". . . whenever he put his thumb into his mouth and sang through teinm laida [a divinatory incantation], then whatever he had been ignorant of would be revealed to him."


From Ancient Irish Tales, ed. Tom Peete Cross and Clark Harris Slover (New York, 1936), p. 365, quoted in Vivian Mercier, "James Joyce and the Macaronic Tradition," p. 34 (Twelve and a Tilly, eds. Jack P. Dalton and Clive Hart [Faber and Faber, 1946] 26-35).