The Underbred James Joyce
Art of Darkness
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Do We Like the Free and Direct James Joyce or the Underbred James Joyce?
Joyce met Yeats in Trieste, where he was a celebrity writer at this time. He's sort of the biggest deal in literary Ireland,. Joyce asks him how old are you? And Yeats tells him he's like 40 or something at that time. James just kind of shakes his head and says, yeah, unfortunately, you're too old for me to help you."
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