layen loves in meeingseeing, he got the charm of his optical | 1 |
life when he found himself (hic sunt lennones!) at pointblank | 2 |
range blinking down the barrel of an irregular revolver of | 3 |
the bulldog with a purpose pattern, handled by an unknown | 4 |
quarreler who, supposedly, had been told off to shade and | 5 |
shoot shy Shem should the shit show his shiny shnout out | 6 |
awhile to look facts in their face before being hosed and creased | 7 |
(uprip and jack him !) by six or a dozen of the gayboys. | 8 |
    What, para Saom Plaom, in the names of Deucalion and | 9 |
Pyrrha, and the incensed privy and the licensed pantry gods | 10 |
and Stator and Victor and Kutt and Runn and the whole mesa | 11 |
redonda of Lorencao Otulass in convocacaon, was this dis- | 12 |
interestingly low human type, this Calumnious Column of | 13 |
Cloaxity, this Bengalese Beacon of Biloxity, this Annamite Aper | 14 |
of Atroxity, really at, it will be precise to quarify, for he seems | 15 |
in a badbad case? | 16 |
    The answer, to do all the diddies in one dedal, would sound: | 17 |
from pulling himself on his most flavoured canal the huge chest- | 18 |
house of his elders (the Popapreta, and some navico, navvies!) | 19 |
he had flickered up and flinnered down into a drug and drunkery | 20 |
addict, growing megalomane of a loose past. This explains the | 21 |
litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite, | 22 |
neoclassical,which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after | 23 |
his name. It would have diverted,if ever seen,the shuddersome | 24 |
spectacle of this semidemented zany amid the inspissated grime | 25 |
of his glaucous den making believe to read his usylessly unread- | 26 |
able Blue Book of Eccles, édition de ténèbres, (even yet sighs the | 27 |
Most Different, Dr. Poindejenk, authorised bowdler and censor, | 28 |
it can't be repeated!) turning over three sheets at a wind, telling | 29 |
himself delightedly, no espellor mor so, that every splurge on the | 30 |
vellum he blundered over was an aisling vision more gorgeous | 31 |
than the one before t.i.t.s., a roseschelle cottage by the sea for | 32 |
nothing for ever, a ladies tryon hosiery raffle at liberty, a sewer- | 33 |
ful of guineagold wine with brancomongepadenopie and sick- | 34 |
cylinder oysters worth a billion a bite, an entire operahouse | 35 |
(there was to be stamping room only in the prompter's box and | 36 |