[♬ whackfolthediddlers]
[the site of the statue of Primewer Glasstone... the monument of the shouldhavebeen legislator] Dublin Corp rejected Gladstone statue in 1898
[Spare, woodman, spare] [♬ Woodman, Spare That Tree]
[Watling street, Icknild or Ricknild street, Ermin street]
[♬ halted cockney car]
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| kneepants |
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| three... balls (pawnshop) |
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| Ibsen's dundreary whiskers |
FDV: "the world was the richer for a new halfpenny ballad"
4DV: "the tale runs on, the trio were shortly joined by a further casual and a decent sort who had just pocketed the weekly insult and all had stimulants in the shape of five gee and gees stood by the decent sort after which all came out of the licensed premises wiping their mouth on their sleeve and the world was the richer for a new halfpenny ballad which was first sung under the shadow of the monument of the dead legislator to an overflow meeting fully filling the visional area and easily representative of all sections and cross sections of the Irish people ranging from slips of boys with pocketed hands and corporation bucket emergency men in search of an honest crust to busy professional gentlemen,"
mysteries: airwhackers, weedulicet, jumbobricks [antique candies?]
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the trio of whackfolthediddlers was joined
ReplyDeleteby a further-intentions-apply-tomorrow casual and a decent sort
of the hadbeen variety
who had just been touching the weekly insult, phew it,
and all figblabbers (who saith of noun?)
had stimulants in the shape of gee and gees
stood by the damn decent sort
after which stag luncheon and a few ones more just to celebrate yesterday,
flushed with their firestufffostered friendship,
the rascals came out of the licensed premises
(Browne first, the small p.s. ex-ex-executive capahand in their sad rear
like a lady's postscript: I want money. Pleasend.)
wiping their laughleaking lipes on their sleeves,
how the bouckaleens shout their roscan generally
(seinn fion, seinn fion's araun!),
and the rhymers' world was with reason the richer for a wouldbe ballad,
to the balladeer of which the world of cumannity singing owes a tribute
for having placed on the planet's melomap
his lay of the vilest bogeyer
but most attractionable avatar
the world has ever had to explain for.
This, more krectly, lubeen or fellow-me-lieder
was first poured forth where Riau Liviau riots and Colo de Houdo humps,
under the shadow of the monument of the shouldhavebeen legislator
(Eleutheriodendron! Spare, woodmann, spare!)
to an overflow meeting of all the nations in Lenster
fullyfilling the visional area
and, as a singleminded supercrowd,
easily representative, what with masks, whet with faces,
of all sections and cross sections
(wineshop and cocoahouse poured out to brim up the broaching)
of our liffeyside people
(to omit mention of the mainland minority
and such as had wayfared via Watling, Ernin, Icknild and Stane:
in chief a halted cockney car with its quotal of Hardmuth's hacks,
a northern tory, a southern whig,
an eastanglian chronicler and a landwester guardian)
ranging from slips of young dublinos from Cutpurse Row
having nothing better to do than walk about
with their hands in their kneepants,
sucking airwhackers, weedulicet, jumbobricks,
side by side with truant officers,
three woollen balls and poplin in search of a croust of pawn
to busy professional gentlemen,
a brace of palesmen with dundrearies, nooning toward Daly's,
fresh from snipehitting and mallardmissing on Rutland Heath,
exchanging cold sneers,
Joyce's own character list:
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Majesty
Michael (Manning?)
Elcock (Giubilei)
Aunt Sophy
2 Slavies
3 Fusiliers
Quidam
Cad
Cad's Wife
Sodality Priest
Frisky Shorty
Treacle Tom
Teacher
Hosty
O'Donnell
Cloran
Decent Sort
J A Cockshott
3 boardschool children
JFX Reserved Coppinger
Assailant on Heath
McPartland
Long Laddy Cumager [?]
Festus King
Roaring Peter
O'Donnell
The Dorans
Maggy
Shem [
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Magrath Bros.
Lily Kinsella
Sully
Maurice
"a brace of palesmen with dundrearies... fresh from snipehitting and mallardmissing... exchanging cold sneers"
ReplyDeletestrongly evokes the mustachioed king's snarky huntingparty on p31