Arruginated: James Joyce’s Errors
By Colm Tóibín
Annotations to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
by Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner.
Ulysses is haunted by the story of its own composition. As Joyce famously put it, ‘I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of ensuring one’s immortality.’ The annotators point out, however, that it is ‘very likely that Joyce never said this’.
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