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VW to Weaver, May 17, 1918, in Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman, eds.,
The Letters of Virginia Woolf
(New York: Mariner, 1976), vol. 2, pp. 242–3.
“to reveal the flickerings”
:
VW, “Modern Novels,” in
Essays
, vol. 3, p. 34.
Eliot dined
:
VW,
Diary
, vol. 2, p. 67 (Sept. 20, 1920).
“what I’m doing”
:
Ibid., p. 69 (Sept. 26, 1920).
spy code
:
EP to JJ, July[?] 1920,
EP/JJ
, p. 182.
“had bitched”
:
EP to JJ, June 10, 1919,
EP/JJ
, p. 157.
“knockmedown cigar”
and
“broadshouldered”:
Ulysses
, p. 251 (12: 502), p. 243 (12: 152–3).
burning pike that blinds
:
See JJ’s schema reprinted in Hugh Kenner,
Dublin’s Joyce
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), pp. 226–7.
Phoenician sailors
:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
, pp. 84–87.
“Bronze by gold”
:
Ulysses,
p. 210 (11: 1–16);
LR
6, no. 4 (Aug. 1919), p. 41.
“I think I can see”
:
Weaver to JJ, June 16, 1919, Cornell, Series IV Box 14.
“got knocked on the head”
and
“
Caro mio
”:
EP to JJ, June 10, 1919,
EP/JJ
, pp. 157–9.
as early as 1915
:
Proteus-Sirens Notebook (II.ii.1.a Notebook), NLI, MS 36,639/7A. See Luca Crispi, “A First Foray into the National Library of Ireland’s Joyce Manuscripts: Bloomsday 2011,”
Genetic Joyce Studies
11 (Spring 2011).
eight-part structure
: Daniel Ferrer, “What Song the Sirens Sang . . . Is No Longer Beyond All Conjecture: A Preliminary Description of the New ‘Proteus’ and ‘Sirens’ Manuscripts,”
JJQ
39, no. 1 (Fall 2001), p. 62–63.
changing radically
:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress,
pp. 17, 37–52.
“darkbacked figure”
:
Ulysses
, p. 192 (520–1).
“Elijah is coming”
:
Ibid., p. 186 (10: 284).
“perverted commas”
:
JJ to Weaver, July 11, 1924,
LIII
, p. 99.
fall and winter
:
Schwartzman, “
Ulysses
on the Rocks,” pp. 455–73.
purple notebooks bound with string
:
Cornell, Series I Box 2 Folder 23.
“Dearer than the whole”
:
Joyce’s process is reconstructed from the “Nausicaa” manuscript notebooks at Cornell as well as from transcriptions of the eight “Nausicaa” notesheets in Phillip Herring,
Joyce’s Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972), pp. 125–61. For a published version of this manuscript passage, see James Joyce and Michael Groden,
Ulysses, “Wandering Rocks,” “Sirens,” “Cyclops,” & “Nausicaa”: A Facsimile of Manuscripts & Typescripts for Episodes 10
–
13
(New York: Garland, 1977), p. 217. This volume is subsequently referred to as
JJA
“
Nausicaa” MS
.
“in that novel that”
:
This phrase occurs in Joyce’s notebook MS (see
JJA “Nausicaa” MS
, p. 216) but disappears in subsequent typescripts and published editions, including
The Little Review
, the 1922 Shakespeare and Company edition and the Gabler edition.
“From everything in”
:
Cornell, Series I, Box 2 Folder 23;
JJA “Nausicaa” MS
, p. 216;
LR
7, no. 1 (May-June 1920), p. 72.
fifteen insertions
and
879 more:
Herring,
Joyce’s Ulysses Notesheets
, pp. 125–61.
11. BRUTAL MADNESS
their favorite hero
:
Gorman,
James Joyce
, p. 45.
“inflamed with a desire”
:
Charles Lamb,
The Adventures of Ulysses
(Boston: Ginn & Co, 1894), p. 1.
“Ulysses is not a hero”
:
Arthur Power,
The Joyce We Knew
, p. 104.
“world-troubling seaman”
:
JJ to JQ, Nov. 17, 1920, NYPL.
most complete human being
:
Borach, “Conversations with James Joyce,” p. 70, and Budgen,
Joyce and Ulysses
, pp. 15–17.
“only a pretext”
:
Ell, p. 416.
several nights a week
and
Ringsend:
JJ to NB, Aug. 7, 1909,
SL
, pp. 158–9.
