Finnegans Wake Notes

098.01 a hundred of manhood and a wimmering of weibes. Big went

098.02 the bang: then wildewide was quiet: a report: silence: last Fama

098.03 put it under ether. The noase or the loal had dreven him blem,

098.04 blem, stun blem. Sparks flew. He had fled again (open shun-

098.05 shema!) this country of exile, sloughed off, sidleshomed via the

098.06 subterranean shored with bedboards, stowed away and ankered

098.07 in a dutch bottom tank, the Arsa, hod S.S. Finlandia, and was

098.08 even now occupying, under an islamitic newhame in his seventh

098.09 generation, a physical body Cornelius Magrath's (badoldkarak-

098.10 ter, commonorrong canbung) in Asia Major, where as Turk of

098.11 the theater (first house all flatty: the king, eleven sharps) he had

098.12 bepiastered the buikdanseuses from the opulence of his omni-

098.13 box while as arab at the streetdoor he bepestered the bumbashaws

098.14 for the alms of a para's pence. Wires hummed. Peacefully general

098.15 astonishment assisted by regrettitude had put a term till his exis-

098.16 tence: he saw the family saggarth, resigned, put off his remain-

098.17 ders, was recalled and scrapheaped by the Maker. Chirpings

098.18 crossed. An infamous private ailment (vulgovarioveneral) had

098.19 claimed endright, closed his vicious circle, snap. Jams jarred.

098.20 He had walked towards the middle of an ornamental lilypond

098.21 when innebriated up to the point where braced shirts meet knic-

098.22 kerbockers, as wangfish daring the buoyant waters, when rod-

098.23 men's firstaiding hands had rescued un from very possibly several

098.24 feel of demifrish water. Mush spread. On Umbrella Street where

098.25 he did drinks from a pumps a kind workman, Mr Whitlock,

098.26 gave him a piece of wood. What words of power were made fas

098.27 between them, ekenames and auchnomes, acnomina ecnumina?

098.28 That, O that, did Hansard tell us, would gar ganz Dub's ear

098.29 wag in every pub of all the citta! Batty believes a baton while

098.30 Hogan hears a hod yet Heer prefers a punsil shapner and Cope

098.31 and Bull go cup and ball. And the Cassidy — Craddock rome

098.32 and reme round e'er a wiege ne'er a waage is still immer and

098.33 immor awagering over it,a cradle with a care in it or a casket

098.34 with a kick behind. Toties testies quoties questies. The war is

098.35 in words and the wood is the world. Maply me, willowy we,

098.36 hickory he and yew yourselves. Howforhim chirrupeth evereach-

Summary page 98:

Big went the bang: then the wide world was quiet: a report: silence. Had he fled again this country of exile? It was said that he escaped via underground as a stowaway in a Dutch bottom and was even now occupying a physical body, Cornelius Magrath’s to wit, in Asia Minor, where as Turk of the Theater he was annoying the belly dancers, even while as street arab he was pestering the public for alms. Another rumor had it that he had been re¬ called and scrapped by the Maker. Others declared he had been claimed by an infamous disease. Or again, he had walked, while inebriate, into a lily pond where first-aiding hands had rescued him. Still again, it was said that on Umbrella Street a kind of workman, Mr. Whitlock, had given him a piece of wood. And now everyone wanted to know what those two could have said to each other, and what the piece of wood might have been.