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Joyce, James / A first-draft version of Finnegans wake
(1963)

II, iv ("Mamalujo"),   pp. 213-219


Page 213

  213 
II, iv 
(MAMALUJO) 
—3 
 "So And there they were too listening in as hard as they could I to FW 383
the solans [& the sycamores and the mistlethrushes] and all the birds
all 
four of them listening they were the big four the four master waves of Erin
all listening four there was old Tom Matt Gregory and then besides old Tom
Matt there was old Phelius Marcus O'Hogan65 Lyons the four waves and oftentimes
they used to be saying grace together right [enough] here now we are the
four of us old Tom Matt Gregory and old Phelius Marcus Lyons and old Jeremy
Luke Tarpey the four of us and sure thank God there are no more of us and
sure now you won't go & leave out old J.eL... 
10 O'Gorman Johnny MacDougall the four of us and no more of us and so now
pass the fish for the LorcEs Christ' sake amen the way they used to be saying
grace before fish for auld lang syne there they were spraining their ears
listening and listening to all the kissening with their eyes glistening all
the four when he was kiddling & cuddling his colleen not the collen no
the colleen bawn cuddling her and kissing her with his pogue like arrah na
pogue Pogue the dear annual they all four memembored [how] they used 
to be I cuddling and kissing under the mistlethrush and listening in the
FW 384 good old bygone days Dion Boucicault of in Arrah na Pogue when they
knew the'6 man on the doom in one of those centuries when they were all 
20 four collegians in the queen's colleges it brought it all back again as
fresh as ever Matt and Marcus and now there he was and his Arrah na Pogue
before the four of them and now thank God there were no more of them and
he poguing and poguing they were listening with their watering'7 
mouths watering so pass the pogue for Christ sake Amen listening & I
FW 385 watering all the four Luke and Johnny MacDougall for anything at all
of the bygone times for a cup of'8 § kindness yet for four big tumblers
MS 47481, 2 of woman squash with them all four listening and spraining their
ears and 
all their mouths making water 
 ' 5 The following is apparently the earliest version of the "Mamalujo" sequence
which Joyce combined with the "Tristan and Isolde" piece in 1938. 
 16 Omitted: "the." 
17 Not completed: "wat." - 
 18 The word "of" was repeated by error. 


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