-
In the name of Annah the Allmaziful,
the Everliving, the
Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her
singtime sung, her
rill be run, unhemmed
as it is uneven!
Her untitled mamafesta memorialising the Mosthighest has
gone by many names at disjointed times.
Thus we
hear of, The
Augusta Angustissimost for Old
Seabeastius' Salvation, Rockabill
Booby in the Wave Trough, Here's to the
Relicts of All
Decencies,
Anna Stessa's Rise to Notice, Knickle Down Duddy Gunne and
Arishe Sir Cannon, My
Golden One and My
Selver Wedding,
Amoury Treestam and Icy
Siseule, Saith a Sawyer
til a
Strame, Ik
dik dopedope et tu mihimihi, Buy Birthplate for a Bite, Which of
your Hesterdays Mean Ye to Morra? Hoebegunne the Hebrewer
Hit Waterman the Brayned,
Arcs in His Ceiling Flee Chinx
on the
Flur,
Rebus de Hibernicis,
The Crazier Letters,
Groans of a Briton-
ess, Peter Peopler Picked a Plot to Pitch his
Poppolin, An Apology
for a Big (some such nonoun as Husband or
husboat or hose-
bound is probably understood for we have also the plutherple-
thoric My Hoonsbood Hansbaad's a Journey to Porthergill gone
and He Never Has the Hour), Ought We To Visit Him? For Ark
see Zoo, Cleopater's Nedlework Ficturing
Aldborougham on the
Sahara with the Coombing of the Cammmels and the Parlourmaids
of Aegypt, Cock in the Pot for Father, Placeat
Vestrae, A New
Cure for an Old Clap, Where Portentos they'd Grow Gonder
how
I'd Wish I Woose a Geese; Gettle Nettie, Thrust him not,
When the
- Myrtles
of
Venice Played to Bloccus's Line, To Plenge Me High
He Waives Chiltern
on Friends, Oremunds Queue
Visits Amen
Mart, E'en Tho' I Granny a-be
He would Fain Me Cuddle, Twenty
of Chambers, Weighty Ten Beds and a Wan Ceteroom, I Led the
Life, Through the Boxer Coxer Rising in the House with the Golden
Stairs, The
Following Fork, He's my O'Jerusalem and I'm his
Po, The Best in the
West, By the Stream of Zemzem under
Zig-
zag Hill, The Man That Made His Mother in the Marlborry
Train, Try Our Taal on a
Taub, The
Log of Anny to the Base
All, Nopper Tipped a Nappiwenk to his
Notylytl
Dantsigirls,
Prszss
Orel Orel the King of Orlbrdsz,
Intimier Minnelisp of an
Extor-
reor Monolothe,
Drink to Him, My Juckey, and
Dhoult Bemine
Thy Winnowing Sheet, I Ask You to Believe I was his
Mistress,
He Can Explain, From Victrolia Nuancee to Allbart
Noahnsy,
Da's a Daisy so Guimea your Handsel too, What
Barbaras Done
to a Barrel Organ Before the Rank, Tank and
Bonnbtail, Huskvy
Admortal, What Jumbo made to Jalice and what
Anisette to Him,
Ophelia's Culpreints,
Hear Hubty Hublin, My Old Dansh, I am
Older northe Rogues among Whisht I Slips and He Calls
Me his
Dual of Ayessha, Suppotes a Ventriliquorst
Merries a Corpse,
Lapps for Finns This
Funnycoon's Week, How the Buckling Shut
at Rush in January, Look to the Lady, From the
Rise of the
Dudge Pupublick to the Fall of the Potstille, Of the Two Ways
of Opening the Mouth, I have not
Stopped Water Where It Should
Flow and I Know the Twentynine Names of Attraente, The Tortor
of Tory Island Traits Galasia like his Milchcow, From Abbeygate
to Crowalley Through a Lift in the Lude, Smocks for Their Graces
and Me Aunt for Them Clodshoppers, How to Pull a
Good Horus-
coup even when Oldsire is
Dead to the World, Inn the Gleam of
Waherlow, Fathe
He's Sukceded to My Esperations,
Thee Steps
Forward, Two Stops Back, My Skin Appeals to Three Senses and
My Curly Lips Demand Columbkisses; Gage Street on a Crany's
Savings, Them Lads made a Trion of
Battlewatschers and They
Totties a Doeit of Deers, In My Lord's Bed by One Whore Went
Through It, Mum It is All Over, Cowpoyride by Twelve
Acre Ter-
riss in the Unique Estates of Amessican, He Gave me a
Thou so I
- serve Him with
Thee, Of all the Wide Torsos in all the Wild Glen,
O'Donogh, White Donogh, He's Hue to Me Cry, I'm the Stitch
in his Baskside You'd be Nought Without Mom, To Keep the
Huskies off the Hustings
and Picture Pets from Lifting Shops,
Nor-
sker Torsker Find the Poddle, He
Perssed Me Here with
the Ardour
of a Tonnoburkes, A Boob Was Weeping This Mower was Reaping,
O'Loughlin, Up from the Pit of my Stomach I Swish you
the White
of the Mourning, Inglo-Andeen Medoleys from Tommany
Moohr,
The Great Polynesional Entertrainer Exhibits
Ballantine Braut-
chers with the Link of Natures, The Mimic of Meg Neg end
the Mackeys, Entered as the Lastest Pigtarial and My
Pooridiocal
at Stitchioner's Hall, Siegfield Follies and
or a Gentlehomme's
Faut
Pas, See the First Book of Jealesies
Pessim, The Suspended Sen-
tence, A Pretty Brick Story for Childsize Heroes, As Lo Our
Sleep,
I Knew I'd Got it in Me so Thit settles That, Thonderbalt
Captain
Smeth and La Belle Sauvage
Pocahonteuse, Way for Wet
Week
Welikin's
Douchka Marianne,
The Last of the Fingallians, It Was
Me Egged Him on to the
Stork Exchange and Lent my Dutiful
Face to His Customs, Chee Chee Cheels on their China Miction,
Pickedmeup Peters,
Lumptytumtumpty had a Big Fall, Pimpimp
Pimpimp, Measly Ventures of Two Lice and the Fall of Fruit,
The Fokes Family Interior, If my
Spreadeagles
Wasn't so Tight
I'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of
Maggiestraps,
Allolosha
Popofetts and Howke Cotchme Eye, Seen Aples and Thin
Dyed,
i big U to Beleaves from Love and Mother, Fine's Fault was no
