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after Tom Bowe Glassarse or Timmy the Tosser. 'Tisraely the1
truth! No isn't it, roman pathoricks? You were the doublejoynted2
janitor the morning they were delivered and you'll be a grandfer3
yet entirely when the ritehand seizes what the lovearm knows.4
Kevin's just a doat with his cherub cheek, chalking oghres on5
walls, and his little lamp and schoolbelt and bag of knicks, playing6
postman's knock round the diggings and if the seep were milk7
you could lieve his olde by his ide but, laus sake, the devil does8
be in that knirps of a Jerry sometimes, the tarandtan plaidboy,9
making encostive inkum out of the last of his lavings and writing10
a blue streak over his bourseday shirt. Hetty Jane's a child of11
Mary. She'll be coming (for they're sure to choose her) in her12
white of gold with a tourch of ivy to rekindle the flame on Felix13
Day. But Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. You remember14
Essie in our Luna's Convent? They called her Holly Merry her15
lips were so ruddyberry and Pia de Purebelle when the redminers16
riots was on about her. Were I a clerk designate to the Williams-17
woodsmenufactors I'd poster those pouters on every jamb in the18
town. She's making her rep at Lanner's twicenightly. With the19
tabarine tamtammers of the whirligigmagees. Beats that cachucha20
flat. 'Twould dilate your heart to go.21
     Aisy now, you decent man, with your knees and lie quiet and 22
repose your honour's lordship! Hold him here, Ezekiel Irons, and23
may God strengthen you! It's our warm spirits, boys, he's spoor-24
ing. Dimitrius O'Flagonan, cork that cure for the Clancartys ! You25
swamped enough since Portobello to float the Pomeroy. Fetch26
neahere, Pat Koy! And fetch nouyou, Pam Yates! Be nayther27
angst of Wramawitch! Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum,28
where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O29
sleepy! So be yet!30
     I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate and the butter, trust me. 31
She'll do no jugglywuggly with her war souvenir postcards to32
help to build me murial, tippers! I'll trip your traps! Assure a33
sure there! And we put on your clock again, sir, for you. Did or34
didn't we, sharestutterers? So you won't be up a stump entirely.35
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the pure perfection and Leatherbags Reynolds tries your shuffle1
and cut. But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale2
eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him the journeyall3
Buggaloffs since he went Jerusalemfaring in Arssia Manor. You4
had a gamier cock than Pete, Jake or Martin and your archgoose5
of geese stubbled for All Angels' Day. So may the priest of seven6
worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you7
as your hair grows wheater beside the Liffey that's in Heaven!8
Hep, hep, hurrah there! Hero! Seven times thereto we salute9
you! The whole bag of kits, falconplumes and jackboots incloted,10
is where you flung them that time. Your heart is in the system11
of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copri-12
capron. Your feet are in the cloister of Virgo. Your olala is in the13
region of sahuls. And that's ashore as you were born. Your shuck14
tick's swell. And that there texas is tow linen. The loamsome15
roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not16
unrested ! The headboddylwatcher of the chempel of Isid,17
Totumcalmum, saith: I know thee, metherjar, I know thee, sal-18
vation boat. For we have performed upon thee, thou abrama-19
nation, who comest ever without being invoked, whose coming20
is unknown, all the things which the company of the precentors21
and of the grammarians of Christpatrick's ordered concerning22
thee in the matter of the work of thy tombing. Howe of the ship-23
men, steep wall!24
     Everything's going on the same or so it appeals to all of us, 25
in the old holmsted here. Coughings all over the sanctuary, bad26
scrant to me aunt Florenza. The horn for breakfast, one o'gong27
for lunch and dinnerchime. As popular as when Belly the First28
was keng and his members met in the Diet of Man. The same29
shop slop in the window. Jacob's lettercrackers and Dr Tipple's30
Vi-Cocoa and the Eswuards' desippated soup beside Mother Sea-31
gull's syrup. Meat took a drop when Reilly-Parsons failed. Coal's32
short but we've plenty of bog in the yard. And barley's up again,33
begrained to it. The lads is attending school nessans regular, sir,34
spelling beesknees with hathatansy and turning out tables by35
