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James Joyce

Bosh! A man of genius makes no mistakes.

About Me

---- I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.---- I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.---- One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Who I'd invite to my Wake for a drink, as long as they don't talk about work (mine or theirs), and though they'll probably be busy for centuries (meeting of course at McCarthy O'Shea Duffy Fogarty Norris Gillespie's pub): HCE, Brandy or Kirshnerwaser, Brivic here! Staley and Outta Benstock. THen, Myra and a tonic, my Brock man. KerI Ames to please. And you, Finn? Vin; Le blanc. Ah, fancy a game of Chester, Anderson. Yes, Bowen. Bishop to Earle six. Spurr me on. Beja vu: Seb Knowles what, now? The Senn is on the Fritz, on a Wim. Thwaites a minute. Say the magic and fix the Rabate ears. IraN Adel Glasheen Owa Tagoo Siam. Well, pat Reilly on his Boyle (S.J.). (Oh, don't be Lewty): Mike Groden's john gordon! Wawrzycka! Gottfried you! thanks.

Music:

John Sullivan -- a wonderful tenor; Mr. Bartell D'Arcy; All those renditions of Chamber Music: Samuel Barbar, John Cage, Alfred Heller, etc; quite a lot of light opera, such as The Mikado; of course "Croppy Boy," "Love's Old Sweet Song."

Television:

Tune in, tune on, old Tighe, high, high, high, 23 I'm thine owelglass.

Books:

Oh, so much to mention. Mutt and Jeff, Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Aquinas, In the Track of the Sun, Tit-Bits, Dujardin's We'll to the Woods No More, Vico, The Little Review, Italo Svevo (all), Ibsen, Edward Lear, Padraic Colum, Eliot, Pound, Rabelais, Paul de Kock, Heinrich Zimmer's Maya der Indische Mythos. ............... oh, well, and of course: Thom's Dublin Post Office Directory, 1886; Shakespeare's Works; The Beauties of Killarney; When We Were Boys by William O'Brien M. P.; Thoughts from Spinoza; The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle; Voyages in China by "Viator"; Philosophy of the Talmud; Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag; Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland by William Allingham; Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugene Sandow

Heroes:

Irish heroes and heroines of antiquity: Cuchulin, Conn of hundred battles, Niall of nine hostages, Brian of Kincora, the ardri Malachi, Art MacMurragh, Shane O'Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe, Patrick Sarsfield, Red Hugh O'Donnell, Red Jim MacDermott, Soggarth Eoghan O'Growney, Michael Dwyer, Francy Higgins, Henry Joy M'Cracken, Goliath, Horace Wheatley, Thomas Conneff, Peg Woffington, the Village Blacksmith, Captain Moonlight, Captain Boycott, Dante Alighieri, Christopher Columbus, S. Fursa, S. Brendan, Marshal MacMahon, Charlemagne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Mother of the Maccabees, the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, the Bold Soldier Boy, Arrah na Pogue, Dick Turpin, Ludwig Beethoven, the Colleen Bawn, Waddler Healy, Angus the Culdee, Dolly Mount, Sidney Parade, Ben Howth, Valentine Greatrakes, Adam and Eve, Arthur Wellesley, Boss Croker, Herodotus, Jack the Giantkiller, Gautama Buddha, Lady Godiva, The Lily of Killarney, Balor of the Evil Eye, the Queen of Sheba, Acky Nagle, Joe Nagle, Alessandro Volta, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare