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Letter: Letters: Prose possessed

Published 23 March 1991

From ADRIAN BOWYER

Little Albert though noble and bright, maybe, is mazefuddled (2 March).
His portrait, perhaps, is scribblescrabbled by the artist as an old old.
Your mamaman is spending momomoney he hasnt got buying ququarks he cant
find on their ownsome while he himself reads Finnegan’s Wakea goodreed Ive
never heard of. Ah! A solecism from Cilicia in your attic.

James Joyce awrote one called Finnegans Wake. Sea or see? Possession
is an illusion this time. All we own is on loan. Shem and sham and a shame
on you.

Adrian Bowyer University of Bath

Issue no. 1761 published 23 March 1991

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