“And if he had judged her h

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird’s life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird’s heart?

— James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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 reading her was the continuation of my self, ____________________________

call you a witch because there is no meaning that is inseparable from your absence, my stubborn reach for your impossible blood.

— Miranda Metelski, from “Pre-Op: Notes Towards the Constellatory Body,” Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed

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 Ask yourself how come Joyce juxtaposed here with Dada an other works... his legendary chess game with T. T. Tristan Tzara, notwithstanding

..   In a secret only recently uncovered  journal notations while writing the last sections of Ulysses,... J... J acknowledged the importance and long lasting ness which prove to be the case now.. of the poetry...

Joyce did have an aversion later years to the Surrealist idea of automatic unconscious which not a part of the Dadaists perception an practice......................................................................