#'the pine-tree shakes down it sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head'

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Every other paragraph in this book seems to contain a line that makes my heart go warm with emotion, what the heckkk

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+ 1 john tendrils crab

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[Love wins.]

[But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd’s head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd’s eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies—what is the one charm wanting?—Water—there is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.]

[stufftobringjoy]

Moby Dick

CHAPTER 1. Loomings

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time tozz get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster— tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?

But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,— north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd’s head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd’s eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among tiger-lilies—what is the one charm wanting?— Water— there is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

[ulyssesredux]

Proteus

His feet marched in sudden proud rhythm over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his death. I know the voice.

Of Ireland, the city of lutes and dancing; but my father once ruled as King. Forget: a dispossessed. —Blind bodies, the nearing tide, figures, two. He lay back at full stretch over the rocks, in her wake.

I prefer Q. Fumbally's lane that night: the ruffian and his strolling mort. Warring his life long upon the golden head, where on the shore; at the dancers and flute-players. You prayed to the squalid cot of an antique shepherd, hearing Elsinore's tempting flood. How? A lex eterna stays about Him.

They have forgotten Kevin Egan, not even my own brother, nosing closer, went round it, sigh of leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the golden head whilst he sang of Aira, and things that never can be! Now where the shadows danced on the marsh a radiance like that which a child sees quivering on the moonbeams when my mother sang to himself in a barge down the shelving shore flabbily, their bloodbeaked prows riding low on a molten pewter surf. And the men of Teloth heard these things they whispered to, they bade the stranger. Who? He takes me, form of my form?

—Let him in a far corner. The two maries. Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, nor his chaplet of vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the myriad light of Oonai were not as mine, so I traveled in a stable, and some laughed and some laughed and some went to sleep. The aunt thinks you killed your mother. Diaphane, adiaphane. Hello! She had no navel. I am not old in the spring and think of the temple out of horror of his buttoned trouserfly. No. They waded a little way in the other names thou hast not known Aira since the old hag with the yellow teeth. Yes, evening will find itself in me, like Algy, coming down to our mighty mother. I like not your face by the sluggish river Zuro sat a young thing's. Hunger toothache. Take all, keep all. You were a student, weren't you? Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. O Sion. —Mother dying come home father.

Here, I feel.

The lights of Oonai were not like those of Aira, city of lutes and dancing clad only in the square before the Tower of Mlin, though they liked not the passing of time through very short times of space with coloured emblems hatched on its field. Pico della Mirandola like. He turned northeast and crossed the firmer sand towards the drier sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the citadel and the visions that danced on houses of marble and beryl, splendid in a stable, and soft songs, save in the shallows. You have some.

Why is that, eh?

Peasants had told them they were harsh and glaring, while the lights of Oonai the camel-drivers whisper leeringly. Lap, lapin. Il est irlandais. Clouding over.

The rich of a silent tower, entombing their—blind bodies, the slender trees, the superman. No. Fumbally's lane that night: lifted, flooded and let fall. They are coming, waves and waves.

But you were delighted when Esther Osvalt's shoe went on you: and wait. Sands and stones.

Loose sand and shellgrit crusted her bare feet. And in a gilded and tapestried chamber on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant, lunging with it: they do. Water cold soft. Lump of love. They ate plentifully of fruit and red berries, and marked not the color of his dreams of mine old playmate Iranon who is gone. A sentinel: isle of dreadful thirst. O, that's all right.

Exactly: and that is the ineluctable visuality. Paradise of pretenders then and now may not will me away or ever. Under the upswelling tide he halted with stiff forehoofs, seawardpointed ears. Coloured on a flat: yes, but one day the King brought to the sun. Then he was and a ghostwoman with ashes on her breath. Basta! I reign over thy groves and in hopes that I wandered to many cities. Et erant valde bona.

What has she in the transept he is kneeling twang in diphthong. Vehement breath of waters. His breath hangs over our saucestained plates, the slender trees, the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d'Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the granite city, and a man. Wait. They are waiting for him now. She always kept things decent in the water and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock. You prayed to the palace some wild whirling dancers from the bed of sweet carven wood with canopies and coverlets of flower-embroidered silk. Then here's a health to Mulligan's aunt and I'll tell you. The two maries. Belluomo rises from the Liranian desert, and green gardens with cerulean pools and crystal fountains. Coloured on a bed of his death. Sir. In all the cities of Cydathria and in the lands beyond the veil of the seventeenth of February 1904 the prisoner was seen by two witnesses. Staunch friend, a silent tower, entombing their—blind bodies, the city of lutes and dancing, which men whisper of and say is both lovely and terrible. Out of that, I wonder. Dogskull, dogsniff, eyes on the ground in tripudium, foot I dislove.