“Is Georgie my son?”
and
“Were you fucked”:
Ibid.
stop a man’s beating heart
:
JJ to NB, Dec. 3, 1909,
SL
, p. 182.
fit of sobbing
and
slept at Eccles Street:
John Francis Byrne,
Silent Years: An Autobiography with Memoirs of James Joyce and Our Ireland
(New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young), pp. 156–7.
“blasted lie”
:
John Byrne qtd. in JJ to NB, Aug. 19, 1909,
SL
, p. 159.
“in her hand”
and
“Guide me”
and
curling up in her womb:
JJ to NB, Sept. 5, 1909,
SL
, p. 169.
gloves and Donegal tweed
:
Ibid., Nov. 1, 1909, pp. 176–7, and Oct. 27, 1909, pp. 173–6.
ivory necklace
and
“Love Is Unhappy”:
Ibid., Sept. 3, 1909, pp. 167–8.
“great crimson bows”
:
Ibid., Dec. 6, 1909, p. 184.
packages of cocoa
and
womanly
: JJ to SJ, Aug. 21, 1909,
SL
, p. 162; JJ to NB, Sept. 7 and Oct. 27, 1909,
SL
, pp. 170, 175.
perfume
and
stains:
JJ to NB, Dec. 6, 1909,
SL
, p. 184.
certain kind of letter
:
Ibid., Aug. 22, 1909, p. 163.
destroyed her letters
:
Ell, p. 721. Maria Jolas told Ellmann that NB destroyed them on the eve of World War II.
“
Sì
”
:
Sotheby’s “Catalogue Note,” Lot 201, July 8, 2004, London auction, http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.pdf.L04407.html/f/201/L04407-201.pdf.
“Inside this spiritual”
and
“your hot lips”:
JJ to NB, Dec. 2, 1909,
SL
, p. 181.
“of a young man”
:
Yeats to JJ, Dec. 18, 1902,
LII
, p. 23.
“to fuck between”
:
JJ to NB, Dec. 6, 1909,
SL
, pp. 184.
He listed
and
“Fuck me into you”
and
“grunting”:
Ibid., Dec. 16, 1909, pp. 190–1.
“Be careful”
:
JJ telegram qtd. in JJ to NB, Dec. 10, 1909,
SL
, p. 187. Italics in JJ’s letter.
“tore off”
and
“Fuck up”:
Ibid., Dec. 3, 1909, p. 182.
“disjointed”
:
Ibid., Dec. 16, 1909, p. 190.
something she would do
and
she underlined it:
Ibid., Dec. 9, 1909, p. 186.
thin arcs of the cursive
:
Handwriting details from NB’s letters at Cornell, Series IV Box 9.
kissed the word
:
JJ to NB, Dec. 10, 1909, SL, p. 187.
“wild brutal madness”
:
Ibid., Dec. 11, 1909, p. 187.
“hear and smell the dirty”
:
Ibid., Dec. 9, 1909, p. 186.
“vulgar language”
:
Bruce Bradley, “‘Something about Tullabeg’: A Footnote on the Schooldays of James Joyce,”
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
93, no. 370 (Summer 2004), p. 164.
“half past six”
:
Ell, p. 27.
“When you were with him”
and
“I love you”:
JJ to NB, Dec. 3, 1909,
SL
, p. 183.
“to feel you bending down”
:
Ibid., Dec. 13[?], 1909, p. 189.
“Nora, Nora mia”
and
“talking, talking”:
Ibid., Dec. 16, 1909, p. 191. My ellipsis (JJ includes an ellipsis shortly thereafter).
“ideal reader”
:
JJ,
Finnegans Wake
(New York: Penguin, 2000), p. 120.
12. SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY
candle flame
:
SC
, p. 18; SBP, Box 168 Folder 4, and
SBLG
, p. 39.
“probably the best”
:
Eugene Jolas qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 41.
collecting shrapnel
and
skeletons:
SB to Cyprian Beach, March 11, 1919,
LSB,
pp. 55–56.
stagnant
and
“Please”:
SB to Slyvester Beach, Jan. 29, 1919,
LSB,
p. 46.
market vendors
:
Ibid., p. 63; Lenka Yovitchitch,
Pages from Here and There in Serbia
(Belgrade: S. B. Cvijanovich, 1926), pp. 75–80.
Gypsy women
:
LSB
, pp. 54, 64.
She handed out
:
SB to Eleanor Beach, Feb. 2, 1919,
LSB,
p. 49.
pajamas
and
barefoot:
SBP, Box 168 Folder 6, Box 169 Folder 3.
delousing plant
:
LSB
, pp. 55, 58.
documenting inhabitants
:
SB to Slyvester Beach, Jan. 29, 1919,
LSB
, p. 47.
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