FDV:  After that you must draw the line somewhere. Given an inch make an ell. Now give me the loan of an ear lend us your eye we see the line AL stops at Lamda. Nudder Nodder island there too.

Now with Olaf as centre centrum and Olaf's Lambtail as his spokesman, cumscribe a circlus. Hoop. O dear me! But it's not over yet. The mystery repeats itself as mother used to say [yesterday] I remember she used. What a wonderful memory you have! Wonderful memory. Bene! Springing loosh quickenly from the mudbank Loosh from Lucan with Allhim as her end in a view, turn a somersault. Hop lala! O dear me! That was very interesting nice ness, very nice ness indeed! There's one tew ticklish tricklesome point poinds at which the bicycles our two doubling circulars bicirculars run into each other other each eath the ocher. Down [Here] Feahere Looksyhere Looksihere Lucihere. I feel fee where you mean mein. We aught to shake I think [as I'm squeezing the lemon] I'd like to pore a capital pee there for Pride and let you go & make muck a muddle modest pie at up your end for out of Humbles. Are you right there, Micheal, are you right? Aye I'm right here, ye Divil Nickel, all right and I'll write but it's the muddest thing thick I that was ever done heard dun. Bene! Bene! Now join alfa pea and and pea pee loose by dotted lines slashes dotty links and eelpie & pale ale by trunk lines. Like that. I see. Then Now I'll show you whom your geomater geometer was. we carefully lift up by its her hem the muddy apron of our A.L.P. Carefully Kearful Kearfully until its nether apex below is where a navel ought is bounds to be. Waaaaaa. Tch! And there's your muddy delta for you the first of all equilittoral equiltiteral triangles. O dear me, look at that, now. What a coincidence quincidence. But you're looking at the wrong place, you blessed simpleton simpletop. You must look at upon the reflection in the water below. O dear me, that's very lovely! Very lovely entirely! You know, you're a damn smart gossoon, so you are. Whereapool with a sweet marie [stealed] from the jacob [& a slypull at the slidepage] he would would he wont look seeing nibble his mum to me in bewonderment of his chipper chubor chuthor making grafficking cyclopes and after trigonies repeat pursuiting theirselves themselves like godolphing in fairlove to see allover the waste of Brown & Nolan's Nolan's Brown paper till that on him so poor in poorin sweat the juggler juggler's veins in his scraw scrag stood forestood out burstable burstright taut tightropes. [With best apologigs for again trisposing on your bumficence.] Signing Signang away, happy nestcomplete. Intricatedly yours in years, jirryalimaloop Jirryalimpaloop. I remain romain to fallthereatyourfeet fallthereatyourfate jimmyinswearmorose hurryaswarmorose. And this is how Napoleapool And this is how Saint Hol Holypolypools. And this is the way Romeopollopaloops. [Hold the pen, man way I do. And this, look, is Lordbyronazigazaggy Lordbyrinazigazaggy.] Ay. And But efter all of his medley of muddlingisms fruits thee faroots of culture cullchaw [ate setaraw citraw,] wouldn't a clean one wan able stab of the ruler do it for him quicker smarter, as has like it did done for many manny another [of the hairy hang dary] firstling firstlings, anon would think Frankey who, to be plain, was misocain. Once one is one's won. Rack And his countenence rose. And his countingance countinance rose.

Here ends the early version of the "Muddest Thick." In the thirties when he was composing the "Storiella" section of the chapter, Joyce wrote the following first-draft version of FW 304—306. A typescript of this passage is found on MS 47478, 136. The first draft itself (MS 4748, 124) is headed, as are other pages cited above, by the words "Te Deum" to which Joyce added "Antiphona after A," clarifying the ritual sense and the structure of the passage.


David Hayman: Joyce, James / A first-draft version of Finnegans wake