James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1882
CityRathgar, Ireland
CountryIreland
heart calm my-heart
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
wind giving lease
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
adventure path unseen
The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
time
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
return theory
Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.
asks ifs
if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.
As you are now so once were we.
passing-away flesh spirit
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
regret clouds leaving
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
sorrow
Every bond is a bond to sorrow.
art spirit
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
zero space degrees
Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.
long thanks
Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.
running names finnegans-wake
In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!