Cover art for VI.A Chamber Music by James Joyce

VI.A Chamber Music

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VI.A Chamber Music Lyrics

TS Eliot ends idea of poetry for ladies.

∧ pargoleth,
Hosty's ballad wrapt round a barrel,
mi fa venir la peine d'oca,
⟂ trees too beautiful for her to listen,
put back watch [579.5?],
if you fall don't wait to get up,
School for Stendhal,
┣ afraid to phone & find a W in his room,
⟂ takes off shoes at the dinner,
T's whisper heard in Pekin,
what saying? [232.19]
stitching them up,
mon petit,
she can move,
[ listens to hear his own mistakes [276.01-02],
Skeezy Lally good & tired,
Kathleen [93.31??], mind a jackdaw's nest [276.6],
┫ tears up letters others work or woo for T [276.06-07],
write T&I in Eden [cf 066.17-.18?],
S.P. in 19--
shouting with the heat
∧ eat all barring carrots,
∧ my lagging lover,
soupstone,
callouses,
ever think of me as a mother or father?
blackheaded Christ [144.6],
[word illegible] diamond sculls,
backslapper gladhander [276.2-3],
song in a train [135.34-35?],
heat baptismal water,
a little shawl,
T teaches her to talk,
Leo W,
picture,
hair in queer mood,
$E & △ discuss the past [275.19-20],
left foot hindmost,
was she thin or was she fat as a hen in the forehead [275.13],
give to drink to shirt [247.28],
face full of flesh [275.12-13] change her tunic [247.29],
afraid she'd drop her sweat in the batter,
$E crawls with lice [135.36],
to cat an anchor,
merciful hour,
[ admires secretly
girl is pained by other's slighting [247.32-33],
dismay [483.14],
duck [224.7],
minks,
shellroad,
wellheld,
tufthunter,
shaved by corpse barber,
the cock shrilled [594.29-30?],
give a wide berth,
popliners,
anfractuosities,
dayfall,
bismillah [521.15],
zealously [232.22] young,
curiously shy,
uprun,
wraparound skirt,
it is foretold of him how [247.1-2],
Jehovah loves fried steak.
[ pain in lost limb (innocence) [247.25-27],
hungerbrood,
ilkaboy,
milkamaid,
red headed Italian dagodevil,
do you mind with whom you did sleep,
lean on your lentils [579.21],
timekiller [247.2],
foot-gaugers,
no waste,
John key pure
Sonogog [136.1],
plunderbox,
his hangout,
flobert,
started scratch,
blubber nordseafisk,
wire in hat to stand up,
dragon fly [244.27],
spiders walk along reeds [244.27-28],
luciphare [239.34],
throw stones after zug,
┣ you didn't think I saw,
crinoline trees,
see stars from bed [244.24?],
bullpen,
virgin thrown open to public,
slumber suit,
you're through, I'm true [247.12-13],
mother of instinct,
one word borrows another [275.5-6],
hell ollaya,
catsmeat column,
towel on his head [584.15?],
Airyanna & Bluebart [106.31, 275.14],
pottage Esau,
sea of murmuring [247.18, 254.18]
depths,
sea of ark,
by me, I suppose?
lady complex,
tie on his toupee,
cigar clerk,
a most dismal drunk,
theophilus,
perish,
big bug ark sea fog, fog sick man, man say God, God! see fog.

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