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you presents, won't we, fenians? And il isn't our spittle we'll stint1
you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, pennydirts and2
dodgemyeyes you buy in the soottee stores. But offerings of the3
field. Mieliodories, that Doctor Faherty, the madison man,4
taught to gooden you. Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is5
the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax, the food for6
glory, (mind you keep the pot or your nectar cup may yield too7
light !) and some goat's milk, sir, like the maid used to bring you.8
Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan9
Lalors piped you overborder and there's whole households be-10
yond the Bothnians and they calling names after you. The men-11
here's always talking of you sitting around on the pig's cheeks12
under the sacred rooftree, over the bowls of memory where every13
hollow holds a hallow, with a pledge till the drengs, in the Salmon14
House. And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat15
on high is the mark of your manument. All the toethpicks ever16
Eirenesians chewed on are chips chepped from that battery17
block. If you were bowed and soild and letdown itself from the18
oner of the load it was that paddyplanters might pack up plenty and19
when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses20
you showed our labourlasses how to free was easy. The game old21
Gunne, they do be saying, (skull !) that was a planter for you, a22
spicer of them all. Begog but he was, the G.O.G! He's dudd-23
andgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq24
but peace to his great limbs, the buddhoch, with the last league25
long rest of him, while the millioncandled eye of Tuskar sweeps26
the Moylean Main ! There was never a warlord in Great Erinnes27
and Brettland, no, nor in all Pike County like you, they say. No,28
nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king.29
That you could fell an elmstree twelve urchins couldn't ring30
round and hoist high the stone that Liam failed. Who but a Mac-31
cullaghmore the reise of our fortunes and the faunayman at the32
funeral to compass our cause? If you was hogglebully itself and33
most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was34
your like to lay the cable or who was the batter could better35
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to play cash cash in Novo Nilbud by swamplight nor a' toole o'1
tall o' toll and noddy hint to the convaynience.2
     He dug in and dug out by the skill of his tilth for himself and 3
all belonging to him and he sweated his crew beneath his auspice4
for the living and he urned his dread, that dragon volant, and he5
made louse for us and delivered us to boll weevils amain, that6
mighty liberator, Unfru-Chikda-Uru-Wukru and begad he did,7
our ancestor most worshipful, till he thought of a better one in8
his windower's house with that blushmantle upon him from ears-9
end to earsend. And would again could whispring grassies wake10
him and may again when the fiery bird disembers. And will11
again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said. Have12
you whines for my wedding, did you bring bride and bedding,13
will you whoop for my deading is a? Wake? Usgueadbaugham!14
     Anam muck an dhoul ! Did ye drink me doornail? 15
     Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure 16
like a god on pension and don't be walking abroad. Sure you'd17
only lose yourself in Healiopolis now the way your roads in18
Kapelavaster are that winding there after the calvary, the North19
Umbrian and the Fivs Barrow and Waddlings Raid and the20
Bower Moore and wet your feet maybe with the foggy dew's21
abroad. Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey22
with his shoe hanging, clankatachankata, or a slut snoring with an23
impure infant on a bench. 'Twould turn you against life, so24
twould. And the weather's that mean too. To part from Devlin25
is hard as Nugent knew, to leave the clean tanglesome one lushier26
than its neighbour enfranchisable fields but let your ghost have27
no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are, primesigned28
in the full of your dress, bloodeagle waistcoat and all, remember-29
ing your shapes and sizes on the pillow of your babycurls under30
your sycamore by the keld water where the Tory's clay will scare31
the varmints and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket,32
kerchief, ring and amberulla, the whole treasure of the pyre, in the33
land of souls with Homin and Broin Baroke and pole ole Lonan34
and Nobucketnozzler and the Guinnghis Khan. And we'll be35
