Thursday, February 4, 2010

Liss liss o liss


"Ahem! There's Ada, Bett, Celia, Delia, Ena, Fretta, Gilda, Hilda, Ita, Jess, Katty, Lou, (they make me cough as sure as I read them) Mina, Nippa, Opsy, Poll, Queeniee, Ruth, Saucy, Trix, Una, Vela, Wanda, Xenia, Yva, Zulma, Phoebe, Thelma. And Mee!" (147).

Why does he end the alphabet with xyz . . . pt and mee. that makes 29 rather than 26 letters.
And before he lisss off his alphabet of names, Joyce writes, "And my waiting twenty classbirds, sitting on their stiles! Let me finger their eurhythmytic. And you'll see if I'm selfthought. They're all of them out to please. Wait! In the name of. And all the holly. And some the mistle and it Saint Yves. Hoost!"

But there's not 20 classbirds, there are 28. I think I'm missing the point.

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