FINNEGANS WAKE

James Joyce

 

Book II

chapter 2

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    As we there are where are we are we there UNDE ET UBI.
from tomtittot to teetootomtotalitarian. Tea
tea too oo.
With his broad     Whom will comes over. Who to caps ever. SIC.
and hairy face, And howelse do we hook our hike to find that
to Ireland a pint of porter place? Am shot, says the big-
disgrace. guard.1
    Whence. Quick lunch by our left, wheel, IMAGINABLE
Menly about to where. Long Livius Lane, mid Mezzofanti ITINERARY
peebles. Mall, diagonising Lavatery Square, up Tycho THROUGH
Brache Crescent,2 shouldering Berkeley Alley, THE
Don't retch meat querfixing Gainsborough Carfax, under Guido PARTICULAR
fat salt lard d'Arezzo's Gadeway, by New Livius Lane till UNIVERSAL.
sinks down (and where we whiled while we whithered. Old
out). Vico Roundpoint. But fahr, be fear! And
natural, simple, slavish, filial. The marriage of
Montan wetting his moll we know, like any
enthewsyass cuckling a hoyden3 in her rougey
 

 

        1 Rawmeash, quoshe with her girlic teangue. If old Herod with the Corm-
well's eczema was to go for me like he does Snuffler whatever about his blue
canaries I'd do nine months for his beaver beard.
       2 Mater Mary Mercerycordial of the Dripping Nipples, milk's a queer
arrangement.
        3 Real life behind the floodlights as shown by the best exponents of a royal
divorce.

 

 

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gipsylike chinkaminx pulshandjupeyjade and
her petsybluse indecked o' voylets.1 When
who was wist was ware. En elv, et fjaell. And
the whirr of the whins humming us howe.
His hume. Hencetaking tides we haply return,
trumpeted by prawns and ensigned with sea-
kale, to befinding ourself when old is said in
one and maker mates with made (O my!),
having conned the cones and meditated the
mured and pondered the pensils and ogled the
olymp and delighted in her dianaphous and
cacchinated behind his culosses, before a
Swiney Tod, ye mosoleum. Length Withought Breath, of him,
Daimon Barbar!   a chump of the evums, upshoot of picnic or
stupor out of sopor, Cave of Kids or Hyma-
nian Glattstoneburg, denary, danery, donnery,
Dig him in the domm, who, entiringly as he continues highly-
rubsh! fictional, tumulous under his chthonic exterior
Ungodly old Ard- but plain Mr Tumulty in muftilife,2 in his an-
rey, Cronwall tisipiences as in his recognisances, is, (Dominic
beeswaxing the Directus) a manyfeast munificent more mob
convulsion box. than man.
    Ainsoph,3 this upright one, with that CONSTITU-  
noughty besighed him zeroine. To see in his TION OF THE
horrorscup he is mehrkurios than saltz of CONSTITU-  
sulphur. Terror of the noonstruck by day, TIONABLE AS
cryptogam of each nightly bridable. But, to CONSTITU- 
speak broken heaventalk, is he? Who is he? TIONAL. 
Whose is he? Why is he? Howmuch is he?
Which is he? When is he? Where is he?4 How
is he? And what the decans is there about him
 

 

            1 When we play dress grownup at alla ludo poker you'll be happnessised 
    to feel how fetching I can look in clingarounds.
            2 Kellywick, Longfellow's Lodgings, House of Comments III, Cake Walk, 
    Amusing Avenue, Salt Hill, Co. Mahogany, Izalond, Terra Firma. 
            3 Groupname for grapejuice. 
            4 Bhing, said her burglar's head, soto poce. 

 

 

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anyway, the decemt man? Easy, calm your
haste! Approach to lead our passage!
This bridge is upper. PROBA-
Cross. POSSIBLE
Thus come to castle. PROLEGO-
Knock.1 MENA TO
A password, thanks. IDEAREAL
Yes, pearse. HISTORY.
Well, all be dumbed!
O really? 2
Swing the banjo, Hoo cavedin earthwight
bantams, bounce- At furscht kracht of thunder. 3
the-baller's When shoo, his flutterby,
blown to fook. Was netted and named.4
Thsight near Erdnacrusha, requiestress, wake em!
left me eyes when And let luck's puresplutterall lucy at
I seen her put ease! 5
thounce otay To house as wise fool ages builded.
ithpot. Sow byg eat. 6
    Staplering to tether to, steppingstone to GNOSIS OF
Quartandwds. mount by, as the Boote's at Pickardstown. PRECREATE
And that skimmelk steed still in the ground- DETERMINA-
loftfan. As over all. Or be these wingsets leaned TION.
to the outwalls, beastskin trophies of booth AGNOSIS OF
of Baws the balsamboards? 7 Burials be bally- POSTCREATE
houraised! So let Bacchus e'en call! Inn inn! DETER-
Tickets for the Inn inn! Where. The babbers ply the pen. MINISM.
Tailwaggers The bibbers drang the den. The papplicom,
Terrierpuppy the pubblicam he's turning tin for ten. From
Raffle.
 

