to stonker and throw his seven. As he shuck his thumping fore features apt the hoyhop of His Ards.

Thud.
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Good safe firelamp! hailed the heliots. Goldselforelump! Halledº they. Awed. Where thereon the skyfold high,º trampatrampatramp. Adie. Per ye comdoomº doominoom noonstroom. Yeasome priestomes. Fullyhum toowhoom.

Taawhaar?

Sants and sogs, cabs and cobs, kings and karls, tentes and taunts.

'Tis gone infaroverº. So fore now, dayleash. Pour deday.º To trancefixureashone. Feist of Taborneccles, scenopegia, come! Shamwork, be in our scheining! And let every crisscouple be so crosscomplimentary,º little eggons, youlk and meelk,º in a farbiger pancosmos. With a hottyhammyum all round. Gudstruce!º

Yet is no body present here which was not there before. Only is order othered. Nought is nulled. Fuitfiat!

Lo, the laud of laurens now orielising benedictively when saint and sage have said their say.

A spathe of calyptrous glume involucrumines the perinanthean Amenta: fungoalgaceous muscafilicial graminopalmularº planteon;º of increasing, livivorous, feelful thinkamalinks;º luxuriotiating everywhencewithersoeverº among skullhullows and charnelcysts of a weedwastewoldwevildº when Ralph the Retriever ranges to jawrode his knuts knuckles and her theas thighs;º onegugulpº down of the nauseous forere brarkfarsts oboboomaround and you'reº as paint and spickspanº as a rainbow; wreathe the bowl to rid the bowel; no runcure, no rank heat, sir; amess in amullium; chlorid cup.

Health, chalce, endnessnessessity! Arrive, likkypuggersº, in a poke! The folgor of the frightfools is olympically optimominous; there is bound to be a lovleg day for mirrages in the open; Murnane and Aveling are undertoken to berry that ortchert: provided that. You got to make good that breachsuit, seamer. You going to haulm port houlm, toilermaster. You yet must get up to kill (nonparticular). You still stand by and do as hit (private). While for yous, Jasminia Aruna and all your likers, affinitatively must it be by you elected if Monogynes his is or hers Diander, the tubous, limbersome and nectarial. Owned or
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grazeheifer, ethel or bonding.º Mopsus or Gracchus, all your horodities will incessantlament be coming back from the Annone wishwashwhoseº, Ormepierre Lodge, Doone of the Drumes, blanches bountifully and nightsendº made up, every articleº lathering leaving several rinsings so as each rinse results with a dapperent rolle, cuffs for meek and chokers for sheek and a kink in the pacts for namby. Forbeer, forbear! For nought that is has bane. In mournenslaund. Themes have thimes and habit reburns. To flame in you. Ardor vigor forders order. Since ancient was our living is in possible to be. Delivered as. Caffirs and culls and onceagain overalls,º the fittest surviva livesº that blued, iorn and storridge can make them. Whichus all claims. Clean. Whenastcleepsº. Close. And the mannormillor clipperclappers. Noxt. Doze.º

Fennsense, finnsonse, awornº! Tuck upp those wide shorts. The pink of the busket for sheer give. Peeps. Stand up to hard ware and step into style. If you soil may, puett, guett me prives. For newmanmaun set a marge to the merge of unnotions. Innition wons agame.