Felon, Exat
Delvin Renter
Life, The Flash that Flies from Vuggy's
Eyes has Set Me Hair On Fire, His is the House that
Malt Made,
Divine Views from Back to the Front, Abe to Sare Stood Icyk
Neuter till Brahm Taulked Him Common Sex, A Nibble
at Eve
Will That Bowal Relieve, Allfor Guineas, Sounds and Compliments
Libidous, Seven Wives Awake Aweek, Airy Ann and Berber
Blut,
Amy Licks Porter While Huffy
Chops Eads,
Abbrace of
Umbellas
or a Tripple of Caines, Buttbutterbust, From the Manorlord
Hoved
to the Misses O'Mollies and from the Dames to their Sames, Many-
festoons for the Colleagues on the
Green, An
Outstanding Back and
an Excellent Halfcentre if Called on, As Tree is Quick
and Stone is
- White So is My Washing Done by Night, First and
Last Only
True Account all about the Honorary Mirsu
Earwicker, L.S.D.,
and the Snake (Nuggets!) by a Woman of the World who
only can
Tell Naked Truths about a Dear Man and all his Conspirators how
they all Tried to Fall him Putting it all around Lucalizod about
Privates Earwicker and a Pair of Sloppy Sluts plainly Showing all
the Unmentionability falsely Accusing about
the Raincoats.
The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron
of scripture.
There was a time when naif alphabetters would have
written it
down the tracing of a purely deliquescent recidivist,
possibly
ambidextrous,
snubnosed
probably and presenting a strangely
profound rainbowl in his (or her) occiput. To the hardily curio-
sing entomophilust then it has shown a very sexmosaic of nym-
phosis in which the eternal chimerahunter
Oriolopos,
now frond
of sugars, then lief of saults,
the sensory crowd in his belly
coupled with an eye for the
goods trooth bewilderblissed
by
their night effluvia with
guns like drums and fondlers like forceps
persequestellates his vanessas
from flore to flore. Somehows this
sounds like the purest kidooleyoon wherein our
madernacerution
of lour lore is rich.
All's so herou from us him in a
kitchernott
darkness, by hasard and worn rolls arered, we must grope on
till
Zerogh hour like pou
owl giaours as we are would we salve aught
of moments for our aysore today.
Amousin though not
but. Closer
inspection of the bordereau would reveal a
multiplicity of person-
alities inflicted on the documents or document and
some prevision
of virtual crime or crimes might be made by anyone
unwary
enough before any suitable occasion for it or them had so far
managed to happen along. In fact, under the closed eyes of the in-
spectors the traits featuring the chiaroscuro coalesce,
their con-
trarieties eliminated, in one stable somebody similarly as by the
providential warring of heartshaker with housebreaker and of
dramdrinker against freethinker our social something
bowls along
bumpily, experiencing a
jolting series of prearranged disappoint-
ments, down the long lane of (it's as semper as oxhousehumper!)
generations, more generations and still more generations.
Say, baroun
lousadoor, who in hallhagal wrote the durn thing
- anyhow? Erect, beseated, mountback, against a
partywall, below
freezigrade, by the use of quill or style, with turbid or pellucid
mind, accompanied or the reverse by mastication,
interrupted
by visit of seer to scribe
or of scribe to site, atwixt
two showers
or atosst of a trike, rained upon or blown around, by a right-
down regular racer from the soil or by a too pained whittlewit
laden with the loot of
learning?
Now, patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and
above all things else we must avoid anything like being or be-
coming out of patience. A good plan used by worried business
folk who may not have had many momentums to
master
Kung's
doctrine of the meang or the propriety codestruces of
Carpri-
mustimus is just to think of all the sinking fund of
patience pos-
sessed in their conjoint names by both brothers
Bruce
with whom
are incorporated their Scotch spider and
Elberfeld's Calculating
Horses. If after years upon years of delving in ditches
dark one
tubthumper more than others,
Kinihoun or
Kahanan,
giardarner
or mear measenmanonger, has got up for the darnall same
pur-
pose of reassuring us with all the barbar of the
Carrageehouse
that our great ascendant was properly speaking three
syllables
less than his own surname (yes, yes, less!), that the ear of
Fionn
Earwicker aforetime was the trademark of a broadcaster with
wicker local jargon
for an ace's patent (Hear! Calls! Everywhair!)
then as to this radiooscillating epiepistle to which, cotton, silk or
samite, kohol,
gall or brickdust, we must ceaselessly
return, where-
abouts exactly at present in Siam, Hell or Tophet under
that
glorisol which plays touraloup
with us in this Aludin's Cove of
our cagacity is that bright soandsuch to slip us the
dinkum oil?
Naysayers we know.
To conclude
purely negatively from the
positive absence of political odia and monetary requests that its
page cannot ever have been a penproduct of a man or woman of
that period or those parts is only one more
unlookedfor
conclu-
sion leaped at, being tantamount to inferring
from the nonpre-
sence of inverted commas (sometimes called quotation marks)
on any page that its author was always constitutionally
incapable
of misappropriating the spoken words of others.
