Here’s another frivolous post, even sillier than my last one. More serious content is coming shortly.

As I’ve discussed, the end of Chapter I.8 is magical: “Tellmetale of stem or stone, beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!”

Chapter I.3 has a brief anticipation of this ending that made me smile when I came across it.

In this section of I.3, an alternate version of the Fall appears, in which HCE was apparently banging a bottle of booze against a door, and the home owner rushed outside to see a “liffopotamus” making a mess, “ploring all over the plains” (here, I’m reminded of how ALP is “laffing through all plores for us” — “plores” suggests applause, but it is also pleurs, “tears” in French). 

[This is an alternate version of the Cad accosting HCE in the Park. Here, HCE is slipping into the Cad role, assaulting a version of himself in a house, as the Cad assaults a form of HCE in his tomb and/or in Stonegenge at the end of I.3]

The mess is so great that it dirties all the clothes, and the women were “wasching the walters of, the weltering walters off. Whyte.”