Saturday, January 23, 2010

Finnegans Wake, My lines, my page, my Water Genie example.

My page, at random, which I believe I will most likely have a difficult time with considering all the other undertakings I've grabbed on to this semester will be:

Drum roll please.

p. 383

What are the chances of landing on the beginning of a "chapter?" You nailed it. One in three.

- Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
But O, Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn't un be a sky of a lark
To see that old buzzard whooping about for uns shirt in the dark
And he hunting round for uns speckled trousers around by Palmer-
stown Park?
Hohohoho, moulty Mark!
You're the rummest old rooster ever flopped out of a Noah's ark
And you think you're cock of the wark.
Fowls, up! Tristy's the spry young spark
That'll tread her and wed her and bed her and red her
Without ever winking the tail of a feather
And that's how that chap's going to make his money mark!

Overhoved, shrillgleescreaming. That song sang seaswans.
The winging ones. Seahawk, seagull, curlew and plover, kestrel and capercallzie.
All the birds of the sea they trolled out rightbold when they smacked the big
kuss of Tristan with Usolde.
And there they were too, then it was dark, whilest the wildcaps was circling,
as slow their ship, the winds aslight, upborne the fates, the wardose moved, by
courtesy of Mr. Deaubaleau Downbellow Kaempersally, listening in, as hard as they
could, in Dubbledorp, the donker, by the tourneyold of the wattarfalls, with their
vuoxens and the kemin in so hattajockey (only a

My lines will be:

"Overhoved, shrillgleescreaming. That song sang seaswans. The winging ones. Seahawk, seagull, curlew and plover, kestrel and capercallzie. All the birds of the sea they trolled out rightbold when they smacked the big kuss of Tristan with Usolde."

My Water Genie example is from p. 478

"...yav hace not one pronouncable teerm that blows in all the vallums of tartallaght to signify majestate even provisionally nor no rheda rhoda or torpentine path or hallucinian via nor aurellian gape nor sunkin rut nor grossgown trek nor crimeslaved cruxway and no moorhens cry or mooner's plankgang there to lead us to hopenhaven."

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