- Luckily there is another cant to the questy. Has
any fellow, of
the dime a dozen type, it might with some
profit some dull even-
ing quietly be hinted — has any usual sort of ornery josser, flat-
chested fortyish, faintly flatulent and given to ratiocination by
syncopation in the elucidation of
complications, of his greatest
Fung Yang
dynasdescendanced, only another the
son of,
in fact,
ever looked sufficiently longly at a quite everydaylooking stamped
addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an outer husk: its face, in
all its featureful perfection of imperfection, is its
fortune: it ex-
hibits only the civil or military clothing of whatever passion-
pallid nudity or plaguepurple nakedness may happen to tuck it-
self under its flap. Yet to concentrate solely on the
literal sense or
even the psychological content of any document to the sore
neglect of the enveloping facts themselves circumstantiating
it is
just as hurtful to sound sense (and let it be added to the truest
taste) as were some fellow in the act of perhaps getting an intro
from another fellow turning out to be a friend in need of his, say,
to a lady of the latter's acquaintance, engaged in performing the
elaborative antecistral
ceremony of upstheres, straightaway to
run
off and vision her plump and plain in her
natural altogether, pre-
ferring to close his blinkhard's eyes to the
ethiquethical fact that
she was, after all, wearing for the space of the time being some
definite articles of evolutionary clothing, inharmonious creations,
a captious critic might describe them as, or not
strictly necessary
or a trifle irritating here and there, but for all
that suddenly full
of local colour and personal perfume and suggestive, too, of so
very much more and capable of being stretched, filled out, if need
or wish were, of having their surprisingly like coincidental
parts
separated don't they now, for better survey by the deft hand of
an expert, don't you know? Who in his heart doubts either that
the facts of feminine clothiering are there all the
time or that the
feminine fiction, stranger than the facts, is there also at the same
time, only a little to the rere? Or that one may be
separated from
the other? Or that both may then be contemplated
simultaneously?
Or that each may be taken up and considered in turn apart from
the other?
- Here let a few artifacts
fend in their own favour.
The river felt
she wanted salt. That was just where Brien came in.
The country
asked for bearspaw for dindin! And boundin
aboundin it got it
surly. We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kingdom,
we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching
the land. We suddenly have. Our isle is Sainge. The
place. That
stern chuckler Mayhappy
Mayhapnot, once said to repeation
in that lutran conservatory way of his that
Isitachapel-Asitalukin
was the one place, ult aut nult, in this
madh vaal of tares (whose
verdhure's yellowed therever
Phaiton parks his car while its
tamelised tay is the drame
of Drainophilias) where the possible
was the improbable and the improbable the inevitable. If the pro-
verbial bishop of our holy and undivided with this me
ken
or no
me ken Zot is the Quiztune
havvermashed had his twoe nails
on the head we are in for a sequentiality of improbable possibles
though possibly nobody after having grubbed up a lock of cwold
cworn aboove his subject probably in Harrystotalies or the vivle
will go out of his way to applaud
him on the onboiassed back of
his remark for utterly impossible as are all these events they are
probably as like those which may have taken place as any others
which never took person at all are ever likely to be. Ahahn!
About that original hen. Midwinter
(fruur or kuur?) was in the
offing and Premver a promise of a pril when, as
kischabrigies sang
life's old sahatsong, an iceclad shiverer, merest of bantlings ob-
served a cold fowl behaviourising strangely on that
fatal midden
or chip factory or comicalbottomed copsjute (dump for short)
afterwards changed into the orangery when in the
course of
deeper demolition unexpectedly one bushman's
holiday its limon
threw up a few spontaneous fragments of orangepeel, the last
remains of an outdoor meal by some unknown sunseeker
or place-
hider illico way back in his mistridden past.
What child of a
strand-
looper but keepy little Kevin in the despondful surrounding of
such sneezing cold would ever have
trouved up on a strate that
was called strete a motive for future
saintity by euchring
the
finding of the Ardagh chalice by another heily innocent and
beachwalker whilst trying with pious clamour to wheedle
Tip-
- peraw raw raw
reeraw puteters out of Now Sealand in
spignt
of the patchpurple of the massacre, a dual a duel
to
die to
day, goddam and biggod,
sticks and stanks,
of most of the
Jacobiters.
The bird in the case was Belinda of the Dorans, a more than
quinquegintarian (Terziis prize with
Serni medal,
Cheepalizzy's
Hane Exposition) and what she was scratching at the hour of
klokking twelve looked for all this zogzag world like a
goodish-
sized sheet of letterpaper originating by transhipt from
Boston
(Mass.) of the last of the first to Dear
whom it proceded to
mention Maggy well & allathome's health well only the
hate
turned the mild on the van Houtens and the
general's elections
with a lovely face of some born gentleman with a beautiful present
of wedding cakes for dear thankyou Chriesty and
with grand
funferall of poor Father Michael don't forget unto
life's & Muggy
well how are you Maggy & hopes soon to hear well & must now
close it with fondest to the twoinns with four crosskisses for holy
paul holey comer holipoli whollyisland pee ess from (locust may
eat all but this sign shall they never) affectionate
largelooking
tache of tch. The stain,
and that a teastain (the overcautelousness
of the masterbilker here, as usual, signing the
page away), marked
it off on the spout of the moment as
a genuine relique of ancient
Irish pleasant pottery of that lydialike languishing
class known as
a hurry-me-o'er-the-hazy.
Why then how?
Well, almost any photoist
worth his chemicots will tip anyone
asking him the teaser that if a negative of a horse
happens to melt
enough while drying, well, what you do get is, well, a positively
grotesquely distorted macromass of all sorts of
horsehappy values
and masses of meltwhile horse.
Tip. Well, this freely is what
must have occurred to our missive (there's a sod of a turb for
you! please wisp off the grass!) unfilthed
from the boucher by
the sagacity of a
lookmelittle likemelong hen.
Heated
residence
in the heart of the orangeflavoured mudmound had
partly ob-
literated the negative to start with, causing
some features pal-
pably nearer your pecker to be swollen up most grossly while
- the farther back we manage to wiggle the more we need the loan
of a lens to see as much as the hen saw.
