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Garner,
Spirit,
p. 43.
“a vast revolution”
:
Marsden qtd. in ibid: pp. 56
–
57.
“centre of the Universe”
:
Marsden qtd. in Andrew Thacker, “Dora Marsden and
The
Egoist:
‘Our War Is with Words,’”
Twentieth Century Literature
36, no. 2 (1993), p. 186.
“destroy Causes”
:
Marsden,
Freewoman
, July 1, 1913, p. 25, qtd. in Mark Morrisson, “Marketing British Modernism:
The Egoist
and Counter-Public Spheres,”
Twentieth Century Literature
43 (Winter 1997), p. 456.
“should be banished”
:
Marsden, “Intellect and Culture,”
New Freewoman
, Jan. 7, 1913, p. 24, qtd. in Thacker, “Marsden and
Egoist,
” p. 186.
“Our war is with”
:
Marsden,
Egoist
, Jan. 1, 1915, p. 1, qtd. in Thacker, Marsden and
Egoist
, p. 188.
“poets and creative”
:
Marsden, “The Growing Ego,”
Freewoman
, Aug. 8, 1912, pp. 221
–
2.
“I suppose I’m”
:
EP to Marsden (n.d). qtd. in “Bruce Clarke, “Dora Marsden and Ezra Pound:
The New Freewoman
’ and ‘The Serious Artist,’ ”
Contemporary Literature
33, no. 1 (Spring 1992), p. 100.
“presents the image”
:
EP, “The Serious Artist,”
Early Writings
, p. 239.
Marsden changed
:
Bruce Clarke,
Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, and Science
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 129–30.
“a VORTEX”
:
EP, “Vorticism,”
Early Writings
, p. 289.
“WE ONLY WANT”
:
Blast
1, June 28, 1914, p. 31.
“TO THE INDIVIDUAL”
:
Ibid., p. 7 (unnumbered).
“WE ADMIRE YOUR ENERGY”
:
Ibid., p. 151.
“He attacks Mother”
:
Ibid., p. 25.
“great enemy”
:
Ibid., p. 27.
one-thousand-page
:
JJ to Grant Richards, March 13, 1906,
LII
, p. 132.
into the fire
:
Ell, p. 314.
“I’m not supposed”
:
EP to JJ, Jan. 17 and 19, 1914.
EP/JJ
, p. 24.
4. TRIESTE
Everyone thought the same
:
Stephen Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,”
International Security
9, no. 1 (Summer 1984), pp. 58–107.
fifty million people
:
See
LSB
, p. 49n.
Nora watched Joyce
:
Ell, p. 179.
“I saw a life”
:
John Joyce to JJ, April 24, 1907,
LII
, p. 221.
only merchant seaport
:
John McCourt,
The Years of Bloom
:
James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920
(Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), p. 28.
second-largest port
:
Ibid., p. 29.
2.5 million tons
:
Karl Baedeker,
Austria-Hungary, Including Dalmatia and Bosnia
;
Handbook for Travelers
(New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1905), p. 205.
population grew
:
McCourt,
Years,
p. 33.
ostrich feathers
:
Peter Hartshorn,
James Joyce and Trieste
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997), p. 25.
laugh at Nora’s
and
forced to leave:
JJ to SJ, July 12, 1905,
LII
, p. 93
–
94.
twenty crowns
:
Ell, p. 262.
“Will all that paper”
:
JJ to SJ, Jan. 19, 1905,
LII
, p. 78.
eighty-five crowns
and
lower end:
McCourt,
Years,
p. 33.
with electric lighting
:
Ibid., p. 63.
too steep and narrow
:
Baedeker,
Austria-Hungary
, p. 206.
sang songs
:
Mario Nordio, “My First English Teacher,”
JJQ
9, no. 3 (Spring 1972), p. 324.
in the gutter
:
Alessandro Francini Bruni, “Recollections of Joyce,” in Willard Potts, ed.,
Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979), p. 40.
drag his older brother back
:
Ell, p. 213.
