Gayet that when he stop look time he stop long ground who here hurry he would have ever the lothst word
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- Gaiety Theatre: Theatre near St Stephen's Green, Dublin, opened in 1871
- loth: reluctant, unwilling
- sloth: laziness
- lost word
- last word
Commentary
This passage is missing most of the connective phrases (conjunctions, prepositions) and verb tenses that elucidate meaning, leaving the reader to fill in the gaps. John P. Anderson, in Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of the Kabbalah, Volume 5 (p.304) suggests:
- "gay yet such that when he stopped to look at the time, he stopped on the long ground where everyone hurries...to have always the last/lost word"