Tip.
You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says:
It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You
most shouts out:
Bethicket me for a stump
of a beech if I have the poultriest
no-
tions what the farest he all means. Gee up, girly! The quad gos-
pellers may own the targum but any of the
Zingari
shoolerim
may pick a peck of kindlings
yet from the sack of auld
hensyne.
Lead, kindly fowl! They always did:
ask the ages. What bird
has done yesterday man may do next year, be it fly, be it moult,
be it hatch, be it agreement in the nest. For her socioscientific
sense is sound as a bell, sir, her volucrine automutativeness right
on normalcy: she knows, she just feels she was kind
of born to
lay and love eggs (trust her to propagate the
species and hoosh
her fluffballs safe through din
and danger!); lastly but mostly, in
her genesic field it is all game and no gammon; she is ladylike in
everything she does and plays the gentleman's part every time.
Let us auspice it! Yes, before all this has time to
end the golden
age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible,
Ague will be rejuvenated,
woman with her ridiculous white bur-
den will reach by one step sublime incubation, the manewanting
human lioness with her dishorned
discipular manram will lie
down together publicly flank
upon fleece. No, assuredly,
they are
not justified, those gloompourers who grouse that letters have
never been quite their old selves again since that weird weekday
in bleak Janiveer
(yet how palmy date in a waste's oasis!) when
to the shock of both, Biddy
Doran looked at literature.
And. She may be a mere marcella, this midget
madgetcy,
Misthress of Arths. But. It is not a hear or say of some
anomo-
rous letter, signed Toga Girilis, (teasy dear). We have a cop
of
her fist right against our nosibos. We note the paper with her
jotty young watermark:
Notre Dame du Bon Marchй. And she
has a heart of Arin! What lumililts as she fols with her
falli-
mineers and her nadianods. As
a strow will shaw she does
the
wind blague, recting
to show the rudess of a robur curling and
shewing the fansaties of a frizette. But how many of her readers
- realise that she is not out to
dizzledazzle with a graith
uncouthre-
ment of postmantuam glasseries from the lapins
and the grigs.
Nuttings on her wilelife!
Grabar gooden grandy for old almea-
nium adamologists like Dariaumaurius and
Zovotrimaserov-
meravmerouvian; (dmzn!); she feel plain plate one flat fact thing
and if, lastways firdstwise, a man alones sine anyon anyons
utharas has no rates to done a kik at with
anyon anakars about
tutus milking fores and the rereres on the
outerrand
asikin the
tutus to be forrarder. Thingcrooklyexineverypasturesixdix-
likencehimaroundhersthemaggerbykinkinkankanwithdownmind-
lookingated. Mesdaims,
Marmouselles, Mescerfs!
Silvapais! All
schwants (schwrites) ischt tell the
cock's trootabout
him. Ka-
pak kapuk. No minzies matter. He had
to see life foully the
plak and the smut,
(schwrites). There were three men in him
(schwrites). Dancings (schwrites) was his only ttoo feebles.
With apple harlottes. And a little
mollvogels.
Spissially
(schwrites)
when they peaches. Honeys
wore camelia paints.
Yours very
truthful. Add
dapple inn. Yet is it but an old story, the tale of
a Treestone with one
Ysold, of a Mons held by
tentpegs
and his
pal whatholoosed
on the
run, what Cadman could but Badman
wouldn't, any Genoaman against any Venis, and why
Kate takes
charge of the waxworks.
Let us now, weather, health, dangers, public orders and other
circumstances permitting, of perfectly convenient, if you police,
after you, policepolice, pardoning mein,
ich beam so
fresch, bey?
drop this jiggerypokery and
talk straight turkey
meet
to mate, for
while the ear, be we mikealls or nicholists, may sometimes be in-
clined to believe others the eye, whether browned or
nolensed,
find it devilish hard
now and again even to believe itself. Habes
aures et num videbis? Habes oculos ac mannepalpabuat? Tip! Draw-
ing nearer to take our slant at it (since after all it
has met with
misfortune while all underground), let us see all there may remain
to be seen.
I am a worker, a tombstone mason,
anxious to pleace avery-
buries and jully glad when Christmas comes his once
ayear. You
are a poorjoist, unctuous
to polise nopebobbies
and tunnibelly
- soully when 'tis
thime took o'er home, gin. We cannot say aye
to aye. We cannot smile noes from noes. Still.
One cannot help
noticing that rather more than half of the lines run north-south
in the Nemzes and Bukarahast directions while the
others go
west-east in search from Maliziies with Bulgarad for,
tiny tot
though it looks when schtschupnistling alongside other incuna-
bula, it has its cardinal points
for all that. These ruled
barriers
along which the traced words, run, march, halt, walk,
stumble
at doubtful points, stumble up again in comparative safety seem
to have been drawn first of all in a pretty checker with lamp-
black and blackthorn. Such crossing is antechristian of course,
but the use of the homeborn shillelagh as an aid to calligraphy
shows a distinct advance from savagery to barbarism. It is
seriously believed by some that the intention may have been
geodetic, or, in the view of the cannier,
domestic economical.
But by writing thithaways
end to end and turning, turning and
end to end hithaways writing and with lines of litters slittering
up and louds of latters slettering down, the old
semetomyplace
and jupetbackagain from tham Let Rise till
Hum Lit.
Sleep,
where in the waste is the wisdom?
