moreover , alp is a bag lady not only because she carries a bag , but because her bag contains garbage : all spoiled goods go into her nabsack : curtrages and rattlin buttins , nappy spattees and flasks of all nations , clavicures and scampulars , maps , keys and woodpiles of haypennies and moonled brooches with bloodstaned breeks in em , boaston nightgarters and masses of shoesets and nickelly nacks and foder allmicheal and a lugly parson of cates and howitzer muchears and midgers and maggets , ills and ells with loffs of toffs and pleures of bells and the last sigh that come fro the hart ( fw 11.18-26 ) this habit of collecting odds and ends and putting them in a bag doubles , of course , for joyces own process of picking through the collected compost heap of culture , looking for certain things to put into words and into the container of finnegans wake .