Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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Ulysses by Joyce
The bearded figure of Mananan Mahkleir broods chin on knees. He rises slowly, a cold sea wind blows from his druid mouth. About his head-rive eels and elvers, he is encrusted with weeds and shells. His right hand holds a bicycle pump, his left hand grasps a huge crayfish by its two talons. My friend Padrek Calum tells me that the Dublin poet AE, who was a contemporary and no favourite of Joyce, once appeared in just this way as Mananan in a special production of his own play, Dardra. Indeed, Joyce here is poking fun, but his mode throughout Ulysses is
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