Text FW 033 – Finnegans *web* Wake

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inged there a cuckoospit less eminent than the redritualhoods of		1
Maccabe and Cullen) where, a veritable Napoleon the Nth, our		2
worldstage's practical jokepiece and retired cecelticocommediant		3
in his own wise, this folksforefather all of the time sat, having the		4
entirety of his house about him, with the invariable broadstretched		5
kerchief cooling his whole neck, nape and shoulderblades and in		6
a wardrobe panelled tuxedo completely thrown back from a shirt		7
well entitled a swallowall, on every point far outstarching the		8
laundered clawhammers and marbletopped highboys of the pit		9
stalls and early amphitheatre. The piece was this: look at the lamps.		10
The cast was thus: see under the clock. Ladies circle: cloaks may		11
be left. Pit, prommer and parterre, standing room only. Habituels		12
conspicuously emergent.		13
A baser meaning has been read into these characters the literal		14
sense of which decency can safely scarcely hint. It has been blur-		15
tingly bruited by certain wisecrackers (the stinks of Mohorat are		16
in the nightplots of the morning), that he suffered from a vile		17
disease. Athma, unmanner them! To such a suggestion the one		18
selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements		19
which ought not to be, and one should like to hope to be able to		20
add, ought not to be allowed to be made. Nor have his detractors,		21
who, an imperfectly warmblooded race, apparently conceive him		22
as a great white caterpillar capable of any and every enormity in		23
the calendar recorded to the discredit of the Juke and Kellikek		24
families, mended their case by insinuating that, alternately, he lay		25
at one time under the ludicrous imputation of annoying Welsh		26
fusiliers in the people's park. Hay, hay, hay! Hoq, hoq, hoq!		27
Faun and Flora on the lea love that little old joq. To anyone who		28
knew and loved the christlikeness of the big cleanminded giant		29
H. C. Earwicker throughout his excellency long vicefreegal exis-		30
tence the mere suggestion of him as a lustsleuth nosing for trou-		31
ble in a boobytrap rings particularly preposterous. Truth, beard		32
on prophet, compels one to add that there is said to have been		33
quondam (pfuit! pfuit!) some case of the kind implicating, it is		34
interdum believed, a quidam (if he did not exist it would be ne-		35
cessary quoniam to invent him) abhout that time stambuling ha-		36

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