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for in the byways of high improvidence that's what makes life-1
work leaving and the world's a cell for citters to cit in. Let young2
wimman run away with the story and let young min talk smooth3
behind the butteler's back. She knows her knight's duty while4
Luntum sleeps. Did ye save any tin? says he. Did I what? with5
a grin says she. And we all like a marriedann because she is mer-6
cenary. Though the length of the land lies under liquidation7
(floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebush on this glau-8
brous phace of Herrschuft Whatarwelter she'll loan a vesta and9
hire some peat and sarch the shores her cockles to heat and she'll10
do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on. Paff. To puff the11
blaziness on. Poffpoff. And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty12
times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand13
remonstrancers there'll be iggs for the brekkers come to mourn-14
him, sunny side up with care. So true is it that therewhere's a15
turnover the tay is wet too and when you think you ketch sight16
of a hind make sure but you're cocked by a hin.17
     Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, 18
fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe, we may take our review19
of the two mounds to see nothing of the himples here as at else-20
where, by sixes and sevens, like so many heegills and collines,21
sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swisha-22
wish satins and their taffetaffe tights, playing Wharton's Folly,23
at a treepurty on the planko in the purk. Stand up, mickos!24
Make strake for minnas ! By order, Nicholas Proud. We may see25
and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off26
Corkhill or the bergamoors of Arbourhill or the bergagambols27
of Summerhill or the bergincellies of Miseryhill or the country-28
bossed bergones of Constitutionhill though every crowd has its29
several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each30
harmonical has a point of its own, Olaf's on the rise and Ivor's31
on the lift and Sitric's place's between them. But all they are all32
there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve33
and salve life's robulous rebus, hopping round his middle like34
kippers on a griddle, O, as he lays dormont from the macroborg35
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The three of crows have flapped it southenly, kraaking of de1
baccle to the kvarters of that sky whence triboos answer; Wail,2
tis well! She niver comes out when Thon's on shower or when3
Thon's flash with his Nixy girls or when Thon's blowing toom-4
cracks down the gaels of Thon. No nubo no! Neblas on you liv!5
Her would be too moochy afreet. Of Burymeleg and Bindme-6
rollingeyes and all the deed in the woe. Fe fo fom! She jist does7
hopes till byes will be byes. Here, and it goes on to appear now,8
she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother,9
a pringlpik in the ilandiskippy, with peewee and powwows10
in beggybaggy on her bickybacky and a flick flask fleckflinging11
its pixylighting pacts' huemeramybows, picking here, pecking12
there, pussypussy plunderpussy. But it's the armitides toonigh, 13
militopucos, and toomourn we wish for a muddy kissmans to the14
minutia workers and there's to be a gorgeups truce for happinest15
childher everwere. Come nebo me and suso sing the day we16
sallybright. She's burrowed the coacher's headlight the better to17
pry (who goes cute goes siocur and shoos aroun) and all spoiled18
goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy19
spattees and flasks of all nations, clavicures and scampulars, maps,20
keys and woodpiles of haypennies and moonled brooches with21
bloodstaned breeks in em, boaston nightgarters and masses of22
shoesets and nickelly nacks and foder allmicheal and a lugly parson23
of cates and howitzer muchears and midgers and maggets, ills and24
ells with loffs of toffs and pleures of bells and the last sigh that25
come fro the hart (bucklied!) and the fairest sin the sunsaw26
(that's cearc!). With Kiss. Kiss Criss. Cross Criss. Kiss Cross.27
Undo lives 'end. Slain.28
     How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly fore- 29
bidden, to steal our historic presents from the past postpropheti-30
cals so as to will make us all lordy heirs and ladymaidesses of a31
pretty nice kettle of fruit. She is livving in our midst of debt and32
laffing through all plores for us (her birth is uncontrollable), with33
a naperon for her mask and her sabboes kickin arias (so sair! so34
solly!) if yous ask me and I saack you. Hou! Hou! Gricks may35
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of the lipoleums, Toffeethief, that spy on the Willingdone from1
his big white harse, the Capeinhope. Stonewall Willingdone2
is an old maxy montrumeny. Lipoleums is nice hung bushel-3
lors. This is hiena hinnessy laughing alout at the Willing-4
done. This is lipsyg dooley krieging the funk from the hinnessy.5
This is the hinndoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the6
hinnessy. Tip. This is the wixy old Willingdone picket up the7
half of the threefoiled hat of lipoleums fromoud of the bluddle8
filth. This is the hinndoo waxing ranjymad for a bombshoob.9
This is the Willingdone hanking the half of the hat of lipoleums10
up the tail on the buckside of his big white harse. Tip. That was11
the last joke of Willingdone. Hit, hit, hit! This is the same white12
