Ray Gandolf:
My favorite Joyce story was told to me by Gilbert Seldes many years ago. Many years before that, as a young, callow, and nervous reporter, he had managed to secure an interview with Joyce in Paris. All he could recall of the meeting, said Seldes, was that Joyce’s favorite Irish whiskey was Jameson’s. Because, said Joyce, according to Seldes, its distillery was downstream from a sewage outlet on the River Liffey — and thus contained the true essence of Dublin. Several grains of salt are recommended.
