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Genetic Joyce Studies
8 (Spring 2008), http://www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/GJS8/Proof%5Efinder/Proofs.Episode.jsp.
“Agenbite”
:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
, p. 199.
twelve-hour days
:
JJ to Weaver, Aug. 7, 1921,
LI
, p. 168.
elaborate new scene
:
Ibid., p. 188.
“I’m a Bloomite”
:
Ulysses
, p. 401 (15: 1736); cf. “gloried in it,” Sumner deposition dated Oct. 21, 1920, quoted in Quinn’s Motion to Transfer and JQ to EP, Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5. I am indebted to David Weir for this connection. See Weir, “What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?:
The Little Review
, Joyce and
Ulysses
”
JJQ
37, no. 3/4 (2000), p. 402.
“stylish garters”
:
Ulysses
, p. 401 (15: 1750).
“passes through several”
:
Ibid., p. 404 (15: 1842–3).
18. THE BIBLE OF THE OUTCASTS
“May I kiss”
:
Richard Ellmann, “A Portrait of the Artist as Friend,”
Kenyon Review
18, no. 1 (Winter 1956), p. 67.
master printer
and
vine-covered:
SBP, Box 168 Folder 8.
his father’s days
:
SC
, p. 47.
darned socks
and
afternoon meals:
SBP, Box 168 Folders 2 and 5.
Darantière worked through
:
SBP, Box 166 Folder 5. He did not spell his name with an accent grave.
ran off the pages
and
illegible
and
repeatedly warned:
Darantière to SB, June 9, 1921, Buffalo XIV.9, and Darantière to SB, June 16, 1921, Buffalo XIV.10.
time consuming
:
Darantière to SB, June 9, 1921, Buffalo XIV.9 (“
très onéreuses
”).
all the galleys he wanted
:
SC
, p. 58.
different additions to each
and
blank pieces:
Luca Crispi and Ronan Crowley, “Proof^Finder: Placards,”
Genetic Joyce Studies
8 (Spring 2008). http://www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/GJS8/Proof%5Efinder/Placards.jsp.
“
le
très grand”
:
Darantière to SB, Sept. 30, 1921, Buffalo XIV.35, Darantière’s emphasis.
could not even speak English
:
Maurice Hirchwald to SB, Oct. 11, 1921, Buffalo XIV.38.
five thousand francs
:
SB to Holly Beach, Sept. 22, 1921,
LSB
, p. 88.
help of Miss Weaver
:
JJ to Weaver, Nov. 25, 1921, BL. JJ asked Weaver for £75 for Darantière.
four galleys and five page proofs
:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
, pp. 188–9; Crispi and Crowley, “Proof^Finder: Proofs by Episode” and “Proof^Finder: Placards.”
almost a third
:
SC
, p. 58.
nearly half of “Penelope”
:
James Van Dyck Card,
An Anatomy of “Penelope”
(Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984), p. 83.
about four thousand francs
:
Darantière to SB, Dec. 3, 1921, Buffalo.
“It’s the great fanaticism is”
:
NB qtd. in Djuna Barnes, “James Joyce,”
Vanity Fair
(April 1922), p. 65.
match the Greek flag
:
SC
, p. 63.
until January 31
:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
, p. 191.
telegram from Paris
:
SBP, Box 168 Folder 8;
SBLG
, p. 106.
Gare de Lyons
:
SC
, p. 84;
SBLG
, p. 114;
LII
, p. 58n.
a crowd formed
:
SC,
p. 85; SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
nearly three and a half
and
“you never know”:
JJ to SB, Feb. 11, 1922,
JJ/SB
, pp. 10–11. This is its weight with its hard cover.
slather glue
:
SC
, p. 86.
“Mr. James Joyce is a man”
:
Sisley Huddleston, “
Ulysses
,” London
Observer
, March 5, 1922, qtd. Robert Deming, ed.,
James Joyce: The Critical Heritage
(London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1970), vol. 1, p. 214.
“a prodigious self-laceration”
:
J. Middleton Murry, “Mr. Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’”
Nation & Athenaeum
. April 22, 1922, pp. 124–5.
“dazzlingly original”
:
Arnold Bennett, “James Joyce’s
Ulysses
,”
Outlook
, April 29, 1922, qtd. in Deming,
Joyce: Critical Heritage
, p. 221.
