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:
Victor Llona, “Mrs. James Joyce and Her Controversial Husband,”
Cimarron Review
70 no. 74 (Jan. 1986), pp. 55–60, p. 56.
spoke Triestino
:
Ell, p. 389.
writing on the floor
:
Lucia Joyce, “The Real Life of James Joyce,” Lucia Joyce Papers, HRC, Box 1 Folder 3.
“I write and think”
:
JJ to EP, July 24, 1917 (unpublished), qtd. in Ell, p. 416. I am eliding a sentence after “think.”
in February 1917
:
Ell, p. 413.
going to burst
:
Casey Albert Wood,
A System of Ophthalmic Therapeutics; Being a Complete Work on the Non-Operative Treatment, Including the Prophylaxis, of Diseases of the Eye
. (Chicago: Cleveland Press, 1909), p. 807.
In 1907
and
“disabled”:
SJ, Trieste Diary, May 23–July 4, 1907, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 142.
twelve more
:
Weaver to Brewerton, Aug. 30, 1922, BL; JJ to Weaver, Oct. 27 and 28, 1922, BL.
Joyce’s condition
:
JJ to Forrest Reid, May 10, 1917,
LII
, p. 395; Weaver to Marsh, Sept. 11, 1917,
LII
, p. 407. Joyce describes both a synechia and secondary glaucoma from iritis.
sticky fluid
:
Wood,
System of Ophthalmic Therapeutics
, pp. 764–5.
right eye blind
:
Ibid., p. 765.
most appealing treatment
:
Ibid., pp. 766–7.
separate the synechia
:
Ibid., p. 430.
increased intraocular pressure
:
Ibid., pp. 62, 429; Francisco J. Ascaso and Jordi Bosch, “Uveitic Secondary Glaucoma: Influence in James Joyce’s (1882–1941) Last Works,”
Journal of Medical Biography
18, no. 1 (Feb 2010), pp. 57–61, p. 60n19.
give Joyce atropine
:
JQ to EP (enclosure from Dr. Shannon), July 7, 1917, NYPL.
developed glaucoma
:
NB to JQ, April 30, 1917,
LII
, p. 395.
fainting, headaches, throat irritation
:
Wood,
System of Ophthalmic Therapeutics
, pp. 59, 429.
hallucinations
:
Jan Dirk Blom,
A Dictionary of Hallucinations
(New York: Springer, 2010), pp. 42–43; Manuchair S. Ebadi,
Desk Reference of Clinical Pharmacology
(Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2008), p. 634.
irritated throat
:
JJ to Weaver, July 7, 1917,
LI,
p. 103.
began hallucinating
:
EP to JJ, March 17, 1917,
EP/JJ
, p. 103.
Quinn purchased
:
JQ to JJ, April 11, 1917, NYPL.
wrote to Nora
:
JQ to NB, May 25, 1917, NYPL.
“best eye expert”
and
“Poor fellow”:
JQ to EP, June 6, 1917, NYPL.
“Thanks for the photograph”
:
EP to JJ, Dec. 20, 1916,
EP/JJ
, p. 85.
“by having a vertebra”
:
Ibid., March 17, 1917, p. 101.
slips of paper
:
Ell, p. 420; JJ to Sykes, Dec. 22[?], 1917,
LII
, p. 415.
“Names and Places”
and
“tainted curds”:
Early Ulysses Subject Notebook for Drafts (1917) (II.i.1. Notebook), NLI, MS 36,639/3 (See online at http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000357760#page/1/mode/1up); Myron Schwartzman, “
Ulysses
on the Rocks: The Evolution of the ‘Nausikaa’ Episode with a Suggested Addition to the Final Text,”
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
80, no. 4 (Summer 1977), p. 646.
was simply “We”
:
Phillip Herring,
Joyce’s Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977), p. 83.
known exactly where
:
Michael Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
(Princeton: Princeton University, 1977), p. 111.
note taking increased
:
Ibid., p. 43.
notes from his notes
:
See Luca Crispi, “A First Foray into the National Library of Ireland’s Joyce Manuscripts: Bloomsday 2011,”
Genetic Joyce Studies
11 (Spring 2011).
small suitcase
:
JJ to JQ, Nov. 24, 1920,
LIII
, p. 30.
on both sides
:
See Proteus-Sirens Notebook (II.ii.1.a Notebook), NLI, MS 36,639/7A. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000357771#page/1/mode/1up.
manipulated conversations
:
August Suter, “Some Reminiscences of James Joyce,” in Potts,
Portraits of the Artist in Exile
, p. 61.
