jaw-neeeeee

Updated: May 8, 2025

He amused himself for hours together by lying on his paillasse tilting his head back, rolling up his eyes, and crying in a high quavering voice "JAW-neeeeee." After a repetition or two of his own name in English, he would demand sharply "Who is calling me? Mexique?

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room