by James Joyce
2 A viking vernacular expression still used in the Summerhill district
for a
jerryhatted man of forty who puts two fingers into his boiling soupplate
and
licks them in turn to find out if there is enough mushroom catsup in the
mutton broth.
3 H’dk’fs’h’p’y.
4 Googlaa pluplu.
5 Tomley. The grown man. A butcher szewched him the bloughs and
braches. I’m chory to see P. Shuter.
Bet you fippence,
boxomeness of the bedelias 1 makes hobby-
PREAUSTERIC
anythesious,
hodge happy in his hole. 2 The store and
MAN AND HIS
there’s no pug-
charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne.-Riva-
PURSUIT OF
gatory, are yous
pool? Hod a brieck on it! But its piers eerie,
PAN-
game?
its span spooky, its toll but a till, its parapets
HYSTERIC
all peripateting. D’Oblong’s by his by. Which
WOMAN.
we all pass. Tons. In our snoo. Znore. While
we hickerwards the thicker. Schein. Schore.
Which assoars us from the murk of the mythe-
lated in the barrabelowther, bedevere butlered
table round, past Morningtop’s necessity and
Harington’s invention, to the clarience of the
childlight in the studiorium upsturts. Here
we’ll dwell on homiest powers, love at the
latch with novices nig and nag. The chorus:
the principals. For the rifocillation of their
inclination to the manifestation of irritation:
doldorboys and doll. 3 After sound, light and
heat, memory, will and understanding.
Here (the memories framed from walls are
minding) till wranglers for wringwrowdy
wready are, , (at gaze, respecting, four-
teenth baronet, meet, altrettanth bancorot,
chaff) and ere commence commencement cata-
launic when Aetius check chokewill Attil’s
gambit, (that buxon bruzeup, give it a burl!)
lead us seek, O june of eves the jenniest,
thou who fleeest flicklesome the fond fervid
frondeur to thickly thyself attach with thine
efteased ensuer, 4 ondrawer of our uncon-
scionable, flickerflapper fore our unter-
1 I believe in Dublin and the Sultan of Turkey.
2 I have heard this word used by Martin Halpin, an old gardener from the
Glens of Antrim who used to do odd jobs for my godfather, the Rev. B.B.
Brophy of Swords.
3 Ravens may rive so can dove deelish.
4 A question of pull.
There was a
drugged,1 lead us seek, lote us see, light us find,
URGES AND
sweet hopeful
let us missnot Maidadate, Mimosa Multimim-
WIDERURGES
called Cis.
etica, the maymeaminning of maimoomeining!
IN A PRIMI-
The Big Bear
Elpis, thou fountain of the greeces, all shall speer
TIVE SEPT.
bit the Sailor’s
theeward,2 from kongen in his canteenhus to
Only. Trouble,
knivers hind the knoll. Ausonius Audacior
trouble, trouble.
and gael, gillie, gall.3 Singalingalying. Storiella
Forening Unge
as she is syung. Whence followeup with end-
Kristlike Kvinne.
speaking nots for yestures, plutonically pur-
suant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty
Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas.
Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette,
unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves
us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs
time on the domisole,4 with a blewy blow and
a windigo. Where flash becomes word and
silents selfloud. To brace congeners, trebly
bounden and asservaged twainly. Adamman,5
Emhe, Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely
ogs Weib. Uwayoei! 6 So mag this sybilette be
our shibboleth that we may syllable her well!
Vetus may be occluded behind the mou in
Veto but Nova will be nearing as their radient
among the Nereids. A one of charmers, ay,
Una Unica, charmers, who, under the branches
of the elms, in shoes as yet unshent by stoni-
ness, wend, went, will wend a way of honey
myrrh and rambler roses mistmusk while still
the maybe mantles the meiblume or ever her
1 For Rose Point see Inishmacsaint.
2 Mannequins’ Pose.
3 Their holy presumption and hers sinfly desprit.
4 Anama anamaba anamabapa.
5 Only for he’s fathering law I could skewer that old one and slosh her
out
many’s the time but I thinks more of my pottles and ketts.
6 All abunk for Tarararat! Look slipper, soppyhat, we’ve a doss in the
manger.
Telltale me all
if have faded from the fleur,1 their arms
EARLY
of annaryllies.
enlocked, (ringrang, the chimes of sex appeal-
NOTIONS OF
Will you carry
ing as conchitas with sentas stray,2 rung!), all
ACQUIRED
my can and
thinking all of it, the It with an itch in it, the All
RIGHTS AND
fight the fairies?
every inch of it, the pleasure each will preen her
THE INFLU-
Allma Mathers,
for, the business each was bred to breed by.3
ENCE OF
Auctioneer.
