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Complete Works of James Joyce

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  rish soup all days.

  then will singingsing tomorrows gone and

  How matches

  yesters outcome as Satadays aftermoon lex

  metroosers?

  leap smiles on the twelvemonthsminding?

  Le h‚los tombaut

  Such is. Dear (name of desired subject, A.N.),

  soul sur la jambe

  well, and I go on to. Shlicksher. I and we

  de marche.

  (tender condolences for happy funeral, one

  if) so sorry to (mention person suppressed for

  the moment, F.M.). Well (enquiries after all-

  healths) how are you (question maggy). A

  lovely (introduce to domestic circles) pershan

  of cates. Shrubsher. Those pothooks mostly

  she hawks from Poppa Vere Foster but these

  curly mequeues are of Mippa’s moulding.

  Shrubsheruthr. (Wave gently in the ere turn-

  ing ptover.) Well, mabby (consolation of

  shopes) to soon air. With best from cinder

  Christinette if prints chumming, can be when

  desires Soldi, for asamples, backfronted or,

  if all, peethrolio or Get my Prize, using her

  flower or perfume or, if veryveryvery chum-

  ming, in otherwards, who she supposed adeal,

  kissists my exits. Shlicksheruthr. From Auburn

  chenlemagne. Pious and pure fair one, all has

  concomitated to this that she shall tread them

  lifetrees leaves whose silence hitherto has

  shone as sphere of silver fastalbarnstone, that

  fount Bandusian shall play liquick music and

  after odours sigh of musk. Blotsbloshblothe,

  one dear that was. Sleep in the water, drug at

  the fire, shake the dust off and dream your one

  who would give her sidecurls to. Till later

  Mai maintenante

  Lammas is led in by baith our washwives, a

  THE PART

  elle est venuse.

  weird of wonder tenebrous as that evil thorn-

  PLAYED BY

  Two Dons Johns

  garth, a field of faery blithe as this flowing wild.

  BELLETRI-

  Threes Totty

  Aujourd’hui comme aux temps le Pline et de

  PAX-BEL-

  Askins.

  Columelle la jacinthe se plait dans les Gaules,

  LUM.

  Also Spuke

  la pervenche en Illyrie, la marguerite sur les

  MUTUOMOR-

  Zerothruster.

  ruines de Numance 1 et pendant qu’autour d’elles

  PHOMUTA-

  A saxum shillum

  les villes ont chang‚ de maŒtres et de noms, que

  TION.

  for the sextum

  plusieurs sont entr‚es dans le n‚ant, que les

  SORTES VIR-

  but nothums for

  civilisations se sont choqu‚es et bris‚es, leurs

  GINIANAE.

  that parridge

  paisibles g‚n‚rations ont travers‚ les ages et sont

  INTERROGATION.

  preast.

  arriv‚es jusqu’… nous, fraŒches et riantes comme

  EXCLAMATION.

  aux jours des batailles. 2

  Margaritomancy! Hyacinthinous pervinci-

  veness ! Flowers. A cloud. But Bruto and

  Cassio are ware only of trifid tongues 3 the

  whispered wilfulness, (’tis demonal!) and sha-

  dows shadows multiplicating (il folsoletto nel

  falsoletto col fazzolotto dal fuzzolezzo), 4 to-

  tients quotients, they tackle their quarrel. Sicka-

  moor’s so woful sally. Ancient’s aerger. And

  eachway bothwise glory signs. What if she

  love Sieger less though she leave Ruhm moan?

  That’s how our oxyggent has gotten ahold of

  half their world. Moving about in the free of

  the air and mixing with the ruck. Enten eller,

  either or.

  And!

  Nay, rather!

  1 The nasal foss of our natal folkfarthers so so much now for Valsing-

  giddyrex and his grand arks day triump.

  2 Translout that gaswind into turfish, Teague, that’s a good bog and

  you,

  Thady, poliss it off, there’s nateswipe, on to your blottom pulper.

  3 You daredevil donnelly, I love your piercing lots of lies and your

  flashy

  foreign mail so here’s my cowrie card, I dalgo, with all my exes, wise

  and sad.

  4 All this Mitchells is a niggar for spending and I will go to the

  length of

  seeing that one day Big Mig will be nickleless himself.

  Tricks stunts.

  With sobs for his job, with tears

  ANTITHESIS OF AMBI-

  Truckeys’ cant

  for his toil, with horror for his squalor

  DUAL ANTICIPATION.

  for dactyl and

  but with pep for his perdition,1 lo, the

  THE MIND FACTORY,

  spondee.

  boor plieth as the laird hireth him.

  ITS GIVE AND TAKE.

  Panoplous pere-

  Boon on begyndelse.

  AUSPICIUM.

  grine pifflicative

  At maturing daily gloryaims! 2

  AUGURIA.

  pomposity.

  A flink dab for a freck dive and a stern poise

  DIVINITY

  for a swift pounce was frankily at the manual

  NOT DEITY

  arith sure enough which was the bekase he

  THE UNCER-

  knowed from his cradle, no bird better, why

  TAINTY JUS-

  his fingures were giving him whatfor to fife

  TIFIED BY

  with. First, by observation, there came boko

  OUR CERTI-

  and nigh him wigworms and nigh him tittlies

  TUDE.

  and nigh him cheekadeekchimple and nigh

  EXAMPLES.