To no end gathered; vainly then released, forthflowing, wending back: loom of the air. Why is that word? Eating your groatsworth of mou en civet, fleshpots of Egypt, elbowed by belching cabmen. He counted the creases of rucked leather wherein another's foot had nested warm.

The dog's bark ran towards him, stopped, sniffed, stalked round it, brother, nosing closer, went round it, brother, nosing closer, went round it, you know that welcome shall wait me only in the moon's midwatches I pace the path above the rocks as he is rocked to sleep; for they were come into the waters to spy green budding branches in Teloth must toil, replied the archon, for it is so decreed of Fate. When dawn came Iranon looked about with dismay, for, O Iranon of the past. A misbirth with a tail of nans and sutlers, a singer of songs, he brought pictures to his own cheek. In cups of rocks it slops: flop, slop, slap: bounded in barrels. I am lonely here. But you were someone else, Stevie: a fourworded wavespeech: seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos.

With mother's money order, eight shillings, the more. Shake a shake. And sometimes at sunset I would not leave thee to pine by the hand. And when they were both happy after a fashion. A quiver of minnows, fat of a silent ship. I just simply stood pale, silent, bayed about. Here.

Of all the great cataract, and where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil of space with coloured emblems hatched on its field. He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the day. Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the betrayed, wild escapes. A shut door of a silent tower, entombing their—blind bodies, the nearing tide, that was drowned nine days ago off Maiden's rock.

What she? A bolt drawn back and Walter welcomes me. He has nothing to sit down on his path. Jesus!

Staunch friend, a naked woman shining in her courts, she draws a toil of waters.

There he is kneeling twang in diphthong. To evening lands. That was the rule, said. I wouldn't let my brother, Thomas Fitzgerald, silken knight, Perkin Warbeck, York's false scion, in the pools, and sing to the palace some wild whirling dancers from the burnished caldron. It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.

Then he was old, beautiful, and look down upon Aira, a woman to her mouth's kiss. —C'est tordant, vous savez. Hide gold there. Put me on to Edenville. Pain is far. I see her skirties.

One moment. Famine, plague and slaughters. The Bruce's brother, not here. Did I not going there? See now. My cockle hat and staff and hismy sandal shoon.

Like me, spoke.

White thy fambles, red thy gan and thy quarrons dainty is. He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the domes of Oonai. A garland of grey hair on his path.

Among gumheavy serpentplants, milkoozing fruits, where none would listen gladly to his own cheek. —C'est tordant, vous savez ah, oui! I taught him to sing The boys of Kilkenny … Weak wasting hand on mine. Then one night to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the suck and turned back by the hand.

Licentious men. But he was always the same, and sing in gardens when the stars one by one bring dreams to the palace some wild whirling dancers from the wet street. The oval equine faces, Temple, Buck Mulligan, Foxy Campbell, Lanternjaws. Dringdring! Who watches me here? About her windraw face hair trailed. Saint Ambrose heard it, brother, not here. Encore deux minutes. That man led me, without me. Shouldering their bags they trudged, the things remembered of childhood. His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of air: mouth to her lover clinging, the things I married into! We enjoyed ourselves immensely. Sounds solid: made by the window where I may find Aira, delight of the diaphane. Bridebed, childbed, bed of death, where shall be rest without end, and in the cakey sand dough. Easy now. No.

And if you died to all men? O the boys of Kilkenny are stout roaring blades. Abbas.

My Latin quarter hat. Paysayenn.

Open your eyes and a writ of Duces Tecum. In those groves and gardens, thy streets and palaces, and I told myself that when older I would go to a dentist, I feel. And thinking thus, they bade the stranger in a past life. I think not. M. Millevoye, Felix Faure, know how he died? This wind is sweeter. Warring his life still to be sent if you toil; is it Tuesday will be the longest day. Day by day: night by night: the ruffian and his hopes. Bits all khrrrrklak in place clack back. Dan Occam thought of that, I must. You bowed to yourself in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds. Houses of decay, mine to be sent if you died to all men? He turned his face over a floor that was a strapping young gossoon at that time, but one day. Crush, crack, crick. About us gobblers fork spiced beans down their gullets. All or not? Goes like this. But you were going to write. Of what in the transept he is rocked to sleep with song. And the soldiers at Jaren laughed at me and now may not will me away or ever. Soft soft soft hand.

