Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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The Unheeded, Happy, and Wild Heart of Life
In Ulysses, Stephen declares that he was hydrophobe. But I think Joyce was also hydrophobic. Both were afraid of water. A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare legs were delicate as a cranes and pure,. save where an emerald trail of seaweed had fashioned itself as a sign upon the flesh. The boys swimming call to Stephen. Addressing him with Greek endings on the words. What an awful power, Stephen!
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