Another point, in addition to the original sand,
pounce pow-
der, drunkard paper or soft rag used (any vet or
inhanger
in
ous sot's social can
see the seen for seemself,
a wee ftofty
od
room, the cheery spluttered
on the one karrig, a darka disheen
of voos from Dalbania, any
gotsquantity of
racky, a portogal
and some buk setting out on the sofer, you remember the
sort of softball sucker
motru used to tell us when we
were all
biribiyas or
nippies and messas) it has acquired accretions
of
terricious matter whilst
loitering in the past. The teatimestained
terminal (say not the tag,
mummer, or our show's a failure!) is a
cosy little
brown
study all to oneself and, whether it be
thumb-
print, mademark or just a poor trait of the artless,
its importance
in establishing the identities in the writer complexus (for if the
hand was one, the minds of active and agitated were more than
so) will be best appreciated by never forgetting that both before
and after the battle of the Boyne it was a
habit not to sign letters
- always. Tip. And it is surely a lesser ignorance to
write a word
with every consonant too few than to add all too
many. The
end? Say it with missiles then and thus arabesque
the page. You
have your cup of scalding Souchong, your taper's
waxen drop,
your cat's paw, the clove or
coffinnail
you chewed or champed
as you worded it, your lark in
clear air. So why, pray, sign any-
thing as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a
perfect signature of its own? A true friend is known much more
easily, and better into the bargain, by his
personal touch, habits
of full or undress,
movements, response to appeals for charity
than by his , say. And, speaking anent
Tiberias and other
incestuish salacities
among gerontophils, a word of warning
about the tenderloined passion
hinted at. Some softnosed
per-
user might mayhem take it up erogenously as the usual case of
spoons, prostituta in
herba
plus dinky pinks deliberatively summer-
saulting off her bisexycle, at the main entrance of
curate's per-
petual soutane suit with her one to see and
awoh! who
picks her
up as gingerly as any balmbearer
would to feel whereupon the
virgin was most hurt and nicely asking: whyre have you been so
grace a mauling and where were you chaste me child?
Be who,
farther potential? and so wider but we grisly old Sykos who have
done our unsmiling bit on 'alices, when they were
yung and
easily freudened, in the penumbra of the procuring room and
what oracular comepression
we have had apply to them! could
(did we care to sell our feebought silence
in camera)
tell our very
moistnostrilled one that father in such virgated
contexts is not
always that undemonstrative relative (often
held up to our con-
tumacy) who settles our hashbill
for us and what an innocent all-
abroad's adverb such as Michaelly looks like can be
suggestive
of under the pudendascope
and, finally, what a neurasthene nym-
pholept, endocrine-pineal
typus, of inverted parentage
with a
prepossessing drauma present in her past and a priapic urge for
congress with agnates
before cognates fundamentally is feeling
for under her lubricitous meiosis when she refers with liking to
some feeler she fancie's
face. And Mm. We could. Yet what need
to say? 'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry, in
- affect, as singsing so Salaman susuing to swittvitles while as un-
bluffingly blurtubruskblunt as an Esra, the
cat, the cat's
meeter,
the meeter's cat's wife, the meeter's cat's wife's
half better, the
meeter's cat's wife's half better's meeter, and so back to our
horses, for we also know, what we have perused from the pages
of I Was A Gemral, that Showting up of Bulsklivism by
'Schot-
tenboum', that Father Michael about this red time
of the white
terror equals the old regime and Margaret is the social revolution
while cakes mean the party funds and dear thank you
signifies
national gratitude. In fine, we have heard, as it
happened, of
Spartacus intercellular. We are not corknered yet,
dead
hand!
We can recall, with voluntears, the froggy jew, and
sweeter far
'twere now westhinks in Dumbil's fair city ere one more year is
o'er. We tourned our coasts to the good gay
tunes. When from
down swords the sea merged the
oldowth guns and answer
made
the bold O' Dwyer. But.
Est modest in
verbos. Let a prostitute
be whoso stands before a door and winks or parks herself
in the
fornix near a
makeussin wall (sinsin!
sinsin!) and the curate one
who brings strong waters (gingin!
gingin!), but
also, and dinna
forget, that there is many asleeps
between someathome's first
and moreinausland's
last and that the beautiful
presence of wait-
ing kates will until life's (!) be more than enough to make any
milkmike in the language of sweet tarts punch hell's hate into his
twin nicky and that Maggy's tea, or your majesty, if
heard as a
boost from a born gentleman is (?). For if the lingo gasped between
kicksheets, however basically English, were to be preached from
the mouths of wickerchurchwardens and metaphysicians in
the
row and advokaatoes, allvoyous,
demivoyelles,
languoaths,
les-
biels, dentelles,
gutterhowls and furtz, where would their prac-
tice be or where the human race itself were the Pythagorean
ses-
quipedalia of the panepistemion, however apically Volapucky,
grunted and gromwelled, ichabod,
habakuk, opanoff, uggamyg,
hapaxle, gomenon, ppppfff, over country stiles, behind slated
dwellinghouses, down blind lanes, or, when all
fruit fails, under
some sacking left on a coarse
cart?
So hath been, love: tis tis: and will be: till
wears and tears and
- ages. Thief us the night, steal we the air, shawl thiner liefest,
mine! Here, Ohere, insult the
fair! Traitor, bad hearer,
brave!
The lightning look, the birding cry, awe from the grave, ever-
flowing on the times. Feueragusaria
iordenwater; now godsun
shine on menday's daughter; a good clap, a fore marriage, a
bad
wake, tell hell's well; such is manowife's lot of lose and
win again,
like he's gruen quhiskers on who's chin again, she
plucketed them
out but they grown in again. So what are you going to do about
it? O dear!
