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Earwicker, that patternmind, that paradigmatic ear, receptoretentive as his of Dionysius, longsuffer - ing although whitening under restraint in the sititout corner of his conservatory, behind faminebuilt walls, his thermos flask and ripidian flabel by his side and a walrus whiskerbristle for a tusk-pick, compiled, while he mourned the flight of his wild guineese,
Finnegans Wake 2006
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