NABOKV-L post 0011172, Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:39:02 -0800

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From: "willtato" <willtato@pacbell.net>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gte.net>; "D. Barton Johnson"
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:58 PM
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Joyce


> this quote comes to mind in this context
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> "It's like wanting to meet the goose because you like the pate." - Dan
> Pinck, on the dismay at meeting a writer whose work one admires.
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> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
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> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:27 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Joyce
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>> Some readers are turned off by Joyce's "erotic" letters to Nora - and
>> in parallel by Bloom's musings; and this response is probably evidence
>> of careful, empathic reading. The apparently "intimate" letters are
>> surprisingly distancing, concerned with Nora's physiological functions
>> and Jim's infantile needs. Apparently, only the genius was to have
>> feelings of interest. Great book; difficult author.
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>> -Sandy Drescher
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