Finnegans Wake Notes

085.01 in the bottol of the river and all his crewsers stock locked in the

085.02 burral of the seas!) who, when within the black of your toenail,

085.03 sir, of being mistakenly ambushed by one of the uddahveddahs,

085.04 and as close as made no matter, mam, to being kayoed offhand

085.05 when the hyougono heckler with the Peter the Painter wanted

085.06 to hole him, was consistently practising the first of the primary

085.07 and imprescriptible liberties of the pacific subject by circulating

085.08 (be British, boys to your bellybone and chuck a chum a chance!)

085.09 alongst one of our umphrohibited semitary thrufahrts, open to

085.10 buggy and bike, to walk, Wellington Park road, with the curb

085.11 or quaker's quacknostrum under his auxter and his alpenstuck in

085.12 his redhand, a highly commendable exercise, or, number two of

085.13 our acta legitima plebeia, on the brink (beware to baulk a man at

085.14 his will!) of taking place upon a public seat, to what, bare by

085.15 Butt's, most easterly (but all goes west!) of blackpool bridges, as

085.16 a public protest and naturlikevice, without intent to annoy either,

085.17 being praisegood thankfully for the wrathbereaved ringdove and

085.18 the fearstung boaconstrictor and all the more right jollywell

085.19 pleased, which he was, at having other people's weather.

[085.20-086.31]: Festy King is brought into court — the crown's allegations against him.

085.20 But to return to the atlantic and Phenitia Proper. As if that

085.21 were not to be enough for anyone but little headway, if any, was

085.22 made in solving the wasnottobe crime cunundrum when a child

085.23 of Maam, Festy King, of a family long and honourably associ-

085.24 ated with the tar and feather industries, who gave an address in

085.25 old plomansch Mayo of the Saxons in the heart of a foulfamed

085.26 potheen district, was subsequently haled up at the Old Bailey

085.27on the calends of Mars, under an incompatibly framed indictment

085.28 of both the counts (from each equinoxious points of view, the one

085.29 fellow's fetch being the other follow's person) that is to see, flying

085.30 cushats out of his ouveralls and making fesses immodst his forces

085.31 on the field. Oyeh! Oyeh! When the prisoner, soaked in methyl-

085.32 ated, appeared in dry dock, appatently ambrosiaurealised, like

085.33 Kersse's Korduroy Karikature, wearing, besides stains, rents and

085.34 patches, his fight shirt, straw braces, souwester and a policeman's

085.35 corkscrew trowswers, all out of the true (as he had purposely torn

085.36 up all his cymtrymanx bespokes in the mamertime), deposing for

Summary Page 85:

Now then, worming along gradually in our search for further evidence, we come to the problem of the political leanings and town pursuits of our forebear: (1) As to his Pacific pursuits—{a) he was given to walking or circulating along the public thoroughfares; (b) when mistakenly ambushed, he had been on the brink of taking place upon a public seat by Butt’s Bridge, without intent to annoy. (2) As to his Atlantic pursuits—little headway, if any, was being made toward the solution of this crime conundrum, when, on the calends of March, a certain Festy King [Shaun] was haled into court on an incompatibly framed indictment of both the counts. Soaked in methylated alcohol this Festy King appeared in dry dock, like Kersse’s* Korduroy Karikature, wearing his fight shirt, straw suspenders, sou’wester, and a policeman’s corkscrew trousers, all out of true.

*The story of Kersse will appear on p. 312. Kersse is Persse O’Reilly. Festy King gives us our first glimpse of Shaun. The witness is to be Shem.