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Sunday, November 18, 2007

While They Went Doublin Their Mumper All The Time




riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristam, violer d'amores fr'over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war; nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselves to Laurens County's giorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time...

--James Joyce (from "Finnegans Wake ")

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