FW 1.4d --from the depths to the heights--

1.4a: What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek...
1.4b: Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes...
1.4c: What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves...
1.4d: O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but...
1.4e: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you...


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FDV: "But O here how has sprawled upon the dust the father of fornications but O, my stars & body, how has finespanned in high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement. Was Isot! Ere we sure?" →
"And O here how has sprawled upon the dust the father of fornicationists but O, my shining stars & body, how has finespanned in high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement. Wasis? Isot! Ere were sure?"


O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists

hear, hear
how hath
Howth
sprawled
prowled
Dutch met: with
dusk
dust


but (O my shining stars and body!)

phrase my stars!
seeing stars
heavenly bodies

FW1 had a comma after "but" (commas before parentheses was a consistent stylistic oddity that FW2 consistently rejects)


how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement!

finespun
fane: flag, pennant, weathercock

OTIsa 48:13: 'my right hand hath spanned the heavens'

rainbow
sky-sign: an advertisement on the roof a building, so constructed that its letters stand out against the sky; an advertisement in sky-writing

But waz iz? Is eut?

_E,var_: {FnF, Png, JCM: ...waz...} | {Vkg: ...was...}

first words sung by Tristan in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Act I scene 2): 'Was ist? Isolde?' (German 'What's wrong? Isolde?') ♬

woz: in Egyptian mythology, the cursed fish as a symbol of Osiris's incestuous sin with Isis

Arabic: 'azîz = dear, beloved

FnF, Vkg, JCM: "Iseut?"
Png: "...iz! Iseut! Ere were sewers!"


Ere were sewers?

is it? are you sure?

(ere + w = were; were + s = sewer)

sewers: waste conduits; tailors
were there ever sewers?

French soeurs: sisters



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