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VW,
Diary of Virginia Woolf,
vol. 2, p. 199 (Sept. 6, 1922).
“I feel that myriads”
:
Ibid., p. 200.
“as though one’s mind”
:
Mansfield to Sydney Schiff, Jan. 15, 1922,
Letters of Katherine Mansfield
, vol. 2, pp. 434–5.
“A mad book!”
and
“I have made”:
Yeats qtd. in Ell, p. 530. Ellmann’s source is a 1947 interview with L.A.G. Strong.
Joyce was schizophrenic
:
Ell, p. 628.
“a new, universal”
:
Carl Gustav Jung, “Ulysses: A Monologue,” in
The Collected Works of CG Jung: The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
(London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1979), vol. 15, p. 132.
“I must read”
:
VW,
Diary of Virginia Woolf,
vol. 2, p. 200 (Sept. 7, 1922).
“an incessant shower”
:
VW, “Modern Novels,”
Essays of Virginia Woolf,
vol. 3, p. 33.
returned to a short story
and
“cheapness”
and
“central things”:
VW,
Diary of Virginia Woolf
, vol. 2, pp. 247–49 (June 19, 1923); Quentin Bell,
Virginia Woolf: A Biography
(London: Hogarth, 1978), pp. 99–100, 105.
“fucked yes”
:
Ulysses
, p. 641 (18: 1511).
“I’ll wring the bastard”
:
Ibid., p. 490 (15: 4720–1).
“lick my shit”
:
Ibid., p. 642 (15: 1531).
“the grey sunken”
:
Ibid., p. 50 (4: 227–8).
“He says everything”
:
Arnold Bennett,
Outlook
, April 29, 1922, copied from Yale Joyce Box 17 Folder 327.
“The lack of any conviction”
:
Noyes qtd. in “Rottenness in Literature,”
Sunday Chronicle
, Oct. 29, 1922, copied from Yale Joyce, Box 17 Folder 327.
19. THE BOOKLEGGER
Drake’s
and
thirty-five dollars:
JQ to SB, March 27, 1922, NYPL.
one hundred dollars
:
JQ to Weaver, Oct. 2, 1922, NYPL.
astonishing forty pounds
:
SB to Marion Peter, Sept. 19, 1922,
LSB
, p. 102.
NYSSV would soon discover
:
JQ to SB, March 27, 1922, NYPL.
full-page advertisement
:
JQ to SB, Feb. 4, 1922, qtd. in
MNY
, p. 531.
aggressive campaign
and
“high filth”:
“‘Purity’ War on Authors,”
Weekly Dispatch
, Aug. 13, 1922, Yale Joyce, Box 9 Folder 194.
“She has tackled”
:
JQ to JJ, April 4, 1922, NYPL.
contacted Mitchell Kennerley
:
JQ to SB, March 27 and March 30, 1922, NYPL.
“there wouldn’t be a ghost”
:
Ibid., March 27, 1922.
“about the same amount”
:
Ibid., March 30, 1922, NYPL.
“the jaws of”
:
SB to Marion Peter, Aug. 7, 1922,
LSB
, p. 101.
angry letters from New Yorkers
:
See Joseph Liepold to SB, April 15, 1922, and Sept. 1, 1922, Buffalo, Series XII.
seventeen copies
:
Mary Mowbray-Clark to SB, Jan. 11, 1923, Buffalo, Series XII. She received six in August.
The Sunwise Turn
:
Rainey,
Institutions of Modernism
, pp. 65–69.
“We are rather”
:
Ruth McCall to Shakespeare and Company, May 3, 1922, Buffalo, Series XII.
“We cannot in any way”
:
Mary Mowbray-Clarke to SB, July 22, 1922, Buffalo, Series XII.
There were rumors
:
Ibid., Jan. 11, 1923.
she entrusted ten
:
SB to Marion Peter, Aug. 7, 1922,
LSB
, p. 101.
“like telephone books”
:
Mary Mowbray-Clark to SB, Jan. 11, 1923, Buffalo, Series XII.
customs agents seized two
:
SB to Marion Peter, Sept. 19, 1922, and May 29, 1923,
LSB
, pp. 102, 105.
didn’t speak French
and
lessons:
Michael S. Reynolds,
Hemingway: The Paris Years
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), p. 21; Jeffrey Meyers,
Hemingway: A Biography
(New York: Harper & Row, 1985), p. 59.
rabbit’s foot
:
EH,
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
(New York: Scribner, 2009), p. 91.
going to be a writer
:
Reynolds,
Paris Years
, p. 5.
added up the prices
:
EH, “Living on $1,000 a Year in Paris,”
Toronto Star
, Feb. 4, 1922.
trust fund
:
Reynolds,
Paris Years
, p. 5, and Meyers,
Biography,
p. 58.
maid who cooked
:
Meyers,
Biography,
p. 63.
Cézanne on an empty
:
EH,
Moveable Feast
, pp. 69–70.
abstaining from sex
:
Meyers,
Biography,
p. 66.
letters of introduction
:
SC
, pp. 77–78.
Hemingway walked
:
EH,
Moveable Feast
, pp. 69–70.
a music shop
:
SBLG
, p. 91.
Walking into Shakespeare and Company
:
Hemingway,
Moveable Feast
, pp. 35–36.
talking about the war
:
SC
, p. 78.
“Would you like”
and
barely healed:
SBP, Box 166 Folder 4. Beach quotes Hemingway.
handing out chocolate
and
two hundred pieces:
Meyers,
Biography,
pp. 31–32.
Stein, whom he met in February
:
EH to Grace Hall Hemingway, Feb. 14, 1922,
Letters of Ernest Hemingway
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), vol. 1, p. 328.
met Ezra Pound
:
Meyers,
Biography,
p. 73.
Pound was reading
:
Reynolds,
Paris Years
, p. 26.
Pound sent six
:
EH to Sherwood Anderson, March 9, 1922,
Letters of Ernest Hemingway
, vol. 1, p. 331.
Hemingway met Joyce
and
began drinking:
Meyers,
Biography,
p. 82.
“Deal with him”
:
JJ qtd. in “An American Storyteller,”
Time
,
July 7, 1999.
“Well, here comes James”
:
Meyers,
Biography,
p. 83.
“Joyce has a most”
:
EH to Sherwood Anderson, March 9, 1922,
Letters of Ernest Hemingway,
vol. 1, p. 331.
purchased
Dubliners
:
SBLG
, p. 115; Reynolds,
Paris Years
, p. 12.
Dubliners
taught him
:
Meyers,
Biography
, p. 83.
gave Joyce a copy
:
See Wickser Collection, Buffalo, J69.23.8 TC141 H45 F37 1929.
“Jim Joyce”
:
EH to Arthur Mizener, June 1, 1950, EH, Carlos Baker, and John Updike,
Ernest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917–1961
(New York: Scribner, 1981), p. 696.
His first selections
:
EH,
Moveable Feast
, pp. 35–36.
favorite authors had been
:
Reynolds,
Paris Years
, p. 6.
“Begin over”
:
Gertrude Stein,
Autobiography of Alice
B. Toklas
(New York: Vintage Books, 1961), p. 213.
“No one that I ever”
:
EH,
Moveable Feast
, p. 35.
“He would live”
and
“He defends them”:
EH, “Homage to Ezra,”
This Quarter
1, no. 1 (Spring 1925), pp. 223–4.
like a saint
:
EH,
Moveable Feast
, p. 108.
distrust adjectives
:
Ibid., p. 135.
Hemingway stripped down
:
Wyndham Lewis,
Blasting and Bombardiering
(1937; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), p. 277.
Pound’s left jabs
and
widen his stance:
EH,
Moveable
Feast
, pp. 108–9.
shadowbox between rounds
:
EH to Sherwood Anderson, March 9, 1922,
Letters of Ernest Hemingway
, vol. 1, p. 331.
on the sidewalks of Paris
:
McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together
, p. 163.
a way to compensate
:
Reynolds,
Paris Years,
p. 64.
a boxing match
:
SC
, p. 79; SBP, Box 166 Folder 4.
As a journalist
:
Meyers,
Biography,
pp. 91–100.
short stories in cafés
and
ribbons:
Ibid., pp. 81–82.
his son’s diapers
:
SC
, p. 82.
gambled on horses
:
EH,
Moveable Feast
, pp. 61–62.
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