FW 1.67a --the book's challenge--

1.67a: Cry not yet! There's many a smile to Nondum, with sytty maids per man, sir, and the park's so dark...
1.67b: One's upon a thyme and two's behind their lettice leap and three's among the strubbely beds...
1.67c: That one of a wife with folty barnets. For then was the age when hoops ran high. Of a noarch...
1.67d: Malmarriedad he was reversogassed by the frisque of her frasques and her prytty pyrrhique...
1.67e: Flou inn, flow ann. Hohore! So it's sure it was her not we! But lay it easy, gentle mien, we are in rearing...


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synopsis: the book in your hands — its tales and dances


FDV: "The movables are in motion march, all of them again in pitpat & zingzang to every little earywig tells a little bit of a torytale." →
"The movibles are scrawling in motion marching, all of them ago in pitpat & zingzang for every busy eeriewhig's a bit of a torytale to tell."



Cry not yet! There's many a smile to Nondum,

STPM xxxi: (a voice of God speaking to Mohammad) '"Cry! in the name of thy Lord..." — Koran, ch. xcvi'

VI.B25.158: 'Fly not yet' IM: song Fly Not Yet [Fly not yet] ♬ music

nursery rhyme 'How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten, sir. Will we be there by candlelight?' (Ulysses 9.415)
[...many miles to... Three score... by candlelight?]

Latin nondum: not yet
London


with sytty maids per man, sir,

Norwegian sytti: seventy

according to Islamic tradition, Muslim men are promised seventy-two virgins in Paradise


and the park's so dark by kindlelight.

"Cry not... many a smile... sytty maids" all sounds very positive, so what's with this dark park suddenly?

German dialect: Kindl: child (diminutive)


But look what you have in your handself!

(Finnegans Wake itself)

hand
handsel: a gift for good luck upon entering a new situation; the first specimen of anything

self, yourself


The movibles are scrawling in motions,

slang movables: small objects of value
movable type (in printing)

crawling

in motion
emotions


marching, all of them ago,

obsolete ago: to go forth
again
on the go


in pitpat and zingzang,

pitter-patter

zig-zag
singsong
zing


for every busy eerie whig's a bit of a torytale to tell.

Dutch eer: honour
earwig

Whig, Tory

story, tale

FDV: "all of them [movables] again in pitpat & zingzang to every little earywig tells a little bit of a torytale"
so, just: 'the print/type tells stories' ...again?? what's been added?



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