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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@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.
@distantcities Yup, that's the story. Was it Pound? I think I read the story in Ellmann's biography? Possibly.
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@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 I'm afraid I can't remember who it was. It's either in Ellmann or Stan Gebler Davies's book, I think. Or both, maybe.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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