Ulysses
was sold out
:
Ell, p. 531;
SBLG
, p. 120.
next two months
:
SB to Weaver, June 8, 1922,
LSB
, p. 93.
people would gawk
:
Ell, p. 532.
“the dirtiest, most indecent”
:
Lawrence qtd. in Rachel Potter, “Obscene Modernism and the Trade in Salacious Books,”
Modernism/Modernity
16 (2009), p. 92.
Miss Beach’s father
:
SBLG
, p. 246.
“a freak production”
:
Liverpool Daily Courier
, qtd. in
DMW
endpapers.
“diabolic clairvoyance”
:
New York Herald
(Paris ed.), April 17, 1922, copied from Yale Joyce, Box 40 Folder 634.
“the maddest, muddiest”
:
S.B.P. Mais, “An Irish Revel,”
Daily Express
, March 25, 1922, qtd.
DMW
endpapers.
well-known editor
:
Robert Jackson,
Case for the Prosecution: A Biography of Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions, 1920
–
1930
(London: A. Barker, 1962), p. 235.
“I say deliberately”
:
James Douglas, “Beauty—and the Beast.”
Sunday Express,
May 28, 1922, p. 5, in Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 327.
“literary Bolshevism”
:
Shane Leslie, “
Ulysses
,”
Quarterly Review
, Oct. 1922, reprinted in Deming,
Joyce: Critical Heritage
, p. 207, and Alfred Noyes, “Rottenness in Literature,”
Sunday Chronicle
, Oct. 29, 1922, in Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 327.
“the man with the bomb”
:
Mais, “An Irish Revel.” My ellipsis.
“anarchical production”
:
Edmund Gosse to Louis Gillet, June 7, 1924, SBP, Box 167 Folder 7; Ell, 528n.
“devilish drench”
:
“Domini Canis” (Shane Leslie),
Dublin Review
, in Deming,
Joyce: Critical Heritage
, p. 201.
“the well-guarded”
:
Shane Leslie,
Quarterly Review
, ccxxxviii (Oct. 1922), pp. 219–34, qtd. in Deming,
Joyce: Critical Heritage
, vol. 1, p. 211.
Josephine hid her copy
:
Ell, p. 530;
SBLG
, p. 124.
“I should think”
:
SJ to JJ, Feb. 26, 1922,
LIII
, p. 58.
offered to sell it
:
Ell, p. 525.
“counting the cover”
:
JJ to Josephine Murray, Nov. 10, 1922,
LI
, p. 193.
cut the pages
:
Ell, p. 526.
“I guess the man’s”
:
McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together
, p. 182.
“You should approach”
:
Faulkner qtd. in Philip Gourevitch,
The Paris Review:
Interviews
(New York: Picador, 2009), p. 50.
drew a picture
:
SC
, p. 116.
“That young man”
:
JJ qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 275.
“I shall never write”
:
Burton Rascoe,
A Bookman’s Daybook
(New York: H. Liveright, 1929) p. 27.
“the Christian era”
and
calendar:
LR
8, no. 2 (Spring 1922), p. 40.
told Margaret Anderson to reprint
:
EP to MCA (Jan.–April 1922 [n.d.]),
EP/LR
, p. 282.
“the whole boil”
:
EP, “Monumental,” qtd. in
EP/JJ
, p. 260.
barely started
:
EP/JJ
, p. 11.
fake his own death
:
[Rodker?] to MCA, April 14, 1922,
EP/LR
, p. 283.
“a step toward making”
:
T. S. Eliot, “Ulysses, Order, and Myth,”
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), p. 178.
“How could anyone write”
:
T. S. Eliot qtd. in VW,
Diary of Virginia Woolf
, vol. 5, p. 353 (Jan. 15, 1941).
“It destroyed the whole”
:
Ibid., vol. 2, p. 203 (Sept. 26, 1922).
“a book to which”
:
Eliot, “Ulysses, Order, and Myth,” p. 175.
“amused, stimulated”
and
“An illiterate, underbred”:
VW,
Diary of Virginia Woolf
, vol. 2, pp. 188–9 (Aug. 16, 1922).
ate with his fingers
:
VW, “Character in Fiction,”
Essays of Virginia Woolf
,
vol
.
3, p. 434.
felt sorry for him

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