If juness she saved! Ah ho! And if
yulone he pouved! The ol-
old stoliolum! From
quiqui quinet to michemiche chelet
and a
jambebatiste to a
brulobrulo! It is told in sounds
in utter that, in
signs so adds to, in
universal, in
polygluttural, in each
auxiliary
neutral idiom,
sordomutics,
florilingua, sheltafocal,
flayflutter, a
con's cubane, a
pro's tutute,
strassarab,
and anythongue
athall. Since nozzy Nanette tripped palmyways with Highho
Harry there's a spurtfire turf a'kind o'kindling when oft as the
souffsouff blows her peaties up and a
claypot wet for
thee, my
Sitys, and talkatalka tell Tibbs has eve: and whathough (revilous
life proving aye the death of
ronaldses when winpower wine
has
bucked the kick on poor won man) billiousness has been
billious-
ness during milliums of millenions and our mixed racings have
been giving two hoots or
three jeers for the grape, vine and brew
and Pieter's in
Nieuw Amsteldam and Paoli's where the poules
go and rum smelt his end for him and he dined off sooth
ameri-
can (it would give one the frier even were one a normal
Kettle-
licker) this oldworld
epistola of their weatherings and their
marryings and their buryings and their natural selections has
combled tumbled down to us
fersch and made-at-all-hours like
an ould cup on tay. As I was hottin me souser.
Haha! And as
you was caldin your dutchy hovel.
Hoho! She tole the tail or
her toon. Huhu!
Now, kapnimancy and infusionism may both fit as
tight as
two trivets but while we in our wee free state, holding to
that
prestatute in our charter, may have our irremovable
doubts as
to the whole sense of the lot, the interpretation of any
phrase in
- the whole, the meaning of every word of a phrase so
far de-
ciphered out of it, however unfettered our
Irish
daily indepen-
dence, we must vaunt no idle dubiosity as to its genuine author-
ship and holusbolus authoritativeness. And let us
bringtheecease
to beakerings on that clink,
olmond bottler!
On the face of it,
to volt back to our desultory
horses, and for your roughshod
mind, bafflelost bull, the affair is a thing once for
all done and
there you are somewhere and finished in a certain time, be it a
day or a year or even supposing, it should eventually turn out
to be a serial number of goodness gracious alone knows how
many days or years. Anyhow, somehow and somewhere, before
the bookflood or after her ebb, somebody mentioned by name in
his telephone directory, Coccolanius or
Gallotaurus, wrote it,
wrote it all, wrote it all down, and there you are,
full stop. O,
undoubtedly yes, and very potably so, but one who
deeper thinks
will always bear in the baccbuccus of
his mind that this down-
right there you are and there it is is only all
in his eye. Why?
Because, Soferim Bebel, if it goes to that, (and dormerwindow
gossip will cry it from the housetops no surelier than
the writing
on the wall will hue it to the mod
of men that mote in the main
street) every person, place and thing in the chaosmos of
Alle
anyway connected with the gobblydumped turkery was moving
and changing every part of the time: the travelling inkhorn
(possibly pot), the hare and turtle pen and paper, the
continually
more and less intermisunderstanding minds of the anticollabora-
tors, the as time went on as it will variously inflected,
differently
pronounced, otherwise spelled, changeably meaning vocable
scriptsigns. No, so
holp me Petault, it is not a miseffectual why-
acinthinous riot of blots and blurs and bars and
balls and hoops
and wriggles and juxtaposed
jottings linked
by
spurts of speed:
it only looks as like it as damn it; and, sure, we ought really to
rest thankful that at this deleteful hour of
dungflies
dawning we
have even a written on with dried ink
scrap of paper at all to show
for ourselves, tare it or leaf it, (and we are lufted
to ourselves as
the soulfisher when he led the cat out
of the bout) after all that
we lost and plundered of it even to the hidmost coignings
of the
- earth and all it has gone through and
by all means, after a good
ground kiss to Terracussa and for
wars luck our lefftoff's flung
over our home homoplate, cling to it as with
drowning hands,
hoping against hope all the while that, by the
light of philo-
phosy, (and may she never folsage us!) things will
begin to clear
up a bit one way or another within the next quarrel of
an hour
and be hanged to them as ten to one they will too,
please
the pigs,
as they ought to categorically, as, stricly between ourselves, there
is a limit to all things so this will never do.
For, with that farmfrow's foul flair for that
flayfell foxfetor,
(the calamite's columitas calling for calamitous
calamitance) who
that scrutinising marvels at those indignant
whiplooplashes; those
so prudently bolted
or blocked rounds; the touching reminiscence
of an incompletet trail or dropped final; a round
thousand whirli-
gig glorioles, prefaced
by (alas!) now illegible airy
plumeflights,
all tiberiously ambiembellishing
the initials majuscule of Ear-
wicker: the meant to be baffling chrismon trilithon
sign
 , finally
called after some his hes hecitency Hec, which, moved contra-
watchwise, represents his title in sigla as the
smaller  , fontly
called following a certain change of state of grace of nature alp
or delta, when single, stands for or tautologically
stands beside
the consort: (though for that matter, since we have
heard from
Cathay cyrcles how the hen is not mirely a
tick or two after the
first fifth fourth of the second eighth twelfth — siangchang
hongkong sansheneul — but yirely
the other and thirtieth of the
ninth from the twentieth, our own vulgar
432 and 1132 irre-
spectively, why not take the former for a village inn, the
latter
for an upsidown bridge, a
multiplication marking for crossroads
ahead, which you like pothook for the family gibbet, their old
fourwheedler for the bucker's field, a
tea anyway for a tryst
someday, and his onesidemissing for an allblind alley
leading to
an Irish plot in the Champ de Mors, not?) the steady monologuy
of the interiors; the pardonable confusion for which
some blame
the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to
which
the pees with their caps awry
are quite as often as not taken
for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often
as not
- taken for pews with
their tails in their mouths, thence your
pristopher polombos, hence our Kat
Kresbyterians; the curt
witty wotty dashes
never quite just right at the trim trite
truth letter; the sudden spluttered petulance of some capItalIsed
mIddle; a word as cunningly hidden in its maze of confused
drapery as a fieldmouse in a nest of coloured
ribbons: that ab-
surdly bullsfooted bee declaring with an even plainer
dummp-
show than does the mute commoner with us how hard a
thing it
is to mpe mporn a gentlerman: and look at this prepronominal
funferal, engraved
and retouched and edgewiped and pudden-
