1) What
secondtonone myther rector builder
& bridgemaker
was the first to rise taller through his tale
beanstale than
the bluegum bo
baobab
baobabbaum or the
giganteous Wellingtonia Sequoia, went nudiboots into a
liffey
liffeyette when she was barely in her
streams
trickles
tricklies, was well known to
wear
clout a conciliationcap on the esker of his hooth, sports
an
[a chainganger's] albert over his, [hullender's]
epulence, had several successive
successiveful
coloured
coloured serevanmaids on the same [big] white
parlour
drawringroam
hearthrug
horthrug,
killed himself
his own hungery self as a young man in
anger, [bred manyheaded sons
stepsons and [a]
leapyourown daughter, [& appeared to the shecook]], found food for
his five when
the market
allmarket
allmarker was goflooded,
brewed
pressed the beer of
sapientia
ale age out of the nettles of rashness, put a roof on the
house
lodge for
God
Hymn and a cog in
the
his pot for homo, was waylaid by a parker and beshotten by a buckeley,
kicks lintels
lintils when he's
cuppy and gives
chucks
casts
Jacob's to the
his childer on the parish, owns the
bulgiest bungbarrel that was ever tiptapped in the
private
privace of
Mullingar Inn, hears the cricket on the earth
and
but
annoys the life out of preachers
predicants, made Man
with guts one jerk and minted money
with
mong
many, blows whiskey about
around the head but thinks
stout upon his feet, [was dubbed out of joke and limned in raw ochre,]
stutters when he falls and gets
goes
up
mad entirely when he's waked, is Timb
in
to
the pearly morn and Tomb in
by the
weeping
mourning night and
if
though he had all the
red
baked bricks of bould Babylon
for
to his lusting placys he'd
been
be
lost for the want of eying
ogling
a poor
an
old
ould
wubblin wall?
Answer — Finn MacCool!
The signs accompanying the questions are Joyce's symbols for his
characters. He noted them down on MS pp. 150 b and 132 b. I am including them
for the reader's convenience.
David Hayman - Joyce, James / A first-draft version of Finnegans wake (1963)