Sad too. But you were going to aunt Sara's or not? And day by day beside a livid sea, unbeheld, in sable silvered, hearing, looked long and strangely at Iranon as at the wavenoise, herds of seamorse. Goes like this. Am I not take it up? Descende, calve, ut ne amplius decalveris. Unheeded he kept by them as they came towards the Pigeonhouse. Postprandial. All in Teloth must toil, replied the archon was sullen and did not understand, and as he is lifting his and all.

But he was old, and in the Hannigan famileye. Did, faith. He takes me, form of forms. Let us go to Sinara I found the dromedary-men all drunken and ribald, and unlike the radiant men of Oonai. By the way go easy with that money like a whale. I am Romnod, and for long wandered amidst the green hills and cool forests. A side eye at my side. A side eye at my side. I must.

If you can put your five fingers through it it is told that thou hast not known Aira since the old days, and as he, though Iranon was always the same, and decked his golden hair, and his hopes. She had no navel. I think not. Exactly: and ever shall be rest without end, and song. If I had land under my feet. A school of turlehide whales stranded in hot noon, spouting, hobbling in the basin at Clongowes.

We have him. Old Father Ocean. He has nothing to sit down on his broadtoed boots, a zebra skirt, frisky as a young thing's. I am not old in the dark. Bridebed, childbed, bed of death, where shall be, world without end, and some laughed and some laughed and some went to Sinara on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the frigid Xari, where shall be the longest day. Into the sunset wandered Iranon, seeking something green, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his banquet-couch and died writhing, whilst Iranon, though Iranon was sad he ceased not to sing The boys of Kilkenny are stout roaring blades. He turned his face over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the window where I was, faith. Try it. White thy fambles, red thy gan and thy quarrons dainty is. Their blood is in me, form of my enemy. And peradventure it may be that Oonai the city of Aira, the city of marble.

I would climb the long hilly street to the air, his eyeballs stars. Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial? Dringdring! In those groves and gardens, thy streets and palaces, and I shall wait.

His shadow lay over the dial floor. By them, the things I am here to beach, in violet night walking beneath a reign of uncouth stars. Lord, is he going to write. Why not endless till the floor seemed to reflect old, beautiful woman, La Patrie, M. Millevoye, Felix Faure, know how he died? Belluomo rises from the crested tide, that was a Prince in Aira. He comes, pale vampire, through storm his eyes with beauty. Must be two of em. Put a pin in that chap, will you? I wonder, with clotted hinderparts.

Shells. No black clouds anywhere, are there? In long lassoes from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with rings of green jade and bracelets of tinted ivory, and his pointer.

A woman and a man. The new air greeted him, for we knew him from his nostril on a stony slope above a quicksand marsh.

Where are your wits? They are coming, waves. A boat would be near, a brother soul: Wilde's Requiescat. Exactly: and that is below the great cataract, and have gazed on the moonbeams when my mother sang to me out, so I traveled in a past life. Behold, when shall happiness find you? I sing in gardens when the moon, and none can tell of it without rapture, whilst Iranon, as the stars came out Iranon would sing and have gazed on the marsh a radiance like that which a child sees quivering on the ground, moves to one another, and unlike the radiant men of Aira, a changeling, among the pale flowers under the trees. A E, pimander, good shepherd of men. Who to clear it? Am I not take it up? Whusky!

His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of a spongy titbit, flash through the slits of his ashplant in a far city, and where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? She thought you were going to attack me? Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a changeling, among the pale flowers under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame and acrid smoke light our corner. —We thought you were delighted when Esther Osvalt's shoe went on you: girl I knew in Paris; boul' Mich', I bet. Mrs Florence MacCabe, relict of the cathedral close. Try it. Did, faith. He drones bars of Ferrando's aria di sortita. Loose sand and shellgrit crusted her bare feet. A jet of coffee steam from the Liranian desert, and at evening told again of his tattered robe, nor even laugh or frown at what we say. His lips lipped and mouthed fleshless lips of a dog all over the singer's head.

Thanking you for the warm groves and gardens, thy streets and palaces, and be apprenticed to him: thy quarrons dainty is.

It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling. Loveless, landless, wifeless. In the frescoed halls of the gone. Now where the shadows danced on houses of marble and beryl where my father once ruled as King. The aunt thinks you killed your mother. Welcome as the stars came out one by one and the distant lands of beauty and song is folly. Waters: bitter death: lost. Patrice his white. His snout lifted barked at the dancers and flute-players. We used to love, he said.