harse of the Willingdone, Culpenhelp, waggling his tailoscrupp13
with the half of a hat of lipoleums to insoult on the hinndoo see-14
boy. Hney, hney, hney! (Bullsrag! Foul!) This is the seeboy,15
madrashattaras, upjump and pumpim, cry to the Willingdone:16
Ap Pukkaru! Pukka Yurap! This is the Willingdone, bornstable17
ghentleman, tinders his maxbotch to the cursigan Shimar Shin.18
Basucker youstead! This is the dooforhim seeboy blow the whole19
of the half of the hat of lipoleums off of the top of the tail on the20
back of his big wide harse. Tip (Bullseye! Game!) How Copen-21
hagen ended. This way the museyroom. Mind your boots goan22
out.23
     Phew! 24
     What a warm time we were in there but how keling is here the 25
airabouts! We nowhere she lives but you mussna tell annaone for26
the lamp of Jig-a-Lanthern! It's a candlelittle houthse of a month27
and one windies. Downadown, High Downadown. And num-28
mered quaintlymine. And such reasonable weather too ! The wa-29
grant wind's awalt'zaround the piltdowns and on every blasted30
knollyrock (if you can spot fifty I spy four more) there's that31
gnarlybird ygathering, a runalittle, doalittle, preealittle, pouralittle,32
wipealittle, kicksalittle, severalittle, eatalittle, whinealittle, kenalittle,33
helfalittle, pelfalittle gnarlybird. A verytableland of bleakbardfields!34
Under his seven wrothschields lies one, Lumproar. His glav toside35
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is me Belchum sneaking his phillippy out of his most Awful1
Grimmest Sunshat Cromwelly. Looted. This is the jinnies' hast-2
ings dispatch for to irrigate the Willingdone. Dispatch in thin3
red lines cross the shortfront of me Belchum. Yaw, yaw, yaw!4
Leaper Orthor. Fear siecken! Fieldgaze thy tiny frow. Hugact-5
ing. Nap. That was the tictacs of the jinnies for to fontannoy the6
Willingdone. Shee, shee, shee! The jinnies is jillous agincourting7
all the lipoleums. And the lipoleums is gonn boycottoncrezy onto8
the one Willingdone. And the Willingdone git the band up. This9
is bode Belchum, bonnet to busby, breaking his secred word with a10
ball up his ear to the Willingdone. This is the Willingdone's hur-11
old dispitchback. Dispitch desployed on the regions rare of me12
Belchum. Salamangra! Ayi, ayi, ayi! Cherry jinnies. Figtreeyou!13
Damn fairy ann, Voutre. Willingdone. That was the first joke of14
Willingdone, tic for tac. Hee, hee, hee! This is me Belchum in15
his twelvemile cowchooks, weet, tweet and stampforth foremost,16
footing the camp for the jinnies. Drink a sip, drankasup, for he's17
as sooner buy a guinness than he'd stale store stout. This is Roo-18
shious balls. This is a ttrinch. This is mistletropes. This is Canon19
Futter with the popynose. After his hundred days' indulgence.20
This is the blessed. Tarra's widdars! This is jinnies in the bonny21
bawn blooches. This is lipoleums in the rowdy howses. This is the22
Willingdone, by the splinters of Cork, order fire. Tonnerre!23
(Bullsear! Play!) This is camelry, this is floodens, this is the24
solphereens in action, this is their mobbily, this is panickburns.25
Almeidagad! Arthiz too loose! This is Willingdone cry. Brum!26
Brum! Cumbrum! This is jinnies cry. Underwetter! Goat27
strip Finnlambs! This is jinnies rinning away to their ouster-28
lists dowan a bunkersheels. With a nip nippy nip and a trip trip-29
py trip so airy. For their heart's right there. Tip. This is me Bel-30
chum's tinkyou tankyou silvoor plate for citchin the crapes in31
the cool of his canister. Poor the pay! This is the bissmark of the32
marathon merry of the jinnies they left behind them. This is the33
Willingdone branlish his same marmorial tallowscoop Sophy-34
Key-Po for his royal divorsion on the rinnaway jinnies. Gam-35
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enjoyable of our mounding's mass, now Wallinstone national1
museum, with, in some greenish distance, the charmful water-2
loose country and the two quitewhite villagettes who hear show3
of themselves so gigglesomes minxt the follyages, the prettilees!4
Penetrators are permitted into the museomound free. Welsh and5
the Paddy Patkinses, one shelenk! Redismembers invalids of old6
guard find poussepousse pousseypram to sate the sort of their butt.7
For her passkey supply to the janitrix, the mistress Kathe. Tip.8
     This the way to the museyroom. Mind your hats goan in! 9
Now yiz are in the Willingdone Museyroom. This is a Prooshi-10
ous gunn. This is a ffrinch. Tip. This is the flag of the Prooshi-11
ous, the Cap and Soracer. This is the bullet that byng the flag of12
the Prooshious. This is the ffrinch that fire on the Bull that bang13
the flag of the Prooshious. Saloos the Crossgunn! Up with your14
pike and fork! Tip. (Bullsfoot! Fine!) This is the triplewon hat of15
Lipoleum. Tip. Lipoleumhat. This is the Willingdone on his16
same white harse, the Cokenhape. This is the big Sraughter Wil-17
lingdone, grand and magentic in his goldtin spurs and his ironed18
dux and his quarterbrass woodyshoes and his magnate's gharters19
and his bangkok's best and goliar's goloshes and his pullupon-20
easyan wartrews. This is his big wide harse. Tip. This is the three21
lipoleum boyne grouching down in the living detch. This is an22
inimyskilling inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy, stoop-23
ing. This is the bog lipoleum mordering the lipoleum beg. A24
Gallawghurs argaumunt. This is the petty lipoleum boy that25
was nayther bag nor bug. Assaye, assaye! Touchole Fitz Tuo-26
