Day 23.

Page 27.

The page opens with this line:

"You were the doublejoynted janitor the morning they were delivered and you'll be a grandfer yet entirely when the ritehand seizes what the lovearm knows."

I think someone is shouting at Faherty that he came from nothing and since he's always jerking off, he'll never be a grandfather. My guess. Just slander. No evidence.

Someone in the crowd doesn't like him.

Ah. The book has named him. The guy who was kissing Faherty's ass was named Kevin. 

There's an implication of the milkman paying someone a visit. Is this new speaker claiming that someone is fucking his wife when he's gone? Is her name Herry Jane?

What is Felix day? Phoenix? Birthday suit? Everyone reborn on their birthday kind of reference?

Joyce brings up something called redminers riots? It might be a real event, but it looks like Reminder riots. Birthday. Phoenix. Reminder. More cycle wordplay? Ya nonce.

The rest of the paragraph implys that Herry Jane gets around. Whoever it is that's talking stopped mentioning Faherty. And he's now attacking the moral character of Kevin and his girl.

There's also an ogre reference in there about Faherty.

A number of characters are called out in the next paragraph. I think the speaker wants them to lift a drink (mead) with him, or to go to fetch him a drink. The characters are Ezekiel Irons (a tough guy, and a Jew), Dimitrius O'Flagonan (a play on flagon, which is a stein for drinking), Pat Koy, and Pam Yates. I think he's toasting to the Catholics, but it's unclear. He mentions limbo (as lumbos), and makes a Jewish reference again. I can never tell if these are antisemetic.

There's a final mention of queer Behan, old Kate, and a butler. One of them does card tricks, I think, but he's saying she won't at the wake. The page ends with one more Mark Twain reference. I count three in less than 30 pages.

Essentially, page 26 inflates Faherty's ego and this page tears him down, while implying he might be fucking Kevin's wife, along with everyone in town. But that could be good ol' Irish pub ribbing and not real evidence. The crowd get involve, lashing back at Kevin. And then a bunch of Joyce's puns get thrown in.