FW 1.72b --living with death--

1.72a: Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension...
1.72b: Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey with his shoe hanging...
1.72c: but let your ghost have no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are...
1.72d: and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket, kerchief, ring and amberulla...
1.72e: And it isn't our spittle we'll stint you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, ...
1.72f: Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax...
1.72g: Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder...
1.72h: And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat on high is the mark of your manument...
1.72i: and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses you showed our labourlasses...
1.72k: He's duddandgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq but peace to his great limbs...
1.72l: No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king. That you could fell an elmstree...
1.72m: If you was hogglebully itself and most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was your like...
1.72n: But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him...
1.72o: So may the priest of seven worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you...
1.72p: Your heart is in the system of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copricapron...
1.72q: The loamsome roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not unrested!...
1.72r: For we have performed upon thee, thou abramanation, who comest ever without being invoked...


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Meeting some sick old bankrupt

Buddha met an old man, a sick man, and a corpse outside his palace and thus learned of age, sickness, and death


or the Cottericks' donkey with his shoe hanging, clankatachankata,

Irish Cothraighe: old name for Saint Patrick; etymologised as 'belonging to four'

tachanka = horse-drawn WW1 machine gun (Russian) ♬ [Russian lyrics]
clank-a-tachanka-ta

doubtful:
Herold: La Vie du Bouddha 58: (Buddha's horse) 'Kanthaka é le meilleur des chevaux' (French 'Kanthaka was the best of horses')

or a slut snoring with an impure infant on a bench.

slang impure: whore

cf Hogarth

'Twould turn you against life, so 'twould.

phrase associated with Nietzsche?


And the weather's that mean too!

(searches for 'mean weather' give 'average' not 'unkind')


To part from Devlin is hard, as Nugent knew,

Dublin
(life)

Gerald Nugent (16thC Gaelic poet): Ode Written on Leaving Ireland: 'From thee, sweet Delvin, must I part'


to leave the clean tanglesome one lushier than its neighbour enfranchisable fields.

parting is hard because the vegetation is entangling

each-one-lusher-than-the-last?

enfranchise = to give the vote, or to free from slavery
French en franchise: duty free
French infranchissable: impassable




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