GRGR1: Discussion opener for section 1

Alvaro A.A. Fernandes mas01aaf at ma103.gold.ac.uk
Fri Sep 20 07:26:45 CDT 1996


>>>>> "David" == David Evers <dme at nemesys.co.uk> writes:

    David> Do the words `your sound will be the sizzling night' occur
    David> in FW?

Thanks to grep and the etext of FW it can be ascertained that not only
they do not, but (JJ surprising us yeats again) the word 'sizzling' so
lavishly lo-lee-ta'ed in Calypso ("Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the
inner organs of beasts and fowls. ...") ** does not ** appear in FW.

Sort of sad, fizzling-out proof that not all 

	`winefizzling, ginsizzling, booseguzzling existences'

have been written down in the Wake.

Alvaro



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