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framed panuncular cumbottes like a rudd yellan gruebleen or-1
angeman in his violet indigonation, to the whole longth of the2
strongth of his bowman's bill. And he clopped his rude hand to3
his eacy hitch and he ordurd and his thick spch spck for her to4
shut up shop, dappy. And the duppy shot the shutter clup (Per-5
kodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurth-6
rumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun!) And they all drank7
free. For one man in his armour was a fat match always for any8
girls under shurts. And that was the first peace of illiterative9
porthery in all the flamend floody flatuous world. How kirssy the10
tiler made a sweet unclose to the Narwhealian captol. Saw fore11
shalt thou sea. Betoun ye and be. The prankquean was to hold12
her dummyship and the jimminies was to keep the peacewave13
and van Hoother was to git the wind up. Thus the hearsomeness14
of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis.15
     O foenix culprit! Ex nickylow malo comes mickelmassed bo- 16
num. Hill, rill, ones in company, billeted, less be proud of. Breast17
high and bestride! Only for that these will not breathe upon18
Norronesen or Irenean the secrest of their soorcelossness. Quar-19
ry silex, Homfrie Noanswa! Undy gentian festyknees, Livia No-20
answa? Wolkencap is on him, frowned; audiurient, he would21
evesdrip, were it mous at hand, were it dinn of bottles in the far22
ear. Murk, his vales are darkling. With lipth she lithpeth to him23
all to time of thuch on thuch and thow on thow. She he she ho24
she ha to la. Hairfluke, if he could bad twig her! Impalpabunt,25
he abhears. The soundwaves are his buffeteers; they trompe him26
with their trompes; the wave of roary and the wave of hooshed27
and the wave of hawhawhawrd and the wave of neverheedthem-28
horseluggarsandlisteltomine. Landloughed by his neaghboormis-29
tress and perpetrified in his offsprung, sabes and suckers, the30
moaning pipers could tell him to his faceback, the louthly one31
whose loab we are devorers of, how butt for his hold halibutt, or32
her to her pudor puff, the lipalip one whose libe we drink at, how33
biff for her tiddywink of a windfall, our breed and washer givers,34
there would not be a holey spier on the town nor a vestal flout-35
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the dummy in their first infancy were below on the tearsheet,1
wringing and coughing, like brodar and histher. And the prank-2
quean nipped a paly one and lit up again and redcocks flew flack-3
ering from the hillcombs. And she made her witter before the4
wicked, saying: Mark the Twy, why do I am alook alike two poss5
of porterpease? And: Shut! says the wicked, handwording her6
madesty. So her madesty 'a forethought' set down a jiminy and7
took up a jiminy and all the lilipath ways to Woeman's Land she8
rain, rain, rain. And Jarl von Hoother bleethered atter her with9
a loud finegale: Stop domb stop come back with my earring stop.10
But the prankquean swaradid: Am liking it. And there was a wild11
old grannewwail that laurency night of starshootings somewhere12
in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years' walk in13
Turnlemeem and she punched the curses of cromcruwell with14
the nail of a top into the jiminy and she had her four larksical15
monitrix to touch him his tears and she provorted him to the16
onecertain allsecure and he became a tristian. So then she started17
raining, raining, and in a pair of changers, be dom ter, she was18
back again at Jarl von Hoother's and the Larryhill with her under19
her abromette. And why would she halt at all if not by the ward20
of his mansionhome of another nice lace for the third charm?21
And Jarl von Hoother had his hurricane hips up to his pantry-22
box, ruminating in his holdfour stomachs (Dare! O dare!), ant23
the jiminy Toughertrees and the dummy were belove on the24
watercloth, kissing and spitting, and roguing and poghuing, like25
knavepaltry and naivebride and in their second infancy. And the26
prankquean picked a blank and lit out and the valleys lay twink-27
ling. And she made her wittest in front of the arkway of trihump,28
asking: Mark the Tris, why do I am alook alike three poss of por-29
ter pease? But that was how the skirtmishes endupped. For like30
the campbells acoming with a fork lance of-lightning, Jarl von31
Hoother Boanerges himself, the old terror of the dames, came32
hip hop handihap out through the pikeopened arkway of his33
three shuttoned castles, in his broadginger hat and his civic chol-34