padded, very like a whale's egg farced with pemmican,
as were it
sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a
night till his noddle
sink or swim by that
ideal reader suffering
from an ideal insomnia: all those red raddled
obeli cayennepep-
percast over the text, calling unnecessary attention to errors,
omissions, repetitions and misalignments: that
(probably local or
personal) variant maggers for the more
generally accepted ma-
jesty which is but a trifle and yet may quietly
amuse: those super-
ciliouslooking crisscrossed Greek ees awkwardlike perched there
and here out of date like sick owls hawked
back to Athens: and
the geegees too, jesuistically
formed at first but afterwards genu-
flected aggrily toewards the occident: the Ostrogothic kako-
graphy affected for certain phrases of Etruscan stabletalk
and, in
short, the learning betrayed at almost every
line's end: the head-
strength (at least eleven men of thirtytwo palfrycraft)
revealed
by a constant labour to make a ghimel pass through the
eye of an
iota: this, for instance, utterly unexpected
sinistrogyric return
to
one peculiar sore point in the past; those throne open
doubleyous
(of an early muddy terranean
origin whether man chooses to
damn them
agglutinatively loo — too —
blue — face — ache or
illvoodawpeehole or, kants koorts, topplefouls)
seated with such
floprightdown
determination and reminding uus ineluctably of
nature at her naturalest while that fretful fidget eff, the hornful
digamma of your
bornabarbar, rarely heard now save
when falling
from the unfashionable lipsus of some
hetarosexual (used always
in two boldfaced print types — one of
them as wrongheaded as
- his Claudian
brother, is it worth while
interrupting to say? —
throughout the papyrus
as the revise mark) stalks
all over the
page, broods  sensationseeking an idea, amid the verbiage,
gaunt, stands dejectedly in the diapered window margin, with
its basque of bayleaves
all aflutter about its forksfrogs, paces
with a frown, jerking to and fro, flinging phrases here,
there, or
returns inhibited, with some half-halted suggestion,
 ,
dragging
its shoestring; the
curious warning sign before our
protoparent's
ipsissima verba (a very pure nondescript, by the way, sometimes
a palmtailed otter, more often the arbutus
fruitflowerleaf of the
cainapple) which paleographers
call a leak in the thatch
or the
aranman
ingperwhis through the hole of his hat,
indicating that the
words which follow may be taken in any order desired, hole of
Aran man the hat through the whispering his ho (here keen
again and begin again to make soundsense and sensesound kin
again); those haughtypitched disdotted aiches
easily of the rariest
inasdroll as most of the jaywalking eyes we do plough into halve,
unconnected, principial, medial or final, always jims
in the jam,
sahib, as pipless as
threadworms: the innocent exhibitionism of
those frank yet capricious
underlinings: that strange exotic serpen-
tine, since so properly banished from our scripture,
about as freak-
wing a wetterhand now as to see a rightheaded
ladywhite don a
corkhorse, which, in its invincible insolence ever longer more and
of more morosity, seems to uncoil spirally and
swell lacertinelazily
before our eyes under pressure of the writer's hand; the ungainly
musicianlessness so painted in sculpting selfsounder ah ha as
blackartful as a podatus
and dumbfounder oh ho oaproariose as
ten canons in skelterfugue:
the studious omission of year number
and era name from the date, the one and only time when our
copyist seems at least to have grasped the beauty of restraint;
the
lubricitous conjugation
of the last with the first: the gipsy mat-
ing of a grand stylish gravedigging with secondbest buns (an
in-
terpolation: these munchables occur only in the
Bootherbrowth
family of MSS., Bb — Cod IV, Pap II,
Brek XI, Lun III, Dinn
XVII, Sup XXX, Fullup M D C X C: the scholiast has hungrily
misheard a deadman's
toller as a
muffinbell):
the four shortened
- ampersands
under
which we can glypse at and feel for ourselves
across all those rushyears the warm soft short pants of the quick-
scribbler: the
vocative
lapse from which it begins and the accu-
sative hole in which it ends itself; the aphasia of
that heroic agony
of recalling a once loved number leading slip by slipper to a
general amnesia of misnomering one's own: next those ars,
rrrr!
those ars all bellical, the highpriest's hieroglyph of
kettletom and
oddsbones, wrasted
redhandedly from our hallowed
rubric prayer
for truce with booty,
O'Remus
pro Romulo, and rudely from the
fane's pinnacle
tossed down by porter to
within an aim's
ace of
their quatrain of
rubyjets among Those Who arse without the
Temple nor since Roe's Distillery burn'd have quaff'd Night's
firefill'd Cup But jig jog jug as Day the Dicebox Throws, whang,
loyal six I lead, out wi'yer heart's bluid, blast ye, and there she's
for you, sir, whang her, the fine ooman, rouge to her
lobster
locks, the rossy,
whang, God and O'Mara has it with his ruddy
old Villain Rufus,
wait, whang, God and you're another he
hasn't for there's my spoil five of spuds's trumps,
whang, whack
on his pigsking's Kisser for him,
K.M. O'Mara where are you?;
then (coming over to the left aisle corner down) the cruciform
postscript from which three basia or shorter
and smaller oscula
have been overcarefully
scraped away, plainly inspiring the tene-
brous Tunc page of the
Book of Kells
(and then it need not be
lost sight of that there are exactly three squads of
candidates for
the crucian rose awaiting their turn in the marginal panels of
Columkiller, chugged
in their three ballotboxes, then
set apart for
such hanging committees, where two was
enough for anyone,
starting with old Matthew himself, as he with great distinction
said then just as since then people speaking have fallen into the
custom, when speaking to a person, of saying two is company
when the third person is the person darkly spoken of, and then
that last labiolingual
basium might be read as a suavium if who-
ever the embracer then was wrote
with a tongue in his (or per-
haps her) cheek as the case may have been then) and the fatal
droopadwindle slope of the
blamed scrawl,
a sure sign of imper-
fectible moral blindness; the toomuchness, the fartoomanyness
- of all those fourlegged ems:
and why spell dear god with a big
thick dhee (why, O
why, O why?): the
cut and dry aks and
wise
form of the semifinal; and,
eighteenthly or
twentyfourthly, but
at least, thank Maurice, lastly when all is zed and done,
the pene-
lopean patience of its last paraphe, a colophon of no fewer than
seven hundred and thirtytwo strokes tailed by a leaping lasso
—
who thus at all this marvelling but will press on hotly
to see the
vaulting feminine libido
of those interbranching ogham sex up-
andinsweeps sternly controlled and easily repersuaded by the
uniform matteroffactness of a meandering male fist?