 
                   1 Yussive smirte and ye mermon answerth from his beelyingplace below
          the tightmark, Gotahelv!
                   2 O Evol, kool in the salg and ees how Dozi pits what a drows er.
                   3 A goodrid croven in a tynwalled tub.
                   4 Apis amat aram. Luna legit librum. Pulla petit pascua.
                   5 And after dinn to shoot the shades.
                   6 Says blistered Mary Achinhead to beautifed Tummy Tullbutt.
                   7 Begge. To go the Begge. To go to Begge and to be sure to reminder
          Begge. Goodbeg, buggey Begge.

 

 

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seldomers that most frequent him. That same      
erst crafty hakemouth which under the assumed
name of Ignotus Loquor, of foggy old,
harangued bellyhooting fishdrunks on their
favorite stamping ground, from a father theo-
balder brake.1 And Egyptus, the incenstrobed,
Mars speaking. as Cyrus heard of him? And Major A. Shaw
after he got the miner smellpex? And old
Whiteman self, the blighty blotchy, beyond
the bays, hope of ostrogothic and ottomanic
faith converters, despair of Pandemia's post-
wartem plastic surgeons? But is was all so
long ago. Hispano - Cathayan - Euxine, Castil -
lian - Emeratic - Hebridian, Espanol - Cymric -
Smith, no home. Helleniky? Rolf the Ganger, Rough the Gang-
ster, not a feature alike and the face the same.2
Pastimes are past times. Now let bygones
be bei Gunne's. Saaleddies er it in this warken
werden, mine boerne, and it vild need older-
wise 3 since primal made alter in garden of
Idem. The tasks above are as the flasks below,
saith the emerald canticle of Hermes and all's
Non quod sed loth and pleasestir, are we told, on excellent
quiat inkbottle authority, solarsystemised, seriol-
cosmically, in a more and more almightily
expanding universe under one, there is rhyme-
less reason to believe, original sun. Securely
judges orb terrestrial. 4 Haud certo ergo. But
Hearasay in O felicitous culpability, sweet bad cess to you
paradox lust. for an archetypt!                    
 

 
                    1 Huntler and Pumar's animal alphabites, the first in the world from
          aab to zoo.
                    2 We dont hear the booming cursowarries, we wont fear the fletches of
          fightning, we float the meditarenias and come bask to the isle we love in
          spice. Punt.
                    3 And this once golden bee a cimadoro.
                    4 And he was a gay Lutharius anyway, Sinobiled. You can tell by their
          extraordinary clothes.

 

 

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    Honour commercio's energy yet aid the ARCHAIC  
linkless proud, the plurable with everybody ZELOTYPIA  
and ech with pal, this ernst of Allsap's ale AND THE  
halliday of roaring month with its two lunar ODIUM TEL-  
eclipses and its three saturnine settings! Horn EOLOGICUM.  
of Heatthen, highbrowed! Brook of Life, back-
frish! Amnios amnium, fluminiculum flami-
nulinorum! We seek the Blessed One, the
Harbourer - cum - Enheritance. Even Canaan
the Hateful. Ever a-going, ever a-coming.
Between a stare and a sough. Fossilisation, all
branches.1 Wherefore Petra sware unto Ulma:
Bags.   By the mortals' frost! And Ulma sware unto
Balls.   Petra: On my veiny life!
    In these places sojournemus, where Eblinn THE LOCALI-  
water, leased of carr and fen, leaving amont her SATION OF  
shoals and salmen browses, whom inshore LEGEND  
breezes woo with freshets, windeth to her LEADING TO  
broads. A phantom city, phaked of philim THE LEGALI-  
pholk, bowed and sould for a four of hundreds SATION OF  
of manhood in their three and threescore LATIFUND-  
Move up,   fylkers for a price partitional of twenty six and ISM.  
Mackinerny!   six. By this riverside, on our sunnybank,2 how
Make room for   buona the vista, by Santa Rosa! A field of May,
Muckinurney!   the very vale of Spring. Orchards here are
lodged; sainted lawrels evremberried. You
have a hoig view ashwald, a glen of marrons
and of thorns. Gleannaulinn, Ardeevin: purty
glint of plaising height. This Norman court at
boundary of the ville, yon creepered tower of
a church of Ereland, meet for true saints in
worshipful assemblage,3 with our king's house
 

 

         1 Startnaked and bonedstiff. We vivvy soddy. All be dood. 
         2 When you dreamt that you'd wealth in marble arch do you ever think of 
    pool beg slowe. 
         3 Porphyrious Olbion, redcoatliar, we were always wholly rose marines 
    on our side every time. 

 

 

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of stone, belgroved of mulbrey, the still that          
was mill and Kloster that was Yeomansland,
the ghastcold tombshape of the quick fore-
gone on, the loftleaved elm Lefanunian above-
mansioned, each, every, all is for the retro-
spectioner. Skole! Agus skole igen! 1 Sweet-
some auburn, cometh up as a selfreizing flower,
that fragolance of the fraisey beds: the phoenix,
his pyre, is still flaming away with trueprat-
tight spirit: the wren his nest is niedelig as the
turrises of the sabines are televisible. Here are
the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler
and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her
chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose,
In snowdrop,  arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner-
trou-de-dentelle,  ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of
flesh and helio-  ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe,
trope.  are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you
pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of
Angoisse. All out of two barreny old perishers,
Tytonyhands and Vlossyhair, a kilolitre in
metromyriams. Presepeprosapia, the parent
bole. Wone tabard, wine tap and warm tavern 5
and, by ribbon development, from contact
bridge to lease lapse, only two millium two
humbered and eighty thausig nine humbered
Here's our dozen  and sixty radiolumin lines to the wustworts of
cousins from the  a Finntown's generous poet's office. Distorted
starves on tripes.  mirage, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the
 

 
                1 Now a muss wash the little face. 
                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. 

 

 

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boxomeness of the bedelias 1 makes hobby-
hodge happy in his hole. 2 The store and
charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne. Riva-
pool? Hod a brieck on it! But its piers eerie,
its span spooky, its toll but a till, its parapets
all peripateting. D'Oblong's by his by. Which
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.
Bet you fippence,     Here (the memories framed from walls are PREAUSTERIC
anythesious, minding) till wranglers for wringwrowdy MAN AND HIS
there's no pug- wready are, F wpe157.jpg (815 bytes), (at gaze, respecting, four- PURSUIT OF
gatory, are yous teenth baronet, meet, altrettanth bancorot, PAN-
game? chaff) and ere commence commencement cata- HYSTERIC
launic when Aetius check chokewill Attil's WOMAN.
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.

 

 

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drugged,1 lead us seek, lote us see, light us find,
let us missnot Maidadate, Mimosa Multimim-
etica, the maymeaminning of maimoomeining!
Elpis, thou fountain of the greeces, all shall speer
theeward,2 from kongen in his canteenhus to
knivers hind the knoll. Ausonius Audacior
and gael, gillie, gall.3 Singalingalying. Storiella
as she is syung. Whence followeup with end-
There was a speaking nots for yestures, plutonically pur-
sweet hopeful suant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty
culled Cis. Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas.
    Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette, URGES AND
unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves WIDERURGES
us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs IN A PRIMI-
time on the domisole,4 with a blewy blow and TIVE SEPT.
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
The Big Bear Veto but Nova will be nearing as their radient
bit the Sailor's among the Nereids. A one of charmers, ay,
Only. Trouble, Una Unica, charmers, who, under the branches
trouble, trouble. of the elms, in shoes as yet unshent by stoni-
Forening Unge ness, wend, went, will wend a way of honey
Kristlike Kvinne. 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.

 

 

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if have faded from the fleur,1 their arms
enlocked, (ringrang, the chimes of sex appeal-
Telltale me all ing as conchitas with sentas stray,2 rung!), all
of annaryllies. thinking all of it, the It with an itch in it, the All
every inch of it, the pleasure each will preen her
for, the business each was bred to breed by.3
    Soon jemmijohns will cudgel about some EARLY
a rhythmatick or other over Browne and NOTIONS OF
Nolan's divisional tables whereas she, of ACQUIRED
Will you carry minions' novence charily being cupid, for RIGHTS AND
my can and mug's wumping, grooser's grubbiness, andt's THE INFLU-
fight the fairies? avarice and grossopper's grandegaffe, with her ENCE OF
tootpettypout of jemenfichue will sit and knit COLLECTIVE
on solfa sofa.4 Stew of the evening, booksyful TRADITION
stew. And a bodikin a boss in the Thimble UPON THE
Theatre. But all is her-inbourne. Intend. From INDIVIDUAL.
Allma Mathers, gramma's grammar she has it that if there is a
Auctioneer. 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
Old Gavelkind such that I was to your grappa (Bott's trousend,
the Gamper and hore a man uff!) when him was me hedon6
he's as daff as and mine, what the lewdy saying, his analec-
you're erse. 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 why you ran away to sea, Mrs
           Lappy. Leap me, Locklaun, for you have sensed!
                7 A washable lovable floatable doll.

 

 

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knowledge that often hate on first hearing
comes of love by second sight. Have your
little sintalks in the dunk of subjunctions, dual
in duel and prude with pruriel, but even the
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
Undante  wore a gentleman, thou arr, I am a quean. Is
umoroso.  a game over? The game goes on. Cookcook!
M. 50-50.  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 Renée 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. 

 

 

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from her postconditional future.1 Lumpsome
is who lumpsum pays. Quantity counts though
accents falter. Yoking apart and oblique ora-
I'll go for that tions parsed to one side, a brat, alanna, can

small polly if

choose from so many, be he a sollicitor's
you'll suck to appendix, a pipe clerk or free functionist
your lebbens- flyswatter, that perfect little cad, from the
quatsch. 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 schlangder 2
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
O'Mara Farrell. but, volve the virgil page and view, the O of
woman is long when burly those two muters
Verschwindibus. 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, CONCOMI-
ya, ya, in their memoiries of Hireling's puny TANCE OF
Ulstria, wars, end so, und all, ga, ga, of The O'Brien, COURAGE,
 

 

            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.

 

 

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