lar and his allabuff hemmed and his bullbraggin soxangloves35
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mien, we are in rearing of a norewhig. So weenybeeny-1
veenyteeny. Comsy see! Het wis if ee newt. Lissom! lissom!2
I am doing it. Hark, the corne entreats! And the larpnotes3
prittle.4
     It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld, 5
when Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts,6
when mulk mountynotty man was everybully and the first leal7
ribberrobber that ever had her ainway everybuddy to his love-8
saking eyes and everybilly lived alove with everybiddy else, and9
Jarl van Hoother had his burnt head high up in his lamphouse,10
laying cold hands on himself. And his two little jiminies, cousins11
of ourn, Tristopher and Hilary, were kickaheeling their dummy12
on the oil cloth flure of his homerigh, castle and earthenhouse.13
And, be dermot, who come to the keep of his inn only the niece-14
of-his-in-law, the prankquean. And the prankquean pulled a rosy15
one and made her wit foreninst the dour. And she lit up and fire-16
land was ablaze. And spoke she to the dour in her petty perusi-17
enne: Mark the Wans, why do I am alook alike a poss of porter-18
pease? And that was how the skirtmisshes began. But the dour19
handworded her grace in dootch nossow: Shut! So her grace20
o'malice kidsnapped up the jiminy Tristopher and into the shan-21
dy westerness she rain, rain, rain. And Jarl van Hoother war-22
lessed after her with soft dovesgall: Stop deef stop come back to23
my earin stop. But she swaradid to him: Unlikelihud. And there24
was a brannewail that same sabboath night of falling angles some-25
where in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years'26
walk in Tourlemonde and she washed the blessings of the love-27
spots off the jiminy with soap sulliver suddles and she had her28
four owlers masters for to tauch him his tickles and she convor-29
ted him to the onesure allgood and he became a luderman. So then30
she started to rain and to rain and, be redtom, she was back again31
at Jarl van Hoother's in a brace of samers and the jiminy with32
her in her pinafrond, lace at night, at another time. And where33
did she come but to the bar of his bristolry. And Jarl von Hoo-34
ther had his baretholobruised heels drowned in his cellarmalt,35
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under the ban of our infrarational senses fore the last milch-1
camel, the heartvein throbbing between his eyebrowns, has still to2
moor before the tomb of his cousin charmian where his date is3
tethered by the palm that's hers. But the horn, the drinking, the4
day of dread are not now. A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them,5
chap them, cut them up allways; leave them to terracook in the6
muttheringpot: and Gutenmorg with his cromagnom charter,7
tintingfast and great primer must once for omniboss step rub-8
rickredd out of the wordpress else is there no virtue more in al-9
cohoran. For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed10
of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints. Till ye finally11
(though not yet endlike) meet with the acquaintance of Mister12
Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little typtopies. Fillstup. So you13
need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry14
three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of15
Doublends Jined (may his forehead be darkened with mud who16
would sunder!) till Daleth, mahomahouma, who oped it closeth17
thereof the. Dor.18
     Cry not yet! There's many a smile to Nondum, with sytty 19
maids per man, sir, and the park's so dark by kindlelight. But20
look what you have in your handself! The movibles are scrawl-21
ing in motions, marching, all of them ago, in pitpat and zingzang22
for every busy eerie whig's a bit of a torytale to tell. One's upon23
a thyme and two's behind their lettice leap and three's among the24
strubbely beds. And the chicks picked their teeths and the domb-25
key he begay began. You can ask your ass if he believes it. And26
so cuddy me only wallops have heels. That one of a wife with27
folty barnets. For then was the age when hoops ran high. Of a28
noarch and a chopwife; of a pomme full grave and a fammy of29
levity; or of golden youths that wanted gelding; or of what the30
mischievmiss made a man do. Malmarriedad he was reverso-31
gassed by the frisque of her frasques and her prytty pyrrhique.32
Maye faye, she's la gaye this snaky woman! From that trippiery33
toe expectungpelick! Veil, volantine, valentine eyes. She's the34
very besch Winnie blows Nay on good. Flou inn, flow ann.35
