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Shloss' Deletions | The Notebook Observations
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"She sideslipped out by a gap in the Devil's glen while Sally her nurse was sound asleep."
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("three years are but are but a moment in the life of an ocean") and "remounds the salty water full of weeds and smiling happily."
| | James Joyce to Lucia Joyce, n.d. [August] 1935. Letters I, 377-378. |
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"The instant I touched her hand...I knew some change had set in,"
| | James Joyce to Constantine Curren, 31 July 1935, Letters I, 378. |
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"I have to pay the following bills immediately if not sooner."
| | James Joyce to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 9 June 1936, Unpublished letter, RE Papers. |
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"Mr. Joyce did not like to leave Paris as he was always most punctilious about his visits to his daughter. He always went out directly after lunch every Sunday afternoon. I never accompanied him," she said, "but from his description of what went on I could form a vivid and very tragic picture."
| | Helen Fleischman Joyce, "A Portrait of the Artist by His Daughter-in-Law," HRC. |
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"He would wait for her in the little parlor of the sanitarium. From my knowledge of French salons...I can picture the scene. The small dark, overcrowded salon, the thin, dark-haired girl and the slender man with the thick glasses. She would greet him as a rule with pleasure. He would always bring her some gift, candy or fruit or sometimes a present of some sort, once a wristwatch, I remember. They would talk for awhile. She would ask about her mother and about Giorgio and me and Stephen. Then he or she would sit down at the piano and play and they would both sing. Sometimes they would dance together, and this to me is a terrible and fantastic picture. Babbo would tell us that they would dance with wild abandon together. Then would come the time when he had to go and a nurse would come to lead Lucia away. Babbo would return in the taxi, which he had kept waiting...in a state of complete exhaustion, near collapse. At dinner that evening at Fouquets he would tell us of the visit, eating almost nothing and drinking his usual succession of bottles of Swiss wine."
| | Helen Fleischman Joyce, "A Portrait of the Artist by His Daughter-in-Law," HRC. |
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"It is rather curious that the two men in whom poor Lucia tried to see whatever she or any other woman or girl is looking for"
| | James Joyce to Helen Fleischman Joyce, 6 April 1938, Letters III, 419. |
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