Dante-esque Italian
:
Francini Bruni, “Recollections,” p. 40.
“Do you want”
and
“Faith I tell”:
Ell, pp. 267
–
8.
advances on his wages
:
JJ to SJ, July 12, 1905,
LII
, p. 94.
“It’s no use”
:
Ell, p. 215.
“Ireland is”
and
“The tax collector”:
Alessandro Francini Bruni, “Joyce Stripped Naked in the Piazza,” in Potts,
Portraits of the Artist in Exile
, p. 27. Ellipsis in original.
“I will not serve”
:
JJ,
A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, ed. Chester G. Anderson (New York: Viking, 1968), pp. 246–7.
an anarchist
and
his stomach:
SJ, Trieste Diary, April 11, 1907, Tulsa, Series 1 Box 142. For more on Joyce’s anachronism, see Dominic Manganiello,
Joyce’s Politics
(London, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980), and “The Politics of the Unpolitical in Joyce’s Fictions,”
JJQ
29, no. 2 (Winter 1992), pp. 241
–
58. See also David Kadlec,
Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), pp. 90
–
121.
Parliament empowered
:
Metropolitan Police Act 1839 2&3 Vict. c. 47.
“profane, indecent, or obscene”
:
Ibid.
By 1878, the British
:
Stefan, Petrow,
Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office, 1870–1914
(New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 31
–
32.
137 students
:
Hartshorn,
James Joyce and Trieste
, p. 5.
Trieste was empty
and
pieces of string:
Ibid., p. 109.
books crammed
and
chairs:
McCourt,
Years
, p. 209; Ell, p. 381.
“Stately, plump”
:
Ulysses
, p. 3 (1: 1).
finished the first chapter
:
JJ to SJ, June 16, 1915,
SL
, p. 209.
air raids
:
Ell, p. 383; Hartshorn,
James Joyce and Trieste,
p. 108.
“
Avanti, Cagoia
”
:
Gorman,
James Joyce
, p. 229; Philip Nicholas Furbank,
Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), p. 101.
list of enemy aliens
and
arrested:
Franz Stanzel, “The Austrian Subtext of James Joyce’s
Ulysses
,”
Anglistik
16, no. 2 (2005), p. 71; Stanzel, “Austria’s Surveillance of Joyce in Pola, Trieste, and Zurich,”
JJQ
38, no 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2001), pp. 363–4.
Austrian mobs
:
McCourt,
Years,
p. 246; Hartshorn,
James Joyce and Trieste
, p. 108.
state of siege
and
last open bakery:
Furbank,
Italo Svevo
, p. 101.
“Whoever has”
:
JJ qtd. in McCourt,
Years,
p. 243.
only 499 copies
:
Grant Richards to JJ, April 29, 1915, Cornell, Series IV Box 13.
twenty-six copies
:
Ell, p. 400.
a short story
:
JJ to SJ, Sept. 30, 1906,
LII
, p. 168.
gathering his ideas
:
Rodney Wilson Owen,
James Joyce and the Beginnings of Ulysses
(Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983), pp. 63–69.
“the soul”
:
JJ,
Stephen Hero
, p. 213.
“intense instant”
:
Ulysses
, p. 160 (9: 381, 383–5).
“Ineluctable modality”
:
Ibid., p. 31 (3: 1–4).
5. SMITHY OF SOULS
Newsstand sales
:
Garner,
Spirit
, p. 116.
“unsuitable to be exposed”
:
Ibid., p. 77; Thacker, “Marsden and
Egoist,
” pp. 183
–
4.
publisher withdrew
:
Garner,
Spirit,
pp. 97–98.
two hundred pounds
:
DMW
, p. 57.
“edited on a mountaintop”
:
Weaver qtd.
DMW
, pp. 53
–
54.
leasing a new office
and
London printers:
Ibid., pp. 87, 108.
three-room flat
and
flowers:
Ibid., p. 89.
stage production

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