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Tag Archives: writers
“directed spiritual activity”
Paul Leon: The most general and lasting impression I shall always retain of Joyce the man is his exquisite gentleness, together with his infinite power of comprehension. By this I do not mean a quality of heart … I am … Continue reading
“nearly normal”
Stanislaus Joyce: Jim says that he writes well because when he writes his mind is as nearly normal as possible.
“I prepare myself for a sacrament”
Philippe Soupault: Together we went often to the theatre, which, like all good Irishmen, he loved. It was the theatre as theatre that he loved. I mean that he was attracted less by the play than by the atmosphere, the … Continue reading
“his memory”
Oliver St. John Gogarty: His memory was stupendous, but he would go out and withdraw from company, and surely that must have been for note-taking.
“His distraction”
Philippe Soupault: His distraction is comparable only to that legendary kind of certain scholars. People who met him in passing, without observing him and without his noticing them, spoke only of his distraction, sometimes calling it egotism. But he was … Continue reading
“Joyce made no distinction between …”
Paul Leon: The student of the human soul should read attentively Joyce’s writings in which it is mirrored, for Joyce made no distinction between actual life and literary creation. His work is one long self-confession, and in this respect he … Continue reading
“the formal calm of the Jesuit”
Wyndham Lewis: But on the purely personal side, Joyce possesses a good deal of the intolerant arrogance of the dominie, veiled with an elaborate decency beneath the formal calm of the Jesuit, left over as a handy property from his … Continue reading
“Don’t throw Ulysses out the window as you threaten.”
Nola Tully: Joyce felt that his true contemporary audience was the other writers and artists of his day and remained steadfast in his campaign to have his work read. He wrote letters, collected the reviews, and monitored every detail of … Continue reading
“For decades the censors have fought to emasculate literature”
Morris L. Ernst, counsel for Random House – who successfully defended “Ulysses” against obscenity charges in 1933-34 – wrote in his foreward to the 1934 edition: It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of Judge Woolsey’s decision. For decades … Continue reading