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, p. 283.
17. CIRCE BURNING
ninth typist
:
SC
, p. 63.
had thrown the manuscript
and
“threatened in despair”
and
wake up before dawn:
SC
, pp. 63–64;
SBLG
, p. 80.
arrows and inserts
:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
, p. 208.
Raymonde Linossier
:
SC
, p. 152.
kept her copies hidden
:
Ibid., p. 106.
father’s control
and
law school:
SBP, Box 167 Folder 3.
five-page “novel”
:
Les Soeurs X, “
Bibi-la-Bibiste
,”
LR
7, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1920), pp. 24–29.
one of the only female barristers
:
Sidney Buckland and Myriam Chimènes,
Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 101–2.
nearly one hundred pages
:
the extant fair copy, about half the text (from “the Virgins Nurse Callen” to “Gooood”) is 144 pages long. The Rosenbach MS (in JJ’s smaller hand) is 85 pages plus inserts. See
Ulysses: A Facsimile of the Manuscript
, ed. Clive Driver (New York: Octagon Books, 1975).
“A Whore”
:
The “Circe” details Mr. Harrison presumably reads are gathered from the amanuensis retrieved fair copy (i.e., Buffalo TS V.B.13.b—the copy made from the text photocopied by Quinn). See Joyce and Michael Groden,
James Joyce Archive: Ulysses, “Oxen of the Sun” and “Circe” a Facsimile of Drafts, Manuscripts and Typescripts for Episodes 14 & 15 (Part 1)
(New York: Garland Pub, 1977), pp. 391–8. This volume is referred to as
JJA Circe
below. All formatting and textual details conform to the manuscript version.
“I’ll wring the neck”
:
JJA Circe
, pp. 369, 403.
“
Introibo ad altare diaboli
”
:
JJA Circe
, p. 369. This is the final portion of amanuensis fair copy, which corresponds to “retrieved” version. See
JJA Circe
, p. 404.
“I’ll do him in”
:
JJA Circe
, p. 370.
began tearing up
:
JJ to Weaver, April 9, 1921,
LIII
, p. 40; JJ to JQ, April 19, 1921,
LIII
, p. 41.
“Hysterical scenes”
:
JJ to JQ, April 19, 1921,
LIII
, p. 41. The break elides the phrase “I believe.”
Huebsch finally refused
:
JQ to JJ, June 5, 1921, NYPL.
“it is better to lose”
:
JQ to Huebsch, April 13, 1921, qtd. in
MNY
, p. 486.
On April 21
:
MNY
, p. 485.
squats over Bloom
:
JJA Circe
, pp. 285–87; cf.
Ulysses
, pp. 435–36 (15: 2931–60).
“lap it up”
and
auctioned off:
JJA Circe
, pp. 295–96; cf.
Ulysses
, pp. 439–40 (15: 3075–96).
called Liveright back
:
JQ to JJ, June 5, 1921, NYPL.
“but I guess you’re right”
:
Liveright to JQ, May 15, 1922, NYPL.
“I rather admire”
:
JQ to JJ, June 5, 1921, NYPL.
“My book will never”
:
SC
, p. 47.
“Would you like me”
:
Sylvia Beach interview, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5QWjBOvPo. The wording of this exchange differs from SB’s account in
SC. Note
: SB offered to publish a few days
before
the Circe burning.
about $400
:
See the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ CPI inflation calculator: http://data.bls.govcgi-bin/cpicalc.pl.
66 percent of the profits
:
Ell, p. 505;
SBLG
, pp. 79–80.
come to his office
and
“used language unfit”:
SC
, p 65.
nearly in tears
and
“He will get”:
JQ to Jeanne Robert Foster, May 25, 1921, NYPL.
took Quinn six weeks
:
JQ to JJ, June 5, 1921, NYPL.
“ULYSSES suppressed four times.”
:
HRC, Lake Collection, Box 262 Folder 9.
drummed up buyers
:
SB to Holly Beach, April 23, 1921,
LSB
, pp. 85–86.
in Paris nightclubs
:
SC
, p. 51.
names in a green notebook
:
Austin Archive, Box 262 Folder 10;
SBLG
, p. 88.
ordered twenty-five
:
SBLG
, p. 87.
mobbed
and
doubled its normal revenue:
SB to Holly Beach, April 23, 1921,
LSB
, pp. 84–85, 88.
“the most important book”
:
SB to Eleanor Beach, April 1, 1921, qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 78. SB’s ellipsis.
“American Girl Conducts”
and
“may mean that Miss Beach”:
Rosemary Carr, “American Girl Conducts Novel Bookstore Here,”
Paris Tribune
, May 28, 1921, qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 84.
“It is a revolting”
:
George Bernard Shaw to SB, June 11, 1921, qtd. in
SC
, p. 52.
“a ninth rate coward”
:
EP, “Paris Letter,”
Dial
, June 1922, reprinted
EP/JJ
, p. 198.
finish in 1918
:
JJ to C. P. Curran, March 15, 1917,
LII
, p. 392.
summer of 1919
:
JJ to Weaver, March 20, 1918,
LI
, p. 113.
early 1921
:
JJ to JQ, Nov. 24, 1920,
LIII
, p. 30.
April or May
:
JJ telegram to JQ, Jan. 8, 1921, qtd. in JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
three more weeks
:
JJ to Weaver, Oct. 7, 1921,
LI
, p. 172.
fifty or sixty more hours
:
JJ to Weaver, Nov. 25, 1921, BL.
“What act did Bloom”
:
Ulysses
, p. 546 (17: 70–82).
a series of letters
:
Ell, p. 501.
briefcase
and
contained the letters:
JJ to Ettore Schmitz, Jan. 5, 1921,
SL
, p. 277n; Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 204.
red express stamp
:
Details of JJ’s 1909 letters to Nora from Cornell, Series IV Box 4.
“fucked arseways”
and
told him to pull himself
and
“Yes,” Joyce wrote back, “now I can remember”
and
“to fuck a farting woman”:
JJ to NB, Dec. 8, 1909,
SL
, pp. 184–5.
Christmas gift
and
imagined their grandchildren:
Ibid., Dec. 22, 1909, p. 193.
“Write the dirty words big”
:
Ibid., Dec. 9, 1909, p. 186.
Joyce thought of her
:
JJ to Budgen, Aug. 16, 1921,
SL
, p. 285.
more geological
and
earth:
JJ to Weaver, Feb. 8, 1922,
LI
, p. 180.
“Id confuse him a little”
:
Ulysses
, p. 610 (18: 85–99).
Joyce’s superstitions
:
SC
, p. 43.
Greeks
:
JJ to Weaver, June 24, 1921,
SL
, p. 284; Myron Nutting, “An Evening with James Joye and Wyndham Lewis,” Tulsa, Series 1 Box 176.
certain colors
:
JJ to Weaver, Sept. 20, 1928,
SL
, p. 338.
hosting dinner
:
Colum and Colum,
Our Friend James Joyce
, p. 133.
1+9+2+1
:
JJ to Weaver, April 3, 1921,
LI,
p. 161.
“I am raving”
:
Larbaud qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 94, and
SC
, p. 57.
twenty-second address
:
Ell, p. 498.
leafy courtyard
and
polished floors
and
leather-bound books:
SC
, p. 69; SBP, Box 168 Folder 2; JJ to Francini Bruni, June 7, 1921,
LII
, p. 45.
thousands of soldiers
:
SC
, p. 56, SBP, Box 168 Folder 2.
bars haunted by prostitutes
:
Nora Barnacle qtd. in McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together,
p. 17.
thrown out
:
SBLG
, p. 87.
“Jim, what is it”
:
McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together
, p. 171.
One night at a brasserie
:
Ibid., p. 23.
rolling on the floor
:
JJ to Weaver, Aug. 7, 1921,
LI
, p. 168.
skin stretched over
:
McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together,
p. 25.
more than a month
:
Ell, p. 531 (from about July 3 to Aug. 7).
bandaged
and
“How is he”:
SC
, p. 69.
cabinet edges
:
SBP, Box 168 Folder 1.
ten different episodes simultaneously
:
Luca Crispi and Ronan Crowley, “Proof^Finder: Proofs by Episode,”

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