From Judge Woolsey: “his locale was Celtic”

“In respect to the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.”

— Judge M. Woolsey in his decision on the “obscenity” in Ulysses, 1933

Here’s the NY Times article about the decision. I love Judge Woolsey.

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