Happy Birthday James Joyce
*musical mood preference: David Bowie - Rebel Rebel**
Quotes from James Joyce, on this, his 123rd birthday
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
-Ulysses, page 34
He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe than meddle with Irrland's split little pea.
-Finnegans Wake
You were bred, fed, fostered and fattened from holy childhood up in this two easter island ... and now, forsooth, a nogger among the blankards of this dastard century, you have become of twosome twiminds forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, nay, condemned fool, anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited kingdom on the vacuum of your own most intensely doubtful soul.
-Finnegans Wake
Ulysses was banned in its unabridged form in the United states for 11 years after publication. The decision which overturned that censorship was delivered by Judge Wosley. Here is part of his rendering:
-James Joyce, 1919
I'd like a language which is above all languages, a language to which all will do service. I cannot express myself in English without enclosing myself in a tradition."
- James Joyce
-Ulysses
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
-James Joyce
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Posts from me about Joyce:
Joycean Wit - Quote and Commentary
Romanticism from Joyce - a short excerpt with commentary
Cultural Conflict in James Joyce's "The Dead"
Verbal Softcore Pornography from James Joyce
James Joyce's "The Dead" and Ibsen's A Doll's House - A Comparison
James Joyce's "The Dead" and Ibsen's A Doll's House - A Comparison (Part 2)
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
-Ulysses, page 34
He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe than meddle with Irrland's split little pea.
-Finnegans Wake
You were bred, fed, fostered and fattened from holy childhood up in this two easter island ... and now, forsooth, a nogger among the blankards of this dastard century, you have become of twosome twiminds forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, nay, condemned fool, anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited kingdom on the vacuum of your own most intensely doubtful soul.
-Finnegans Wake
Ulysses was banned in its unabridged form in the United states for 11 years after publication. The decision which overturned that censorship was delivered by Judge Wosley. Here is part of his rendering:
"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."
"Why all this fuss and bother about the mystery of the unconscious? What about the mystery of the conscious? What do they know about that?"-James Joyce, 1919
I'd like a language which is above all languages, a language to which all will do service. I cannot express myself in English without enclosing myself in a tradition."
- James Joyce
"To me, an Irish safety pin is more important than an English epic."
-James Joyce
-Ulysses
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
-James Joyce
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Posts from me about Joyce:
Joycean Wit - Quote and Commentary
Romanticism from Joyce - a short excerpt with commentary
Cultural Conflict in James Joyce's "The Dead"
Verbal Softcore Pornography from James Joyce
James Joyce's "The Dead" and Ibsen's A Doll's House - A Comparison
James Joyce's "The Dead" and Ibsen's A Doll's House - A Comparison (Part 2)
posted by Brian at 7:31 p.m.
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