Lascivious people. I wandered to many cities.

At the sunset wandered Iranon, as to so many others: Canst thou tell me, their mouths yellowed with the yellow teeth. My soul walks with me, their pushedback chairs, my obelisk valise, porter threepence, across the Karthian hills, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

Her fancyman is treating two Royal Dublins in O'Loughlin's of Blackpitts. Cleanchested. —Morrow, nephew. Jesus by M. Leo Taxil. I was young. Houyhnhnm, horsenostrilled. Of Aira did he sing, and his crown of vine-leaves, nor the youth in his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. And Monsieur Drumont, famous journalist, Drumont, know what he called queen Victoria? She lives in Leeson park with a fury of his dreams, and some day shall I reign over thy groves and in the shallows. There was a city of marble and beryl, how many are thy beauties! The carcass lay on his broadtoed boots, a dull brick muffler strangling his unshaven neck. Thither would I go to Sinara I found the dromedary-men all drunken and ribald, and my eyes and see. Often I played in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds. Ineluctable. His breath hangs over our saucestained plates, the city of Aira, delight of the past. She, she, she, she said, and his strolling mort. Shouldering their bags and, whispered to, they sigh. Full fathom five thy father lies.

Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and yellow stockings, darned with lumpy wool. Wait. So much the better. You will not be master of others or their slave. Out quickly, quickly! A woman and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, rising, flowing. O yes, that's all right. Dringdring! His speckled body ambled ahead of them bodies before of them coloured. O, O. They waded a little way in the vale the children wove wreathes for one another, and dusky flute-players. But think not. Un demi setier! Were not death more pleasing? In the frescoed halls of the blood of Teloth lodged the stranger in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his hearers till the floor seemed to reflect old, beautiful, and listened with less delight to the revelers threw their roses not so small, and the window was the rule, said. When the men of Aira and its beauties and Romnod would listen, so Iranon and tossed him flowers and the open place, and some went to sleep with song. Hold hard. Full fathom five thy father lies. Where is she? He counted the creases of rucked leather wherein another's foot had nested warm. But because the people had thrown him blossoms and acclaimed his sings Iranon stayed ever young, and in the house but backache pills. Call away let him: Are you not? The words you speak are blasphemy, for it is told that thou hast not known Aira since the old hag with the things remembered of childhood. Beyond the Karthian hills, which men whisper of and say is both lovely and terrible.

The banknotes, blast them. Do you see the tide he halted with stiff forehoofs, seawardpointed ears. We thought you were delighted when Esther Osvalt's shoe went on you: and wait.

A bogoak frame over his bald head: Wilde's love that dare not speak its name. His arm: Cranly's arm. Where are your wits? Take all, keep all. At evening Iranon sang, he scanned the shore south, his and, crouching, saw a nimbus over the grave of Romnod and strewn it with green branches, such as Romnod used to love, he said, Tous les messieurs. I am not a strong swimmer. Ah, poor dogsbody! They waded a little way in the Hannigan famileye. Me sits there with his aunt Sally? At the lacefringe of the stranger's face, and be happy? Fang, I bet. In the frescoed halls of the poor. My soul walks with me in the most natural tone: when I was rocked to sleep; for Iranon told nothing useful, singing only his memories, his eyeballs stars. Descende, calve, ut ne amplius decalveris. So Iranon went out of them bodies before of them coloured. Hurray for the press. It is not there. Go easy. Why not endless till the farthest star? His pace slackened. Among gumheavy serpentplants, milkoozing fruits, where shall be the longest day. Warring his life long upon the golden domes and painted walls, and after that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the Cock lake the water flowed full, covering greengoldenly lagoons of sand, trotting, sniffing on all sides. She lives in Leeson park with a fury of his buttoned trouserfly. The boys of Kilkenny are stout roaring blades. Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and yellow stockings, darned with lumpy wool. Già. In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia. Hray! I am not old in the sand furrows, along by the Poolbeg road to Malahide. Mrs Florence MacCabe, deeply lamented, of Bride Street.

Where are your wits? Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, deeply lamented, of Bride Street. No, the dingy printingcase, his eyeballs stars.

Lent it to his friend. Abbas. My ashplant will float away.

I am Iranon, as if recalling something very far away in time, and have gazed on the higher beach a dryingline with two crucified shirts. Let him in a robe of purple; but my father was thy King and I would climb the long hilly street to the Karthian hills lies Oonai, O Iranon of the audible. The way was rough and obscure, and have dwelt long in Olathoe in the dark. On the night of the tide he saw a nimbus over the singer's head.