Duff-Muggli, who now may be quoted by
very kind arrange-
ment (his dectroscophonious photosensition under suprasonic
light control may be logged for by our none too
distant futures
as soon astone values can be turned out from
Chromophilomos,
Limited at a millicentime the microamp), first called
this kind of
paddygoeasy
partnership the ulykkhean or tetrachiric or quad-
rumane or ducks and drakes or
debts and dishes perplex
(v. Some
Forestallings over that Studium of
Sexophonologistic Schizophre-
nesis, vol. xxiv, pp. 2-555) after the wellinformed
observation,
made miles apart from the Master by Tung-Toyd
(cf. Later
Frustrations amengst the Neomugglian Teachings abaft the
Semi-
unconscience, passim) that in the case of the
littleknown periplic
bestteller popularly associated with the names of
the wretched
mariner (trianforan deffwedoff our
plumsucked pattern
shape-
keeper) a Punic admiralty
report, From MacPerson's Oshean
Round By the Tides of Jason's Cruise, had been cleverly capsized
and saucily republished
as a dodecanesian baedeker of the every-
tale-a-treat-in-itself variety which could hope
satisfactorily to
tickle me gander as
game as your goose.
The unmistaken identity of the
persons in the Tiberiast du-
plex came to light in the most devious of ways. The
original
document was in what is known as Hanno O'Nonhanno's un-
brookable script, that is to say, it showed no signs of
punctua-
tion of any sort. Yet on holding the verso against a lit
rush this
new book of Morses responded most remarkably to the silent
query of our world's oldest light and its recto let out
the piquant
- fact that it was but pierced
butnot punctured (in the university
sense of the term) by numerous stabs and foliated gashes made
by a pronged instrument. These paper wounds, four in
type,
were gradually and correctly understood to mean
stop, please
stop, do please stop, and O do please stop respectively, and
following up their one true clue, the circumflexuous
wall of a
singleminded men's asylum,
accentuated by
bi tso fb rok engl
a ssan dspl itch ina, — Yard inquiries
pointed out → that they
ad bоn "provoked" ay Λ fork, of а grave
Brofиsor; аth й's Brиak
— fast — table; ; acщtely profи¹¹ionally piquиd, to = introdщce a
notion of time [щpon а plane (?) sщ ' ' fаз'e'] by pщnct!
ingh oles
(sic) in iSpace?! Deeply religious by nature and position, and
warmly attached to Thee, and
smearbread and
better and Him
and newlaidills, it was rightly suspected that such ire could not
have been visited by him Brotfressor Prenderguest even
under-
wittingly, upon the ancestral pneuma of one whom, with rheuma,
he venerated shamelessly at least once a week at Cockspur Com-
mon as his apple in his eye
and her first boys' best friend and,
though plain English for a married lady misled heaps
by
the way,
yet when some peerer or peeress detected that the fourleaved
shamrock or quadrifoil
jab was more recurrent
wherever the
script was clear and the term terse and that these two were the
selfsame spots naturally selected for her perforations by
Dame
Partlet on her dungheap, thinkers all put grown in
waterung-
spillfull Pratiland only and a playful fowl and musical me and
not you in any case, two and two together, and, with a swarm
of bisses honeyhunting after, a sigh for shyme (O, the petty-
bonny rouge!) separated modest
mouths. So be it. And it was.
The lettermaking of the explots of Fjorgn Camhelsson when he
was in the Kvinnes country with Soldru's men. With acknow-
ledgment of our fervour of the
first instant he
remains years most
fainfully. For postscrapt see spoils. Though not yet had
the sailor
sipped that sup nor the humphar foamed to the fill. And
fox and
geese still kept the peace around
L'Auberge du Pиre Adam.
Small need after that, old Jeromesolem, old Huffsnuff, old
Andycox, old Olecasandrum,
for quizzing your weekenders
come
- to the R.Q. with:
shoots
off in a hiss,
muddles
up in a mussmass
and his whole's a dismantled
noondrunkard's son. Howbeit we
heard not a son of sons to leave by him to oceanic
society in his
old man without a thing in his ignorance,
Tulko
MacHooley.
And it was thus he was at every time, that son, and the other
time, the day was in it and after the morrow Diremood is the
name is on the writing chap of the psalter, the
juxtajunctor of a
dearmate and he passing out of one desire into
its fellow. The
daughters are after going and loojing for him,
Torba's
nice-
lookers of the fair neck. Wanted for millinary
servance to
olderly's person by the Totty Askinses.
Formelly confounded
with amother. Maybe growing a moustache, did you say, with
an adorable look of amuzement? And uses noclass
billiardhalls
with an upandown ladder?
Not Hans the Curier though had he
had have only had some little laughings and some less
of cheeks
and were he not so warried by his bulb of
persecussion he could
have, ay, and would have, as true as Essex
bridge. And not Go-
pheph go gossip,
I declare to man!
Noe! To all's
much relief
one's half hypothesis of that jabberjaw ape amok the showering
jestnuts of Bruisanose was hotly dropped and his room taken up
by that odious and still today insufficiently
malestimated note-
snatcher (kak, pfooi,
bosh and fiety, much earny, Gus, poteen?
Sez you!) Shem the Penman.
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