  him pickpocket with pickpocketpumb, pick-

  pocketpoint, pickpocketprod, pickpocket-

  promise and upwithem. Holy Joe in lay

  Eden. 3 And anyhows always after them the

  dimpler he weighed the fonder fell he of his

  null four lovedroyd curdinals, his element cur-

  dinal numen and his enement curdinal marryng

  and his epulent curdinal weisswassh and his

  eminent curdinal Kay O’Kay. Always would

  he be reciting of them, hoojahs koojahs, up by

  rota, in his Fanden’s catachysm from fursed to

  laced, quickmarch to decemvers, so as to pin the

  tenners, thumbs down. And anon an aldays,

  strues yerthere, would he wile arecreating em

  om lumerous ways, caiuscounting in the

  scale of pin puff pive piff, piff puff pive poo,

  poo puff pive pree, pree puff pive pfoor, pfoor

  puff pive pippive, poopive, 4 Niall Dhu,

  1 While I’ll wind the wildwoods’ bluckbells among my window’s weeds.

  2 Lawdy Dawdy Simpers.

  3 But where, O where, is me lickle dig done?

  4 That’s his whisper waltz I like from Pigott’s with that Lancydancy

  step.

  Stop.

  Non plus ulstra,

  Foughty Unn, Enoch Thortig, endso one, like

  Elba, nec, cashel-

  to pitch of your cap, pac, on to tin tall spilli-

  bum tuum.

  cans. 1 To sum, borus pew notus pew eurus

  Dondderwedder

  pew zipher. Ace, deuce, tricks, quarts, quims.

  Kyboshicksal

  Mumtiplay of course and carry to their whole

  number. Wh
ile on the other hand, traduced

  by their comedy nominator to the loaferst

  terms for their aloquent parts, sexes, suppers,

  oglers, novels and dice. 2 He could find (the

  rakehelly!) by practice the valuse of thine-to-

  mine articles with no reminder for an equality

  of relations and, with the helpings from his

  tables, improduce fullmin to trumblers, links

  unto chains, weys in Nuffolk till tods of

  Yorek, oozies ad libs and several townsends,

  several hundreds, civil-to-civil imperious

  gallants into gells (Irish), bringing alliving

  stone allaughing down to grave clothnails and

  a league of archers, fools and lurchers under

  the rude rule of fumb. What signifieth whole

  that 3 but, be all the prowess of ten, ’tis as

  strange to relate he, nonparile to rede, rite and

  reckan, caught allmeals dullmarks for his

  nucleuds and alegobrew. They wouldn’t took

  bearings no how anywheres. O them dodd-

  hunters and allanights, aabs and baas for

  agnomes, yees and zees for incognits, bate

  him up jerrybly! Worse nor herman doror-

  rhea. Give you the fantods, seemed to him.

  They ought to told you every last word first

  stead of trying every which way to kinder

  smear it out poison long. Show that the

  1 Twelve buttles man, twentyeight bows of curls, forty bonnets woman

  and every youthfully yours makes alleven add the hundred.

  2 Gamester Damester in the road to Rouen, he grows more like his deed

  every die.

  3 Slash-the-Pill lifts the pellet. Run, Phoenix, run!

  A stodge An-

  median, hce che ech, interecting at royde

  gleshman has

  angles the parilegs of a given obtuse one bis-

  been worked by

  cuts both the arcs that are in curveachord

  eccentricity.

  behind. Brickbaths. The family umbroglia.

  An oxygon is no-

  A Tullagrove pole 1 to the Height of County

  turally reclined

  Fearmanagh has a septain inclinaison 2 and the

  to rest.

  graphplot for all the functions in Lower

  Ba be bi bo bum.

  County Monachan, whereat samething is rivi-

  sible by nighttim, may be involted into the

  zeroic couplet, palls pell inhis heventh glike

  noughty times ì , find, if you are not literally

  cooefficient, how minney combinaisies and per-

  mutandies can be played on the international

  surd! pthwndxrclzp!, hids cubid rute being

  extructed, taking anan illitterettes,ififif at a tom.

  Answers, (for teasers only). 3 Ten, twent, thirt,

  see, ex and three icky totchty ones. From

  solation to solution. Imagine the twelve

  deaferended dumbbawls of the whowl above-

  beugled to be the contonuation through

  regeneration of the urutteration of the word

  in pregross. It follows that, if the two ante-

  sedents be bissyclitties and the three come-

  seekwenchers trundletrikes, then, Aysha Lali-

  pat behidden on the footplate, Big Whiggler 4

  restant upsittuponable, the NCR 5 presents to

  us (tandem year at lasted length!) an otto-

  mantic turquo-indaco of pictorial shine by

  pictorial shimmer so long as, gad of the gidday,

  pictorial summer, viridorefulvid, lits asheen,

  1 Dideney, Dadeney, Dudeney, O, I’d know that putch on your poll.

  2 That is tottinghim in his boots.

  3 Come all ye hapney coachers and support the richview press.

  4 Braham Baruch he married his cook to Massach McKraw her uncle-in-

  law who wedded his widow to Hjalmar Kjaer who adapted his daughter to

  Braham the Bear. V for Wadlock, P for shift, H for Lona the Konkubine.

  5 A gee is just a jay on the jaunts cowsway.

  Finnfinnotus of

  but (lenz alack lends a lot), if this habby cyclic

  Cincinnati.

  erdor be outraciously enviolated by a mierelin

  Arthurgink’s

  roundtableturning, like knuts in maze, the zitas

  hussies and

  runnind hare and dart 1 with the yeggs in

  Everguin’s men.

  their muddle, like a seven of wingless arrows,

  Nom de nombres!

  hodgepadge, thump, kick and hurry, all boy

  The balbearians.

  more missis blong him he race quickfeller all

  same hogglepiggle longer house blong him, 2

  while the catched and dodged exarx seems

  himmulteemiously to beem (he wins her hend!

  he falls to tail!) the ersed ladest mand 3 and

  (uhu and uhud!) the losed farce on erro-

 

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