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Upholding the lid he (who?) gazed in the coffin (coffin?) at the oblique triple (piano!) wires. He pressed (the same who pressed indulgently her hand), soft pedalling a triple of keys to see thethickness of felt advancing, to hear the muffled hammerfall of action.
Two sheets cream vellum paper on reserve two envelopes when I was in Wisdom Hely's wise Bloom inDaly's Henry Flower bought. Are you not happy in your home? Flower to console me and a pin cutslo. Means something, language of flow. Was it a daisy? Innocence that is. Respectable girlmeets after mass. Tanks awfully muchly. Wise Bloom eyed on the door a poster, a swaying mermaidsmoking mid nice waves. Smoke mermaids, coolest whiff of all. Hair streaming: love-lorn. Forsome man. For Raoul. He eyed and saw afar on Essex bridge a gay hat riding on a jauntingcar. Itis. Third time. Coincidence.
--from Ulysses
Irish novelist, was born in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, on February 2, 1882 in the seething political era when Parnell was the hope of Ireland. At six, Joyce was sent to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, the best Jesuit school in Ireland, where he spent three years. After two years at home, he attended Belvedere College in Dublin, excelling in essay writing and poetry. From 1898-1902, he attended University College where he studied Aristotle and Aquinas, Latin, Italian, French, and Norwegian in order to read Ibsen in the original. In 1901, he published a two-penny pamphlet "The Day of the Rabblement," which denounced the National Theatre for Ireland as a surrender to the mob by artists who should know no national boundaries. After taking his bachelor's degree in October, 1902, Joyce moved to Paris, but was summoned home to his dying mother in April, 1903. In 1904, he taught at Clifton School, Dalkey. On June 10, 1904, Joyce met Nora Joseph Barnacle and by October they were married (they remarried in London in 1931 "for testamentary reasons"). They moved to Trieste where Joyce got a job in the Berlitz School.
"Chamber Music" was rejected by four publishers before it was published by Elkin Mathews in 1907. "Dubliners" was completed the following year, but was not published until 1914. Joyce came to Dublin in 1912, thinking to publish the book himself, but the printer refused to sell the sheets, destroyed them and broke up the type. Joyce left Ireland never to return.
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was written from 1904Ü1914. In 1914, Ezra Pound, leader of a revolutionary movement of vanguard writers who wished to "blast" out the stuffy Edwardian epoch, began serial publications of "Portrait" in the English magazine Egoist. Ben W. Huebsch published the book in the U.S. in 1916. Joyce began "Ulysses" in 1914 just after completing his play "Exiles," which was published in 1918; "Ulysses" was completed in 1921.
From 1918Ü1920, "Ulysses" was serialized in the U.S. magazine, Little Review; the U.S. Post Office confiscated three of the issues for alleged obscenity. Huebsch refused to publish the book, which was published in Paris under the imprint of Shakespeare & Co. It was not until 1933 that Americans were legally permitted to read the book; the Random House edition of 1934 was the first legally printed in any EnglishÜspeaking country.
The writing of "Finnegans Wake" published in 1939 occupied Joyce for 17 years. Joyce spent his latter years in Paris, but fled to Zurich during World War II. James Joyce died on January 13, 1941.
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