@PhilosophyExp And Joyce answered that he'd known what all the words were going to be, he had just been trying to decide the order.
I think there's a Joyce story involving Ezra Pound that turns on Joyce spending all day reordeirng words of a sentence he wrote day before.
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@distantcities Yup, that's the story. Was it Pound? I think I read the story in Ellmann's biography? Possibly. -
@PhilosophyExp It was Frank Budgen. -
@distantcities Thanks! I'll send out a correction tweet. Appreciated. -
@PhilosophyExp Oh, don't bother. I just knew not remembering would annoy me until I looked it up. -
@distantcities Okay! I've been relating my Ezra Pound version of that story for about 20 years! I'll get it right in future. :) -
@PhilosophyExp Here's a footnote from Wachtel's book:pic.twitter.com/EadyoPuR7x
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@PhilosophyExp You see? That's why you're an academic. You think of James Joyce and Ezra Pound. I think of Eric Morecambe. -
@johnthejack Well, I've taken to doing Eric Morecambe impressions with my new reading glasses! :) -
@PhilosophyExp Hehe. May help your concentration. Those words have to be out there somewhere.
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@PhilosophyExp Joyce was asked what he'd written that day & answered one sentence. Whoever it was said "Couldn't find the right words?"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@PhilosophyExp Not quite. The sentence is "Perfume of embraces all him assailed."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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