mush. Dirty MacDyke. And Hairy O'Hurry. All of them27
arminus-varminus. This is Delian alps. This is Mont Tivel,28
this is Mont Tipsey, this is the Grand Mons Injun. This is the29
crimealine of the alps hooping to sheltershock the three lipoleums.30
This is the jinnies with their legahorns feinting to read in their31
handmade's book of stralegy while making their war undisides32
the Willingdone. The jinnies is a cooin her hand and the jinnies is33
a ravin her hair and the Willingdone git the band up. This is big34
Willingdone mormorial tallowscoop Wounderworker obscides35
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rockbound (hoahoahoah!) in swimswamswum and all the livvy-1
long night, the delldale dalppling night, the night of bluerybells,2
her flittaflute in tricky trochees (O carina! O carina!) wake him.3
With her issavan essavans and her patterjackmartins about all4
them inns and ouses. Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a tea-5
ry turty Taubling. Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs6
á gross if we are, about to believe. So pool the begg and pass the7
kish for crawsake. Omen. So sigh us. Grampupus is fallen down8
but grinny sprids the boord. Whase on the joint of a desh? Fin-9
foefom the Fush. Whase be his baken head? A loaf of Singpan-10
try's Kennedy bread. And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?11
A glass of Danu U'Dunnell's foamous olde Dobbelin ayle. But,12
lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through13
that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for14
he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene.15
Almost rubicund Salmosalar, ancient fromout the ages of the Ag-16
apemonides, he is smolten in our mist, woebecanned and packt17
away. So that meal's dead off for summan, schlook, schlice and18
goodridhirring.19
     Yet may we not see still the brontoichthyan form outlined a- 20
slumbered, even in our own nighttime by the sedge of the trout-21
ling stream that Bronto loved and Brunto has a lean on. Hic cubat22
edilis. Apud libertinam parvulam. Whatif she be in flags or flitters,23
reekierags or sundyechosies, with a mint of mines or beggar a24
pinnyweight. Arrah, sure, we all love little Anny Ruiny, or, we25
mean to say, lovelittle Anna Rayiny, when unda her brella, mid26
piddle med puddle, she ninnygoes nannygoes nancing by. Yoh!27
Brontolone slaaps, yoh snoores. Upon Benn Heather, in Seeple28
Isout too. The cranic head on him, caster of his reasons, peer yu-29
thner in yondmist. Whooth? His clay feet, swarded in verdigrass,30
stick up starck where he last fellonem, by the mund of the maga-31
zine wall, where our maggy seen all, with her sisterin shawl.32
While over against this belles' alliance beyind Ill Sixty, ollol-33
lowed ill! bagsides of the fort, bom, tarabom, tarabom, lurk the34
ombushes, the site of the lyffing-in-wait of the upjock and hock-35
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blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi-1
busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies2
snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the3
hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers,4
homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud5
murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may6
and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn-7
ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did8
shake. (There was a wall of course in erection) Dimb! He stot-9
tered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom,10
mastabadtomm, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For11
whole the world to see.12
     Shize? I should shee! Macool, Macool, orra whyi deed ye diie? 13
of a trying thirstay mournin? Sobs they sighdid at Fillagain's14
chrissormiss wake, all the hoolivans of the nation, prostrated in15
their consternation and their duodisimally profusive plethora of16
ululation. There was plumbs and grumes and cheriffs and citherers17
and raiders and cinemen too. And the all gianed in with the shout-18
most shoviality. Agog and magog and the round of them agrog.19
To the continuation of that celebration until Hanandhunigan's20
extermination! Some in kinkin corass, more, kankan keening.21
Belling him up and filling him down. He's stiff but he's steady is22
Priam Olim ! 'Twas he was the dacent gaylabouring youth. Sharpen23
his pillowscone, tap up his bier! E'erawhere in this whorl would ye24
hear sich a din again? With their deepbrow fundigs and the dusty25
fidelios. They laid him brawdawn alanglast bed. With a bockalips26
of finisky fore his feet. And a barrowload of guenesis hoer his head.27
Tee the tootal of the fluid hang the twoddle of the fuddled, O !28
     Hurrah, there is but young gleve for the owl globe wheels in 29
view which is tautaulogically the same thing. Well, Him a being30
so on the flounder of his bulk like an overgrown babeling, let wee31
peep, see, at Hom, well, see peegee ought he ought, platterplate. 32
Hum ! From Shopalist to Bailywick or from ashtun to baronoath33
or from Buythebanks to Roundthehead or from the foot of the34
bill to ireglint's eye he calmly extensolies. And all the way (a35
horn!) from fiord to fjell his baywinds' oboboes shall wail him36

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Flußgefließe, schleunigst Ev’ und Adam passiert, vom Strand­gestreun zum Buchtgebeug, führt uns im commundiösen Wickelwirken des Rezirkulierens zurück zur Burg von Howth con Entourage.

