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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce
Reading, Writing, Reason Why
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.3562, e-artnow

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

James Joyce
Reading, Demand, Should
Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

James Joyce
Book, Reading, Dublin
James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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