June 16, 2005

James Joyce

June 16 is Bloomsbury Day. 

James Joyce:, I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

Sheila O Malley has gone all out and you don't want to miss it. 

My favorite:

Nora Joyce (Joyce's wife) - after Joyce's death - was asked about which new writers she read. Here is what she said:

"Sure, if you've been married to the greatest writer in the world, you don't remember all the little fellows."

Posted by Jill Fallon at June 16, 2005 11:46 AM | Permalink