The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Amn't

As stately, plump Buck Mulligan explains to Haines,

I'm the queerest young fellow that ever you heard
My mother's a jew, my father's a bird.
With Joseph the joiner I cannot agree,
So here's to disciples and Calvary.

If anyone thinks that I amn't divine
He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine
But have to drink water and wish it were plain
That I make when the wine becomes water again.

Authority to reject the wretched locution, "Aren't I."

Reading James Joyce's Ulysses.

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