riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend | |
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to | |
Howth Castle and Environs. | |
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- | |
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy | |
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor | |
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse | |
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper | |
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to | |
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a | |
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in | |
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a | |
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory | |
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. | |
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner- | |
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur- | |
nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later | |
on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the | |
offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, | |
erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends | |
an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: | |
and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park | |
where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev- | |
linsfirst loved livvy. This is literally the first page of a 628 page book all with the same poetic gobbledygook that only few can comprehend. Though i cannot understand a word of it i still find it very interesting and mystifying. |
Sunday 11 March 2012
Finnegans Wake Continued
I have now bought a copy of Finnegans Wake. I find it baffling, perplexing and astronomically confusing. Partly because it deviates languages here and there sometimes older styles of English then some Irish and the occasional made up word. The following is the first page of Finnegans Wake word for word:
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If anyone can work it out you can. Think laterally and not literally.
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