Sunday, October 27, 2013

Page 53

Assigned reading (1+ pars [] plus 167 notes) [secondary] [McH]

A veiled sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed. In the distance along the course of the slow-flowing Liffey slender masts flecked the sky and, more distant still, the dim fabric of the city lay prone in haze. Like a scene on some vague arras, old as man's weariness, the image of the seventh city of christendom was visible to him across the timeless air, no older nor more weary nor less patient of subjection than in the days of the thingmote.

jaunting car (back-to-back, vs visavis)
[? insteadily with shoulder to shoulder]
[? Follow we up]
Fweet indexes 130 examples of stuttering

La arboro (tree-Shem-a-o)
lo petrusu (stone-Shaun-o-u)

[augustan peacebetothem]
[fortitudinous ajaxious rowdinoisy tenuacity]

fallow deers

sharkskin wallet

bannock bread

starchbox

FDV: "In words a bit duskish he aptly described the scene, the monolith rising stark from the twilight pinebarren, the bellwether the fallow doe belling softly her approach and how brightly outed his wallet and gives him a topping cheroot and says he was to suck that one and spend a half hour in Havana."

4DV: "In words a bit duskish he aptly described the scene, the monolith rising stark from the twilit pinebarren, the fallow doe belling softly her approach and how brightly he outed his wallet and gives him a topping cheroot and says he was to suck that one and spend a half hour in Havana."

mysteries:


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2 comments:

  1. I suspect "while daisy winks at her pinker sister among the tussocks" refers to women's nether regions

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    1. ...and while we're on that track, I don't see how the horse can mock the passengers, except by waving its ass in their faces?

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