James Joyce

The much-trumpeted progress of this century consists largely of a heap of machines the very purpose of which is to gather in haste and fury the scattered elements of utility and knowledge and to redistribute them to each member of the collectivity who is in a position to pay a slight tax.”

• Sir,... James Joyce wrote in a university submission in Padua in 1912, when asked to write about the progress made by mankind since the Renaissance
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A man of genius makes no mistakes,

• wrote James Joyce in Ulysses, a novel both unrivalled and unreadable — and based on the same Homeric legend as The Odyssey, one of the year’s most watched films
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Class of Elements Clongowes Wood College Sallins County Kildare Ireland Europe The World The Universe.”

• In a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce’s alter ego Stephen Dedalus, a child growing up at the height of the empire, writes his address in his copybook
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