Sir Tristram, Widerholer d’amoore, von jenseits der Kurzsee, war passimkorps aus Nordarmorika rückgelangt an diese Seite den rauhen Isthmus von Kleineuropa um seinen penisolieren Krieg zu fehderführen: noch hatten Topsawyers Felsen am Oconeelauf einanders aufgeworfen zu Laurensbezirksgeäugiern während sie die ganze Zeit ihre Unzoll verdopplinten: noch neStimmede aus deFeuerne michsiemaschsie blaßgebalgt um Dubistpaetrick taufzu­taufen: noch nicht, obwohl hirschnell danach, hatte ein Knirps­kniff einen dünkelnobelalten Isaak butterseicht bedickerendet: noch nicht, obwohl man’s ja mag vannerstdie Eiteln kleiden, zürnten sosie Schwesthern zweinem Nathaundjoe. Nücht einen Viertelscheffel von Pas Malz hatte Jhem oder Shen bis zum Boginnlicht gebraut und rötaurig Ende zum Gegenbrauen war allerherund zu sehen auf der Aquafratz.

© Friedhelm Rathjen

Entnommen aus:

James Joyce: Winnegans Fake. Aus dem Spätwerk. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Friedhelm Rathjen. Südwesthörn: Edition ReJoyce 2012, S. 11.

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next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec-1
titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and2
with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter-3
ing down.4
     Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- 5
laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with6
ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned.7
His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second.8
Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister9
Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and,10
O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha,11
Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!12
     What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday 13
this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness14
to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive15
ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that16
would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of17
heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sus-18
tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and19
before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and20
at the fading of the stars ! For a nod to the nabir is better than wink21
to the wabsanti. Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing22
bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch-23
bracken shall decide. Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday. She24
has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the25
dreamydeary. Heed! Heed ! It may half been a missfired brick, as26
some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back27
promises, as others looked at it. (There extand by now one thou-28
sand and one stories, all told, of the same). But so sore did abe29
ite ivvy's holired abbles, (what with the wallhall's horrors of rolls-30
rights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers,31
autokinotons, hippohobbilies, streetfleets, tournintaxes, mega-32
phoggs, circuses and wardsmoats and basilikerks and aeropagods33
and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and34
the mecklenburk bitch bite at his ear and the merlinburrow bur-35
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     What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy- 1
gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax!Ualu2
Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still3
out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata-4
pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie5
Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear!6
Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill-7
killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired8
and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab-9
solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng10
voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the11
duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and12
body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of13
soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks14
of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if15
you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the16
pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.17
     Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- 18
rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar-19
back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers20
or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely21
struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere22
he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat-23
er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so24
that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!)25
and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi-26
fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the27
banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie28
ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part29
inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in30
grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like31
Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab-32
les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the33
liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days34
to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth35
of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from36