Here lies poor dogsbody's body. O, my people, with upstiffed omophorion, with rushes of the temple out of the future. Sad too. Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, when shall happiness find you? Dead breaths I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead. Pico della Mirandola like. I sought thee, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his kind ran from them to the songs of Iranon. Into the sunset Iranon and small Romnod went down the shelving shore flabbily, their splayed feet sinking in the granite city, and look down upon the golden head whilst he sang, and his golden voice. At the sunset wandered Iranon, seeking still for his native city of lutes and dancing, so I traveled in a stable, and with him Romnod, and crystal fountains. Sir Lout's toys. Of all the time without you: girl I knew once in Barcelona, queer fellow, used to laugh at him, harping in wild nerves, wind of wild air of seeds of brightness.

Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial? Je ne crois pas en l'existence de Dieu. How often hath he sung to me out of Oonai were not golden in the basin at Clongowes. The new air greeted him, stopped, sniffed, stalked round it, sigh of leaves and gazing ahead as if recalling something very far away in time, and Iranon knew that this was not a hundredth as fair as Aira. One moment. And if you suffer no singers among you, where on the floor as he bent over far to a table of rock, resting his ashplant, lunging with it: they do. His gaze brooded on his eyes to hear his boots are at the land a maze of dark cunning nets; farther away, walking warily. I shall come again to thee.

Mon pere, oui! So Iranon went out of turnedup trousers slapped the clammy sand, on boulders. Then from the hills by the usher.

Sure he's not down in Strasburg terrace with his aunt Sally? Did you see.

Deux irlandais, nous, Irlande, vous savez ah, oui. Five, six: the ruffian and his crown of vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. In those groves and in the sun. Sure? Turning, he lapped the sweet lait chaud with pink young tongue, plump bunny's face. I told myself that when older I would try. See what I meant, see? She thought you wanted a cheese hollandais. That is why mystic monks. Glue em well. O stranger, I see her skirties.

The aunt thinks you killed your mother. —Blind bodies, the stoneheaps of dead builders, a buck's castoffs, nebeneinander. The cry brought him skulking back to his songs and dreams would bring pleasure. At evening Iranon sang, he said, Tous les messieurs. Bath a most private thing. Yes, but many years must have slipped away. Dringdring!

The man that was a mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. —He has the key.

For the rest let look who will. Cousin Stephen, how is uncle Si? Aira's beauty is past imagining, and his crown of vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if recalling something very far away in time, I bet. Where is she? She trusts me, won't you? No, agallop: deline the mare? Hide gold there. A woman and a name often changes. The two maries. I went to sleep with song. I learned in the lands beyond the veil of space with coloured emblems hatched on its field. Tell Pat you saw me, more still! Somewhere to someone in your face by the sluggish Zuro. Moving through the braided jesse of her sisterhood lugged me squealing into life. Shut your eyes and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Buss her, wap in rogues' rum lingo, for all was of stone. I would try. Why not endless till the floor as he, though here we knew him from his jaws. The sun is there, his eyeballs stars. Moist pith of farls of bread, the snorted Latin of jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the yellow teeth. That's twice I forgot to take slips from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my obelisk valise, porter threepence, across the Karthian hills lies Oonai, the Dalcassians, of Arthur Griffith now, A E, pimander, good shepherd of men. I was but young when we went into exile; but my father once ruled as King. Here, I have seen Stethelos that is the ineluctable modality of the town was not afraid. —Tatters! In gay Paree he hides, Egan of Paris men go by, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores. And no more turn aside and brood. A shefiend's whiteness under her brown shawl from an archway where dogs have mired.

All days make their end. Vieille ogresse with the yellow teeth.

His hat down on his broadtoed boots, a lady of letters. Under the upswelling tide he halted with stiff forehoofs, seawardpointed ears. Someone was to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the panthersahib and his hopes. Bridebed, childbed, bed of sweet carven wood with canopies and coverlets of flower-embroidered silk. The oval equine faces, Temple, Buck Mulligan, Foxy Campbell, Lanternjaws.

That's twice I forgot to take slips from the library counter. Did I not take it up?

Five fathoms out there.

And Monsieur Drumont, know what he did? A shefiend's whiteness under her rancid rags. He counted the creases of rucked leather wherein another's foot had nested warm.

Highly respectable gondoliers! Tell Pat you saw me, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores. The way was rough and obscure, and in hopes that I learned in the water and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock. I can see. Prix de paris: beware of imitations. Flat I see her skirties.

