The published edition famously missed an entire line, restored in FW2: "This is me Belchum sneaking his phillippy out of his most {toocisive bottle of Tilsiter. This is the libel on the battle.} Awful Grimmest Sunshat Cromwelly, Looted."
"me Belchum" is more often called Sackerson or Sigurdsen [siglum]
"Yaw", "Shee", "Ayi", and "Hee" all sort-of mean 'yes' in other languages
Is "Drink a sip, drankasup" a song lyric? (Needles and pins???) "With a nip nippy nip and a trip trippy trip"? [♬ But my heart's right there] [The Girl I ♬ Left Behind Me]
FDV: "This is the jinnies dispatch fontannoy the Willingdone. Dear Awthur, field gates your tiny frow? They think to cotch the Willingdone. This the Willingdone dispatch. Cherry jinny, damn fairy ann, voutre, Willingdone. Pip. This is Prooshing balls. This the ffrinch! Tip. Guns, this is jinnies in blootchers, this is the frinches in the redditches. This is the Willingdone order, fire! Tonerre!"
Here's a first attempt to clean up Joyce's diagram. Can anyone explain its relation to the text, or to the historical battle? The jinnies should be the two (upsidedown) Ts, who seem to be running off to the lower right, but also encircling the Libra-mound ("our mounding's mass"?), along with two Ss for Belchum? The lipoleums are Shaun-Tristram-Shem and appear inverted on either side of the mountain range at the top. There's an X and some sawhorse-looking shapes...?
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This is me Belchum sneaking his phillippy out of his most toocisive bottle of Tilsiter.
ReplyDeleteThis is the libel on the battle. Awful Grimmest Sunshat Cromwelly, Looted.
This is the jinnies' hastings dispatch for to irrigate the Willingdone.
Dispatch in thin red lines across the shortfront of me Belchum. Yaw, yaw, yaw!
Leaper Orthor. Fear siecken! Fieldgaze thy tiny frow. Hugacting. Nap.
That was the tictacs of the jinnies for to fontannoy the Willingdone. Shee, shee, shee!
The jinnies is jillous agincourting all the lipoleums.
And the lipoleums is gonn boycotton crezy onto the one Willingdone.
And the Willingdone git the band up.
This is bode Belchum, bonnet to busby,
breaking his secred word with a ball up his ear to the Willingdone.
This is the Willingdone's hurold dispitchback.
Dispitch desployed on the regions rare of me Belchum.
Salamangral! Ayi, ayi, ayi! Cherry jinnies. Figtreeyou! Damn fairy ann. Voutre. Willingdone.
That was the first joke of Willingdone, tic for tac. Hee, hee, hee!
This is me Belchum in his twelvemile cowchooks,
weet, tweet and stampforth foremost, footing the camp for the jinnies.
Drinkasip, drankasup, for he'd as sooner buy a guinness than he'd stale store stout.
This is Rooshious balls. This is a ttrinch. This is mistletropes.
This is Canon Futter with the popynose after his hundred days' indulgence.
This is the blessed. Tarra's widdars!
This is jinnies in the bonny bawn blooches.
This is lipoleums in the rowdy howses.
This is the Willingdone, by the splinters of Cork, order fire. Tonnerre! (Bullsear! Play!)
This is camelry, this is floodens, this is the solphereens in actiom,
this is their mobbily, this is panickburns. Almeidagad! Arthiz tooloose!
This is Willingdone cry. Brum! Brum! Cumbrum!
This is jinnies cry. Underwetter! Ghoat strip Finnlambs!
This is jinnies rinning away to their ousterlists dowan a bunkersheels.
With a nip nippy nip and a trip trippy trip so airy. For their heart's right there. Tip.
This is me Belchum's tinkyou tankyou silvoor plate
for citchin the crapes in the cool of his canister. Poor the pay!
This is the bissmark of the marathon merry of the jinnies they left behind them.
This is the Willingdone branlish his same marmorial tallowscoop Sophy-key-po
for his royal divorsion on the rinnaway jinnies. Gambariste della porca! Dalaveras fimmieras!
It's easy to find Freudian hints of exhibitionism, masturbation and sodomy: the original sin in the park? Could Bloom be the guilty dreamer?
ReplyDeleteWellington is HCE, victorious? The jinnies are the French/Napoleon? The lipoleums are British troops on the Mont-Saint-Jean escarpment? And Belchum is Blucher's Prussian troops???
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