sidecross
03-17-2006, 11:42 AM
“Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is a joky for Jacob.…
Shem’s bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip, a trio of barbells from his megageg chin (sowman’s son), the wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of two buttocks,…”
From Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Edit: James Joyce did not follow suggestions about paragraphs as to when or if to use them.
[ March 17, 2006, 12:49 PM: Message edited by: sidecross ]
Shem’s bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip, a trio of barbells from his megageg chin (sowman’s son), the wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of two buttocks,…”
From Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Edit: James Joyce did not follow suggestions about paragraphs as to when or if to use them.
[ March 17, 2006, 12:49 PM: Message edited by: sidecross ]