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

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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