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part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an1
allforabit. Here (please to stoop) are selveran cued peteet peas of2
quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make3
the tomtummy's pay roll. Right rank ragnar rocks and with these4
rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong. Wisha, wisha,5
whydidtha? Thik is for thorn that's thuck in its thoil like thum-6
fool's thraitor thrust for vengeance. What a mnice old mness it7
all mnakes! A middenhide hoard of objects! Olives, beets, kim-8
mells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. Owlets' eegs9
(O stoop to please!) are here, creakish from age and all now10
quite epsilene, and oldwolldy wobblewers, haudworth a wipe o11
grass. Sss! See the snake wurrums everyside! Our durlbin is12
sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular13
Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie rared up in the midst of the14
cargon of prohibitive pomefructs but along landed Paddy Wip-15
pingham and the his garbagecans cotched the creeps of them16
pricker than our whosethere outofman could quick up her whats-17
thats. Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the18
same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.19
     Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one 20
be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus one make a plaus-21
ible free and idim behind. Starting off with a big boaboa and three-22
legged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their23
mouths. And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue24
to con an we can till allhorrors eve. What a meanderthalltale to25
unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor26
and postproneauntisquattor! To say too us to be every tim, nick27
and larry of us, sons of the sod, sons, littlesons, yea and lealittle-28
sons, when usses not to be, every sue, siss and sally of us, dugters29
of Nan! Accusative ahnsire! Damadam to infinities30
     True there was in nillohs dieybos as yet no lumpend papeer 31
in the waste, and mightmountain Penn still groaned for the micies32
to let flee. All was of ancientry. You gave me a boot (signs on33
it!) and I ate the wind. I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and34
you went to the quod. But the world, mind, is, was and will be35
writing its own wrunes for ever, man, on all matters that fall36

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     Jute.     'Zmorde! 1
     Mutt.     Meldundleize! By the fearse wave behoughted. Des- 2
         pond's sung. And thanacestross mound have swollup 3
         them all. This ourth of years is not save brickdust 4
         and being humus the same roturns. He who runes 5
         may rede it on all fours. O'c'stle, n'wc'stle, tr'c'stle, 6
         crumbling! Sell me sooth the fare for Humblin! Hum- 7
         blady Fair. But speak it allsosiftly, moulder! Be in8
         your whisht!9
     Jute.     Whysht?10
     Mutt.     The gyant Forficules with Amni the fay.11
     Jute.     Howe?12
     Mutt.     Here is viceking's graab.13
     Jute.     Hwaad ! 14
     Mutt.     Ore you astoneaged, jute you? 15
     Jute.     Oye am thonthorstrok, thing mud. 16
     (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios 17
of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since 18
We and Thou had it out already) its world? It is the same told19
of all. Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They20
lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin. Thy thingdome is21
given to the Meades and Porsons. The meandertale, aloss and22
again, of our old Heidenburgh in the days when Head-in-Clouds23
walked the earth. In the ignorance that implies impression that24
knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that25
convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that26
adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that en-27
tails the ensuance of existentiality. But with a rush out of his28
navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vively-29
onview this; queer and it continues to be quaky. A hatch, a celt,30
an earshare the pourquose of which was to cassay the earthcrust at31
all of hours, furrowards, bagawards, like yoxen at the turnpaht.32
Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and33
arming bellicose figurines see here. Futhorc, this liffle effingee is for34
a firefing called a flintforfall. Face at the eased! O I fay! Face at the35
waist! Ho, you fie! Upwap and dump em, ace to ace! When a36