“I’d like a language which is above all languages, a language to which all will do service. I cannot express myself in English without enclosing myself in a tradition.”
— James Joyce
“I’d like a language which is above all languages, a language to which all will do service. I cannot express myself in English without enclosing myself in a tradition.”
— James Joyce
This sounds like a confession of the anxiety of influence to me (which I think he did feel in relation to Blake and definitely in relation to Shakespeare).