Beauty is not life made of beauty and song. They take me for a chair. Soft eyes. Go thou then to Athok the cobbler or be gone out of the stable and walked over the rocks as he bent, ending. His pace slackened.

Già. They waded a little way in the far city that I recall only dimly but seek to find the way go easy with that money like a bounding hare, ears flung back, strandentwining cable of all link back, came nearer, trotted on twinkling shanks. You will not be master of others or their slave. Thunderstorm. Bring in our chippendale chair. His shadow lay over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a bed of his knees a sturdy forearm. His hindpaws then scattered the sand, crouched in flight. No. I will attend thy songs at evening told again of his green grave, his feet sinking again slowly in new sockets. From the liberties, out for the warm groves and the visions that danced on houses of marble. You shall show me the ways of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock and from under his feet. Sell your soul for that, I am not old in the cakey sand dough. My Latin quarter hat. Broken hoops on the ground, moves to one another, and the distant lands of beauty and song.

I hear. That is why mystic monks. —Call me Richie. None of your medieval abstrusiosities. Mind you don't get one bang on the floor as he, though he had come nearer the edge of the late Patk MacCabe, deeply deep, copies to be mine. You are walking through it it is a gate, if not a strong swimmer. We don't want any of your artist brother Stephen lately? He stood suddenly, his bat sails bloodying the sea and wet sand slapped his boots. Turn back.

Driving before it a loose drift of rubble, fanshoals of fishes, silly shells. But he must seek the mountains. Along by the window where I may find Aira, city of lutes and dancing.

Then one night when the moon cast on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a dull brick muffler strangling his unshaven neck. I said.

The oval equine faces, Temple, Buck Mulligan, Foxy Campbell, Lanternjaws. Where is she?

Sad too. —Let him in satin and cloth-of-gold, with rings of green jade and bracelets of tinted ivory, wonder of a playmate, a rag of wolf's tongue redpanting from his birth. Mouth to her moomb. Toothless Kinch, the nearing tide, figures, two. The two maries. In the frescoed halls of the cathedral close. Rich booty you brought back; Le Tutu, five tattered numbers of Pantalon Blanc et Culotte Rouge; a blue French telegram, curiosity to show: Mother dying come home father. Out of that, you mug. But I am caught in this burning scene. When I put my face into it in the far city, and the flowers and applauded when he was aware of them and then loped off at a time. Behind her lord, his bat sails bloodying the sea, on sand, rising, heard now I am Iranon, as the stars one by one bring dreams to the songs of Iranon. Hook it quick. I was, faith. Then he was aware of them, Stephen, how many are thy beauties! Dominie Deasy kens them a'. I wandered to many cities. Ferme. But you were delighted when Esther Osvalt's shoe went on you: and ever shall be rest without end. He was comely, even as he, though I have been to Thraa, Ilarnek, and none can tell of it without rapture, whilst Iranon, though Iranon was sad he ceased not to sing The boys of Kilkenny are stout roaring blades. Easy now. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is going too. Morose delectation Aquinas tunbelly calls this, brown eyes saltblue. —Il croit? But Oonai was a mirror, and some went to sleep with song. Whusky! Sands and stones. I pace the path above the many-colored hills in summer, and dull with wine, till he dreamed less and less, and with him Romnod, who listened to the verdant valleys and hills forested with yath trees? He lay back at full stretch over the sand furrows, along by the boulders of the Lochlanns ran here to beach, in sable silvered, hearing Elsinore's tempting flood. What is that word? He has washed the upper moiety. And and and tell us, Stephen, in borrowed sandals, by day that Romnod who had been very small when Iranon had found him watching for green budding branches in Teloth must toil, replied the archon, for all was of stone. The aunt thinks you killed your mother. Welcome as the flowers in May. Get back then by the shipworm, lost Armada. Making his day's stations, the froggreen wormwood, her hand. He laps. And and and and and tell us, Stephen, how is uncle Si? I was not his native city of lutes and dancing; but in the vale the children wove wreathes for one another, and half-remembered things instead of the world, including Alexandria? And these, the city by sunset. If I had land under my feet. A drowning man. Un demi setier! Under the upswelling tide he saw a flame and acrid smoke light our corner. My tablets. You seem to have enjoyed yourself. That's twice I forgot to take slips from the lips of a silent ship. Dane vikings, torcs of tomahawks aglitter on their creepystools in heaven spilt from their pintpots, loudlatinlaughing: Euge! Her fancyman is treating two Royal Dublins in O'Loughlin's of Blackpitts. They serpented towards his feet up from the burnished caldron.

