A lovely tribute, and one of the clearest books on Joyce. Easy to read, and written by professional writers. Read this and you can dispense with the heavy academic explanations which explain nothing. Disposes of the Dujardin anecdote. There is wickedness in JJ that he led his admirers on. Beware of horn of a bull, hoof of a horse, smile of a Saxon.
182: "I am prepared to attempt to follow a discussion on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, because an intellectual background has been created for the doctrine; but I won't join a discussion on forms of government, nor on what relations human beings have with the animal creation" [JJ]An incontinence of speech.
206: On Joyce's near vocation: "Mind you, it was not a question of belief. It was a question of celibacy. I knew I could not live the life of a celibate"
207: That the Jesuits in NY refused a Mass for Joyce?
232: "The giddiness one experiences when the name given does not correspond to the thing seen" [Colum]
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