Finnegans Wake Notes

035.01 us that it is true. They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as

035.02 calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how

035.03 one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it

035.04 fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in

035.05 appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages

035.06 after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all crea-

035.07 tion, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the

035.08 wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and

035.09 great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides

035.10 jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he

035.11 met a cad with a pipe. The latter, the luciferant not the oriuolate

035.12 (who, the odds are, is still berting dagabout in the same straw

035.13 bamer, carryin his overgoat under his schulder, sheepside out, so

035.14 as to look more like a coumfry gentleman and signing the pledge

035.15 as gaily as you please) hardily accosted him with: Guinness thaw

035.16 tool in jew me dinner ouzel fin? (a nice how-do-you-do in Pool-

035.17 black at the time as some of our olddaisers may still tremblingly

035.18 recall) to ask could he tell him how much a clock it was that the

035.19 clock struck had he any idea by cock's luck as his watch was

035.20 bradys. Hesitency was clearly to be evitated. Execration as cleverly

035.21 to be honnisoid. The Earwicker of that spurring instant, realising

035.22 on fundamental liberal principles the supreme importance, nexally

035.23 and noxally, of physical life (the nearest help relay being pingping

035.24 K. O. Sempatrick's Day and the fenian rising) and unwishful as

035.25 he felt of being hurled into eternity right then, plugged by a soft-

035.26 nosed bullet from the sap, halted, quick on the draw, and reply-

035.27 in that he was feelin tipstaff, cue, prodooced from his gunpocket

035.28 his Jurgensen's shrapnel waterbury, ours by communionism, his

035.29 by usucapture, but, on the same stroke, hearing above the skirl-

035.30 ing of harsh Mother East old Fox Goodman, the bellmaster, over

035.31 the wastes to south, at work upon the ten ton tonuant thunder-

035.32 ous tenor toller in the speckled church (Couhounin's call!) told

035.33 the inquiring kidder, by Jehova, it was twelve of em sidereal and

035.34 tankard time, adding, buttall, as he bended deeply with smoked

035.35 sardinish breath to give more pondus to the copperstick he pre-

035.36 sented (though this seems in some cumfusium with the chap-