Ah, see? Couch a hogshead with me then in the mirror, and half-remembered things instead of shrilly, though Iranon was sad he ceased not to sing The boys of Kilkenny … Weak wasting hand on mine. I were suddenly naked here as I saw below me the ways of the past. I dreamed strange dreams, who rubs male nakedness in the gros lots. No-one. He stood suddenly, his fists bigdrumming on his path. My wealth is in our souls do you know: physiques, chimiques et naturelles.

Ineluctable. Yes, sir? Soft eyes. When the men of Teloth, but many years must have slipped away. Faces of Paris men go by, their lusts my waves. How? Soft soft soft hand. Why is that word known to all men? Basta! See now. See what I meant, see? M. Millevoye, Felix Faure, know how he died? Toil without song is like a bite of something? What else were they invented for? My ashplant will float away. His shadow lay over the grave of Romnod and strewn it with green branches, such as Romnod used to call it his postprandial. The boys of Kilkenny … Weak wasting hand on mine. There he is lifting his and all.

O, O Iranon of the Monarch did he speak much; of Aira and the visions that danced on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada.

Hunger toothache. A bloated carcass of a widowed see, with clotted hinderparts. With mother's money order, eight shillings, the dog. I am not old in the granite city there is someone. And after?

Wrist through the air, his and all. Houses of decay, mine, form of forms. Moi, je suis socialiste. Blue dusk, nightfall, deep blue night. We have him. Paris. Spoils slung at her back. It lowers.

Raw facebones under his feet. The blue fuse burns deadly between hands and burns clear.

And the blame? Wait. Why is that, I wonder, by Christ! I will not sleep there when this night comes. His shadow lay over the rocks, swirling, passing.

Goes like this. My Latin quarter hat. Look clock. That one is going too. My consubstantial father's voice. Then here's a health to Mulligan's aunt and I'll tell you the reason why. You will see if I can see. Damn your lithia water.

Paradise of pretenders then and now may not will me away or ever. She trusts me, like Algy, coming down to our mighty mother. Hollandais? The virgin at Hodges Figgis' window on Monday looking in for one another; for though in the elder world.

Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, nor even laugh or frown at what we say. Shattered glass and toppling masonry.

Here. Staunch friend, a mahamanvantara. Staunch friend, a scullion crowned. Must get. A school of turlehide whales stranded in hot noon, spouting, hobbling in the shallows.

She lives in Leeson park with a herring? Day by day: night by night: the tanyard smells. Couch a hogshead with me in the twilight, the things remembered of childhood. The drone of his death. Did, faith. Has all vanished since? And the soldiers at Jaren laughed at his secrets. Abbas. I wonder, by day beside a livid sea, on boulders. Come. None of your artist brother Stephen lately? Thanking you for murder somewhere. You prayed to the west, trekking to evening lands. Ought I go were I old enough to find again.

Highly respectable gondoliers! Why not endless till the floor seemed to reflect old, and never did they seem nearer to Oonai the city of marble and beryl. You will see if I can watch it flow past from here. I would try. For the old days, and my calling is to make beauty with the fat of a dog lay lolled on bladderwrack. In. His pace slackened. The grainy sand had gone from under a midden of man's ashes. They are waiting for him now. And the King brought to the shop of Athok the cobbler, and at dusk I dreamed strange dreams, who liked the revelry of the tide flowing quickly in on all fours, again reared up at them with mute bearish fawning. The rich of a playmate, a dull brick muffler strangling his unshaven neck. O stranger, I feel. Where is poor dear Arius to try conclusions? And peradventure it may be that Oonai the city were the palaces of veined and tinted marble, with rings of green jade and bracelets of tinted ivory, and sing to smiling dromedary-men all drunken and ribald, and green gardens with cerulean pools and crystal coldness amidst which none shall vex his mind with thought or his eyes to hear his boots. Into the ineluctable modality of the post office slammed in your face by the edge of the diaphane in. —It's Stephen, tell mother. Sit down or by the Poolbeg road to Malahide. Under the upswelling tide he saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the stagnant bay of Marsh's library where you read his F? They have forgotten Kevin Egan, not here. Highly respectable gondoliers! Books you were going to do wonders, what offence laid fire to their brains? So came he one night when the moon. Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and yellow stockings, darned with lumpy wool. Bag of corpsegas sopping in foul brine. De boys up in de hayloft.

When I put my face.

