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Lands,”
Time
, Jan. 29, 1934. Joyce was on the cover of this issue.
“Thus one half”
:
JJ to Constantine Curran, Dec. 20, 1933,
LI
, p. 338. JJ’s ellipsis.
Lucia cut
:
Ell, p. 667.
10.15
and
“Go ahead”:
Harry Hansen, “The First Reader,”
New York World-Telegram
, Jan. 25, 1934, qtd.
UvU
, pp. 11–12.
Reichl, a PhD
:
See Martha Scotford, “Ulysses: Fast Track to 1934 Bestseller,”
Design Observer
, Dec. 2, 2009 http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=12067.
most widely read
:
Gunther,
Learned Hand,
p. 285. See also Irving Younger, “Ulysses in Court: A Speech,”
Classics of the Courtroom: The Litigation Surrounding the First Publication of James Joyce’s Novel in the United States
, ed. James McElhaney (Minnetonka: Professional Education Group, 1989).
initial printing of ten thousand
:
Lewis Gannett, “Books and Things,”
New York Herald-Tribune
, Dec. 9, 1933, qtd.
UvU
, p. 330.
“a really phenomenal figure”
:
Cerf to Léon, Jan. 17, 1934,
UvU
, p. 357.
thirty-three thousand
:
JJ to Weaver, April 24, 1934,
LI
, p. 340.
check for $7,500
:
Cerf,
At Random
, p. 101.
fifth highest-selling
:
Satterfield,
World’s Best Books,
p. 140.
Roth’s edition
:
“Edition of ‘Ulysses’ to End Pirating Is Copy of Pirated Book,” unidentified newspaper clipping, Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 321.
27. THE TABLES OF THE LAW
“to arrest developments”
:
BNA, H.O. 144/20071 (Old Ref. # 186.428/60).
MacCarthy
and
“whether we regarded”:
Ibid. (Old Ref. # 186.428/41).
examined Woolsey’s decision
:
Ibid. (Old Ref. # 186.428/43).
Martin Conboy, a close friend
and
St. Gregory:
“Conboy Is Named Federal Attorney; Succeeds Medalie,”
NYT
, Nov. 26, 1933.
regent
:
“Georgetown Hears Roosevelt Praised,”
NYT
, June 13, 1933.
Catholic Club
:
“Conboy Denounces Religion in Politics,”
NYT
, April 28, 1924.
former lawyer
:
UvU
, p. 12.
“This is an obscene”
:
“Conboy Recites from Ulysses and Girl Flees,”
New York Daily News
, May 18, 1934, reprinted in
UvU
, p. 449.
didn’t even
exist
:
Ernst,
To the Pure
, qtd. in
UvU
, p. 376.
Hicklin Rule
:
Government Brief,
UvU
, p. 374. Conboy cites
Bennett
,
Rosen
and
Dunlop
, among others.
all irrelevant
and
“A book that is obscene”:
Government Brief,
UvU
, p. 376.
“No reasonable man”
:
Ibid.
list of fifty-three
:
Ibid., p. 374.
“unchaste and lustful”
and
“Are you going”:
“Ulysses, ‘Unchaste and Lustful,’ No Lunchtime Story for 3 Judges,”
New York World-Telegram
, May 16, 1934, reprinted in
UvU
, p. 444.
gasped and walked out
:
“Conboy Opens U.S. Appeal to Bar
Ulysses
,”
New York Herald-Tribune
, May 17, 1934, and “Conboy Recites from
Ulysses
and Girl Flees,”
New York Daily News
, May 18, 1934, reprinted in.
UvU
, pp. 447, 449.
most publicized obscenity case
:
Gunther,
Learned Hand
, p. 284.
annoyed
and
“that’s a very dangerous”
and
“give the book”
and
“could excite”:
Ibid, pp. 288–9.
“Who can doubt”
:
United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce
, 72 F.2d 705 (2d Cir. 1934), Manton dissent. The title of the case changed slightly at the Circuit Court.
“I cannot say”
:
Augustus Hand qtd. in Gunther,
Learned Hand
, p. 288.
“coarse, blasphemous”
:
United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce
, 72 F.2d 705 (2d Cir. 1934).
“the admirable way”
:
BNA, H.O. 144/20071 (Old Ref. # 186.428/49).
Winkworth
and
“whether you are able”
and
“If I can purchase a copy”
and
“if this limited edition”:
Ibid. (Old Ref. # 186.428/60).
“inadequate”
and
intent and context
and
“to take no further action”:
Ibid. (Old Ref. # 186.428/61).
cataracts
and
an artificial pupil:
June 1930 medical report, Berg Collection (reprinted in
LIII
, pp. 197–8); Vogt to JJ, Dec. 1, 1930,
LIII
, p. 208.
could not fully see
:
JJ to SJ, Aug. 3, 1930,
LIII
, p. 48; JJ to Herbert Gorman, Oct. 5, 1930,
LIII
, p. 203.
“You would do better”
:
JJ qtd. in Paul Léon, “In Memory of Joyce,” in Potts,
Portraits of the Artist in Exile
, p. 289.
EPILOGUE
“Say! What was the most”
:
Ulysses
, p. 438 (15: 3042–3).
“utterly without”
:
Roth
v.
United States
354 U.S. 476 (1957).
“turgid welter”
:
Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson, Jan. 6, 1923, in
Letters of Edith Wharton
(New York: Scribner, 1988), p. 461.
“a dogged attempt”
:
E. M. Forster, “Fantasy,”
in
Aspects of the Novel
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927), p. 177.
“I feel like shouting”
:
Hart Crane qtd. in Deming,
Joyce Critical Heritage
, p. 284.
“some fanatic”
:
Hart Crane, letter, July 27, 1992, in Brom Weber, ed.,
The Letter of Hart Crane
(New York: Hermitage House, 1952), p. 95.
“Oh, yes”
:
Vladimir Nabokov,
Strong Opinions
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973), p. 56.
“And there shall be”
:
Henry Miller,
The Henry Miller Reader
(New York: New Directions, 1969), p. 227.
two Joyceans
:
See Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon,
The Lost Notebook: New Evidence on the Genesis of Ulysses/James Joyce
(Edinburgh: Split Pea Press, 1989).
missing accent marks
:
See John Kidd, “Gaelic in the New
Ulysses
,”
Irish Literary Supplement
4, no. 2 (Fall 1985), pp. 41–42.
“a divine work of art”
:
Nabokov,
Strong Opinions
, p. 56.
one hundred thousand
:
Julie Brannon,
Who Reads Ulysses?: A Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars and the Common Reader
(New York: Routledge, 2003), p. 11.
mock trial
:
Nola Tully, ed.,
Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
(New York: Vintage Books, 2004), p. 83.
Two hundred cities
:
Ibid., p. 129.
“Yo, Bloom”
:
Aaron Beall qtd. in Tully,
Yes I Said Yes,
p. 78.
sixteen hours
and
warns the audience
and
cab drivers, travel agents:
Isaiah Sheffer in Tully,
Yes I Said Yes,
pp. 15, 81; “Bloomsday Marathon on West Side,”
NYT
, June 17, 1983.
first Bloomsday
:
Peter Costello and Peter Van de Kamp,
Flann O’Brien: An Illustrated Biography
(London: Bloomsbury, 1987).
stop traffic
:
“Bloomsday in Dublin, a Time for Rejoycing,”
NYT
, June 19, 1977.
breakfast to ten thousand
:
Tully,
Yes I Said Yes
, p. 73.
crowded onto the stairs
:
Robert Nicholson, in Tully,
Yes I Said Yes,
p. 75.
hats and striped blazers
:
“They May Not Have Read ‘Ulysses,’ but It’s a Good Excuse for a Highbrow Party,”
NYT
, June 17, 2004, p. E3.
Dignam’s funeral
:
Nicholson, in Tully,
Yes I Said Yes,
p. 75.
“Here’s me!”
:
JJ qtd. in
MBK
, p. 7.
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