Soon jemmijohns will cudgel about some
COLLECTIVE
Old Gavelkind
a rhythmatick or other over Browne and
TRADITION
the Gamper and
Nolan’s divisional tables whereas she, of
UPON THE
he’s as daff as
minions’ novence charily being cupid, for
INDIVIDUAL.
you’re erse.
mug’s wumping, grooser’s grubbiness, andt’s
avarice and grossopper’s grandegaffe, with her
tootpettypout of jemenfichue will sit and knit
on solfa sofa.4 Stew of the evening, booksyful
stew. And a bodikin a boss in the Thimble
Theatre. But all is her-inbourne. Intend. From
gramma’s grammar she has it that if there is a
third person, mascarine, phelinine or nuder,
being spoken abad it moods prosodes from a
person speaking to her second which is the
direct object that has been spoken to, with and
at. Take the dative with his oblative5 for, even
if obsolete, it is always of interest, so spake
gramma on the impetus of her imperative, only
mind your genderous towards his reflexives
such that I was to your grappa (Bott’s trousend,
hore a man uff!) when him was me hedon6
and mine, what the lewdy saying, his analec-
tual pygmyhop.7 There is comfortism in the
1 One must sell it to some one, the sacred name of love.
2 Making it up as we goes along.
3 The law of the jungerl.
4 Let me blush to think of all those halfwayhoist pullovers.
5 I’d like his pink’s cheek.
6 Frech devil in red hairing! So that’s wh
y you ran away to sea, Mrs
Lappy. Leap me, Locklaun, for you have sensed!
7 A washable lovable floatable doll.
Undante
knowledge that often hate on first hearing
umoroso.
comes of love by second sight. Have your
M. 50-50.
little sintalks in the dunk of subjunctions, dual
oþk þþàáoþ
in duel and prude with pruriel, but even the
ãþþiþþþ
aoriest chaparound whatever plaudered perfect
anent prettydotes and haec genua omnia may
perhaps chance to be about to be in the case to
be becoming a pale peterwright in spite of all
your tense accusatives whilstly you’re wall-
floored1 like your gerandiums for the better
half of a yearn or sob. It’s a wild’s kitten, my
dear, who can tell a wilkling from a warthog.
For you may be as practical as is predicable
but you must have the proper sort of accident
to meet that kind of a being with a difference.2
Flame at his fumbles but freeze on his fist.3
Every letter is a godsend, ardent Ares, brusque
Boreas and glib Ganymede like zealous Zeus,
the O’Meghisthest of all. To me or not to me.
Satis thy quest on. Werbungsap! Jeg suis, vos
wore a gentleman, thou arr, I am a quean. Is
a game over? The game goes on. Cookcook !
Search me. The beggar the maid the bigger
the mauler. And the greater the patrarc the
griefer the pinch. And that’s what your doctor
knows. O love it is the commonknounest thing
how it pashes the plutous and the paupe.4
Pop ! And egg she active or spoon she passive,
all them fine clauses in Lindley’s and Murrey’s
never braught the participle of a present to a
desponent hortatrixy, vindicatively I say it,
1 With her poodle feinting to be let off and feeling dead in herself. Is
love
worse living?
2 If she can’t follow suit Ren‚e goes to the pack.
3 Improper frictions is maledictions and mens uration makes me mad.
4 Llong and Shortts Primer of Black and White Wenchcraft.
I’ll go for that
from her postconditional future.1 Lumpsome
CONCOMI-
small polly if
is who lumpsum pays. Quantity counts though
TANCE OF
you’ll suck to
accents falter. Yoking apart and oblique ora-
COURAGE,
your lebbens-
tions parsed to one side, a brat, alanna, can
quatsch.
choose from so many, be he a sollicitor’s
O’Mara Farrell.
appendix, a pipe clerk or free functionist
Verschwindibus.
flyswatter, that perfect little cad, from the
Ulstria,
languors and weakness of limberlimbed lassi-
hood till the head, back and heartaches of
waxedup womanage and heaps on heaps of
other things too. Note the Respectable Irish
Distressed Ladies and the Merry Mustard
Frothblowers of Humphreystown Associa-
tions. Atac first, queckqueck quicks after.
Beware how in that hist subtaile of schlangder2
lies liaison to tease oreilles ! To vert embowed
set proper penchant. But learn from that ancient
tongue to be middle old modern to the minute.
A spitter that can be depended on. Though
Wonderlawn’s lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she
broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the
leafery, ours is mistery of pain.3 You may spin
on youthlit’s bike and multiplease your Mike
and Nike with your kickshoes on the algebrars
but, volve the virgil page and view, the O of
woman is long when burly those two muters
sequent her so from Nebob4 see you never
stray who’ll nimm you nice and nehm the day.
One hath just been areading, hath not one,
ya, ya, in their memoiries of Hireling’s puny
wars, end so, und all, ga, ga, of The O’Brien,
1 The gaggles all out.
2 He’s just bug nuts on white mate he hasn’t the teath nor the grits to
choo
and that’s what’s wrong with Lang Wang Wurm, old worbbling goesbelly.
3 Dear and I trust in all frivolity I may be pardoned for trespassing
but I
think I may add hell.
4 He is my all menkind of every desception.
The O’Connor, The Mac Loughlin and The
COUNSEL
Monastir,
