Haas, Robert

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PUNS (Haas Chances Emulation)   or   JAMES  JOYCE  BETWEEN  NOVELS  Robert Haas   And now what next?  A pun?  But upun what?  (Dedaloss what to do.)  Pun or puncil punsively in hand, pundering deeply.  Such an opun ended problem.  Pun to king four?  (Then pun to queen four a Vico comeback.)  Be Puntifex Maxiumus crossing the Liffeycon, all so silly over the puns asinorum?    My previous work paunned by the fool punoply of irrespunsible, puntificating, punpous pundits.  Now seized by punctilious punks, contrabanned, impunded.  Punography and low pundering, in their opunion.  Crime and Punnishment.  Impunding expunsive disaster, grosse Panne, my Swiss publisher losing his Scherz.    But be not despundent!  Wage Punnic war on convention: spuntaneous, indepundent, filled with spunk!  Punnel punderneath them, punder and lightning above, puns spun out pungent, punending, and without compunction--a black punther aprowl!  Life as a pun-runner:  a Punte Carlo gamble (Hony soit qui mal y punse!); an adventure (epi oinopa punton), living by my Witz.  Sound the biting trumpet (Signum tuba datum est: Tubae, or gnawed tubae?)!  Cut them down! (Come pare thee to a Somme été?)  Fight them, paunic them, never repunt, never expunge.  “Punned!” shouts the coach.  A Pung Fu attack!  Run them through like a puncushion!  Spundle and mutilate!  The dreaded Indian kickboxer’s Punjab--slightest touch and they Dublin over retching.   Yet in end perhaps can go beypund this: wry-punning, deep-punning, reaching for impunderables.  From pungently to pun-gently (Dublin tendre).  Punpipes under rustling aspuns, wearing Punday best and a new Punama hat (puñana, Señor!), distant campunella bells, Pundarewski with a Chopun nocturne, Lily Puns fluttering by a Cio-Cio-pun aria, Casals playing softly his punticello.  Homespun calm-punny: puncakes and buttered puns at punrise, pungranates, punanas, and punpkin pie.  Punch and Judy in puntaloons, punting and sighing: puntomine, puntothine, my little pundle of joy!    But it’s hard: not certain how or if--just work and keep hopun it’ll happun.  Must come back again and finnish another time.  

PUNS (Haas Chances Emulation)

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PUNS (Haas Chances Emulation)

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