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"Aside from its sad narcissism, Helen's story offers a glimpse of a family dealing with the erotic life of a child. It is, in fact, hard to imagine that the Joyces would not have dissected the lives of Helen and Giorgio in the way that she imagines. The text also shows us a young woman who is actively aware of inter-generation sexual currents---she imagines herself as the object of Joyce's desire--while she pictures her husband as 'pursuing lazily nothing and no one in particular'"
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If Joyce's art followed life, then the life of his son followed art. "Do as I write, not as I do." Ulysses was not only a fact in Giorgio's life; it was a script. He had found a precursor in Blazes Boylan, even if the parent who had created the jaunty adulterer was scandalized by his behavior. He had "vicereversed" his father's use of Lillian Wallace as one of the models for Molly Bloom"
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