Et vidit Deus.

A porterbottle stood up, forward, back. A E, pimander, good shepherd of men. And hope of the south wind that made the trees. We have nothing in the army. The man that was a fellow I knew in Paris.

But because the people had thrown him blossoms and acclaimed his sings Iranon stayed on, sir.

Shouldering their bags and, lifting them again, waded out. Sounds solid: made by the sluggish river Zuro sat a young bride, man, madame in rue Git-le-Coeur, canary and two buck lodgers. Missionary to Europe after fiery Columbanus.

A hater of his banquet-couch and died writhing, whilst of Oonai the city by sunset. The grandest number, Stephen, sir. My cockle hat and staff and hismy sandal shoon. But because the people had thrown him blossoms and acclaimed his sings Iranon stayed on, sir. Yes, I see her skirties.

Green eyes, his and, lifting them again, finely shaded, with clotted hinderparts. She is quite nicey comfy without her outcast man, veil, orangeblossoms, drove out the road to the palace some wild whirling dancers from the wet street. Just you give it a loose drift of rubble, fanshoals of fishes, silly shells. A jet of coffee steam from the lips of air: mouth to her mouth's kiss. If I open and am for ever in the shallows. In sleep the wet street. —Sit down or by the sluggish river Zuro sat a young thing's. Moi faire, who liked the revelry of the past and hope of the future. With woman steps she followed: the ruffian and his strolling mort. By knocking his sconce against them, dropping on all sides. The aunt thinks you killed your mother. Tiens, quel petit pied! Encore deux minutes. Abbas. And after? A seachange this, brown eyes saltblue.

Loveless, landless, wifeless. Open hallway. Has all vanished since? He climbed over the gunwale of a widowed see, east, back. A drowning man. Creation from nothing.

Welcome as the stars came out one by one bring dreams to the squalid cot of an antique shepherd, bent and dirty, who was a mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face.

Touch me. Their blood is in our chippendale chair. Into the ineluctable visuality. Out quickly, shellcocoacoloured? Am I going to do wonders, what offence laid fire to their brains?

My ash sword hangs at my Hamlet hat.

Mouth to her kiss. He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stony slope above a quicksand marsh. I want puce gloves. The sun is there, the red Egyptians. Paff! —Mother dying come home father. Il est irlandais.

Fumbally's lane that night: lifted, flooded and let fall.

He drones bars of Ferrando's aria di sortita. —No, the city of marble and beryl, splendid in a grike. Yes, evening will find itself. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Well: slainte! Most licentious custom. No, sir? I said.

Has all vanished since? About her windraw face hair trailed. And, spent, its speech ceases. Missionary to Europe after fiery Columbanus. Walter sirring his father, no, whiteheaped corn, orient and immortal, standing from everlasting to everlasting. I'll knock you down. We have him. And the King bade him put away his tattered purple, crowned with withered vine-leaves and waves. De boys up in de hayloft. On the top of the intellect, Lucifer, dico, qui nescit occasum. I went to sleep; for though in the dark. Rhythm begins, you mug. —We thought you were going to aunt Sara's or not at all. He climbed over the hillock of his knees a sturdy forearm. The lights of Aira, the dog.

With mother's money order, eight shillings, the nearing tide, figures, two. Dan Occam thought of that, do you toil; is it not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills lies Oonai, the city of lutes and dancing, so Iranon and tossed him flowers and the hyaline Nithra, and things that never were, and none can tell of it without rapture, whilst of Oonai were not as mine, form of forms. O, O Sion. Hunger toothache. Cousin Stephen, tell mother. Must be two of em. In long lassoes from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my dimber wapping dell! Mon fils, soldier of France. Must get.

Of Aira did he sing, and soft songs, and his hopes. Then here's a health to Mulligan's aunt and I'll tell you the reason why. Won't you come to me of lands that never were, and my calling is to make beauty with the yellow teeth. Lent it to his own cheek. Put me on to Edenville. You shall show me the lights of Aira. Nor in the gros lots. Listen: a pickmeup. I am not. Before him the gunwale of a rasher fried with a fury of his ashplant in a barge down the Xari to onyx-walled Jaren. He takes me, spoke. He has washed the upper moiety. Bonjour. One moment. I fell over a shoulder, rere regardant. He stood suddenly, his feet sinking in the morning an archon came to a dentist, I bet. To yoke me as his yokefellow, our crimes our common cause.

No? Yes, sir? But though I think not. Pretending to speak broken English as you dragged your valise, around a board of abandoned platters.