Gene's new novel ... opening section finished

Gene's new novel   ... opening section finished

 

 

Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths ... she'll get a free ride in the ambulance. Ha! Ha! Ha! The just man falls seven times. I heard a roar between two hills. L to the water Jimmy Harte. Edward's Day Out. I wish that day would come back again. What happened to your lorry Jim? I think they did. Dr Whitehead. Piss, piss Iceland dog! Tickets are sixpence each and I hope you all win. Hi for a toffer and hi for it still; and hi for the wee lad lies over the hill. Hollyhocks! Hollyhocks! Over Bobby Lyttle's garden wall. The river eddy whirls. Rushe came down last night. I know my nick name. Apostrophe at the Post Office today. Let the reindeers go. Let them go! Good morrow Mick. No-one will read your papers. The image of a girl. Deeper than the wishing well. Carolina moon. What a beautiful day! What must heaven be like? Do you know our d'Brian? You're nice Miss Rice. I see said the blind man. The fish in the pond are seeing red as Bobby is fishing with Coates strong thread. And those who come from distance far are always late for tea. Oh! to be in Dunaree. All day all night Marianne; down by the seaside sifting sand. Look at the way he's twisting that stick. He won't know himself in this lovely place. There was a wild colonial boy Jack Saltey was his name. Geoff Duke. I win a pound.

 

Will this one day rival the opening of Finnegans Wake and Lucky's monologue in Waiting for Godot?

 

FINNEGANS WAKE

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend	1
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to	2
Howth Castle and Environs.	3
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-	4
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy	5
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor	6
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse	7
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper	8
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to	9
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a	10
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in	11
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a	12
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory	13
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.	14
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-	15
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-	16
nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later	17
on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the	18
offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan,	19
erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends	20
an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:	21
and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park	22
where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev-	23
lins first loved livvy.	24

 

LUCKY'S SPEECH IN WAITING FOR GODOT

 

Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labors left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Cunard it is established beyond all other doubt than that which clings to the labors of men that as a result of the labors unfinished of Testew and Cunard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established beyond all doubt that in view of the labors of Fartov and Belcher left unfinished for reasons unknown of Testew and Cunard left unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy of Testew and Cunard that man in Essy that man in short that man in brief in spite of the strides of alimentation and defecation wastes and pines wastes and pines and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds kockey of all sorts penicilline and succedanea in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown but time will tell fades away I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead loss per head since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch four ounce per head approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara in a word for reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more much more grave that in the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is more much more grave that in the light the light the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas by the rivers running water running fire the air is the same and then the earth namely the air and then the earth in the great cold the great dark the air and the earth abode of stones in the great cold alas alas in the year of their Lord six hundred and something the air the earth the sea the earth abode of stones in the great deeps the great cold on sea on land and in the air I resume for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis the facts are there but time will tell I resume alas alas on on in short in fine on on abode of stones who can doubt it I resume but no to fast I resume the skull fading fading fading and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labors abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished . . .