Finnegans Wake Grappa discussion

Show coffins, winding sheets, goodbuy bierchepes, cinerary urns, liealoud blasses, snuffchests, poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers, breakmiddles, zootzaks for eatlust, including upyourhealthing rookworst and meathewersoftened forkenpootsies and for that matter, javel also, any kind of inhumationary bric au brac for the adornment of his glasstone honophreum, would, met these trein of konditiens, naturally follow, halas, in the ordinary course, enabling that roundtheworlder wandelingswight, did suches pass him, to live all safeathomely the presenile days of his life of opulence, ancient ere decrepitude, late lents last lenience, till stuffering stage, whaling away the whole of the while (hypnos chilia eonion!) lethelulled between explosion and re explosion (Donnaurwatteur! Hunderthunder!) from grosskopp to megapod, embalmed, of grand age, rich in death anticipated.

Is that not simply beautiful? And in terms of its connections to the wider text we have HCE himself, alast along with thunder, death and many other bed-fellows of our dreamer, sleeping for a thousand ages and passing into myth.

Jonathan wrote: " Show coffins, winding sheets, goodbuy bierchepes, cinerary urns, liealoud blasses, snuffchests, poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers, breakmiddles, zootzaks for eatlust, incl..."

Fantastic extraction, Jonathan. This is a prime example of veryrich Wake language... it damn well made my morning...

Breathtaking

I love how he snuck in the eau de Javel. Kills all smells in seconds..

In a similar vein?

"Here, Hengegst and Horsesauce, take your heads(3) out of the taletub! And leave your hinnyhennyhindyou! It's haunted."

"(3) That's the lethemuse but it washes off."

Finnegans Wake pg.272