Everything around him
and
small notebook:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses
, pp. 171–2.
talked to the cat
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 150.
“Mrkgnao!”
:
Ulysses
, p. 45 (4: 25).
marketplace reminded her
:
NB to JJ, Aug. 4, 1917,
LII
, p. 401.
about the thunderstorms
:
Ibid., ca. Aug. 10, 1917, p. 402.
“I shall wait”
:
Ibid., ca. Aug. 12, 1917, p. 403.
ashplant cane
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses,
p. 11.
Bahnhofstrasse
:
Ibid., 27.
the same colors
:
Liam Kelly, National Transport Museum of Ireland, May 18, 2011, email and photographs.
nearby bench
:
Gorman,
James Joyce
, p. 259; Ell, p. 417; JJ to EP, Aug. 20, 1917,
SL
, pp. 226–7.
halos around the
:
Arthur Lim,
Acute Glaucoma: Acute Primary Closed Angle Glaucoma, Major Global Blinding
Problem
(Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2002), p. 13.
retinal arteries throbbing
:
Wood,
System of Ophthalmic Therapeutics
, p. 808.
his surgery
:
See Buffalo, Series XIX Folder 20. Joyce’s 1921 drawing of his 1917 surgery indicates a peripheral iridectomy.
The surgeon held
:
Charles Beard,
Ophthalmic Surgery: A Treatise
on Surgical Operations Pertaining to the Eye and Its Appendages, with Chapters on Para-Operative Technic and Management of Instruments
(Philadelphia: P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., 1914), pp. 457–462; Josef Meller,
Ophthalmic Surgery: A Handbook of Surgical Operations on the Eyeball and its Appendages: As Practised at the Clinic of Prof. Hofrat Fuchs
(Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1912), pp. 180–6.
Exudate flowed over
:
JJ to Weaver, March 11, 1923,
LI
, p. 201.
nervous breakdown
:
NB to EP, Aug. 28, 1917,
LII
, p. 405; Weaver to JJ, Nov. 10, 1916, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
flitting into corners
:
Blom,
Dictionary of Hallucinations
, pp. 42–43.
bled for two weeks
:
NB to Weaver, Sept. 8, 1917,
LII
, p. 406. See also EP to JQ, Sept. 10, 1917, NYPL.
ensconcing himself
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 149.
asked Nora to cheat
:
Frank Budgen,
Myselves When Young
(London: Oxford University Press, 170), p. 188.
two and a half shillings
:
JJ to Pinker, July 8, 1917,
LII
, p. 399.
only 750 copies
:
Ell, p. 414.
“How many intelligent”
:
EP to JJ, Aug. 15, 1917,
EP/JJ
, p. 123 (Pound’s emphasis).
keeping his family warm
:
JJ to EP Aug. 20, 1917,
SL
, pp. 226.
“the bread of”
:
MBK
, p. 104.
“above all languages”
:
JJ qtd. in Ell, p. 397.
advance all of civilization
:
JJ to Richards, June 23, 1906,
LI
, p. 64.
Scofield Thayer
:
Ell, p. 457.
Edith McCormick
:
Ibid., p. 423.
London law firm
:
Slack, Monro, Saw & Co. to JJ, Feb. 22, 1917,
LII
, p. 389. See also
DMW
, p. 134; Ell, p. 413.
annual salary
:
Ell, p. 313.
read portions
and
little to say:
Ibid., pp. 421–2.
“wading like a heron”
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses
, pp. 11–12.
“Why all this fuss”
:
JJ qtd. in ibid., p. 320
doll’s underwear
:
Suter, “Some Reminiscences of Joyce,” p. 61.
“Among other things”
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses
, p. 21.
all day on two sentences
:
Ibid., pp. 19–20.
graph paper
:
Philip Herring, “Ulysses’ Notebook VIII.A.5 at Buffalo,”
Studies in Bibliography
22 (1969), p. 287–310.
“Can you read it?”
:
Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses,
p. 173.
9. POWER AND POSTAGE
“It was like a burning”
:
TYW
, p. 175.
“German agents”
:
Christopher M. Finan,
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act
(Boston: Beacon Press, 2007), p. 12.
“The only badge”
:
Albany Journal
ad qtd. in Christopher Capozzola, “The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion and the Law in World War I America,”

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