Complete Works of James Joyce (191 page)

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.