Complete Works of James Joyce (183 page)

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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

 

 

wore a gentleman, thou arr, I am a quean. Is

 

 

a game over? The game goes on. Cookcook !

 

 

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 Ren‚e 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll go for that

from her postconditional future.1 Lumpsome

CONCOMI-

 

small polly if

is who lumpsum pays. Quantity counts though

TANCE OF

 

you’ll suck to

accents falter. Yoking apart and oblique ora-

COURAGE,

 

your lebbens-

tions parsed to one side, a brat, alanna, can

 

 

quatsch.

choose from so many, be he a sollicitor’s

 

 

O’Mara Farrell.

appendix, a pipe clerk or free functionist

 

 

Verschwindibus.

flyswatter, that perfect little cad, from the

 

 

Ulstria,

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 schlangder2

 

 

 

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

 

 

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