Morning light, Ponte Tresa

Zurich in Joyce

"O, by the by, lets wee brag of praties, it ought to be always remembered in connection with what has gone before that there was a northroomer, Herr Betreffender, out for his zimmer holedigs, digging in number 32 at the Ram and Puncheon (Branch of Dirty Dick’s were house) in Laxslip (where the Sockeye Sammons were stopping at the time orange fasting) prior to that, A Kommerzial (Gorbotipacco, he was wreaking like Zentral Oylrubber) from Osterich, the U.S.E paying (Gaul save the mark!) 11/- in the week (Gosh, these wholly romads!) of conscience money in the first deal of Yuly wheil he was, swishing beesnest with blesure, and swobbing brogan eerish myth brockendootsch, making his reportage on Der Fall Adams for the Frankofurto Siding, a Fastland payrodicule, and er, consstated that one had on him the Lynn O’Brien, a meltoned lammswolle, disturbed, and wider he might the same zurichschicken other he would, with tosend and obertosend tonnowaters, one monkey’s damages become".

James Joyce, Finnegan's wake (1939) Chapter 3

the tomb of Joyce in Zurich

The Dublin man came to Zurich in October 1904, only to depart for Trieste with the prospect of employment in the Austro-Hungarian city. He returned to live in the city in 1915 at the outset of the first world war, and in 1939 as the follow-up of the preceding took over, dying there in 1940, for you were almost right, amiable bottined-woolen Kharonnette, his tomb can be found in the Fluntern cemetery near the zoo.