The institute housed the finest recording equipment, and Ogden often asked writers to try it out. Ogden was the founder of the Orthological Institute at Cambridge. Ogden, an English linguist who later wrote a preface for part of Joyce’s “Work in Progress”-Finnegans Wake. In 1929, Beach helped introduce Joyce to C.K. Finnegans Wake: Anna Livia Plurabelle (1929) He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai's mountaintop nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, graven in the language of the outlaw.
But, ladies and gentlemen, had the youthful Moses listened to and accepted that view of life, had he bowed his head and bowed his will and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have led the chosen people out of their house of bondage nor followed the pillar of the cloud by day. Vagrants and daylabourers are you called: the world trembles at our name.Ī dumb belch of hunger cleft his speech. Israel is weak and few are her children: Egypt is an host and terrible are her arms. Yours serfdom, awe and humbleness: ours thunder and the seas. You pray to a local and obscure idol: our temples, majestic and mysterious, are the abodes of Isis and Osiris, of Horus and Ammon Ra. You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we have a literature, a priesthood, an agelong history and a polity.īy the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man supple in combat: stonehorned, stonebearded, heart of stone. You have no cities nor no wealth: our cities are hives of humanity and our galleys, trireme and quadrireme, laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe. Why will you jews not accept our language, our religion and our culture? You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen we are a mighty people. It was revealed to me that those things are good which yet are corrupted which neither if they were supremely good nor unless they were good could be corrupted. I heard his words and their meaning was revealed to me. And it seemed to me that I heard the voice of that Egyptian highpriest raised in a tone of like haughtiness and like pride. His listeners held their cigarettes poised to hear, their smoke ascending in frail stalks that flowered with his speech.Noble words coming.
It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of a highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses.
Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in listening to the remarks addressed to the youth of Ireland a moment since by my learned friend.
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