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These are quotations of my own language that were deleted before publication.

1. "The whole family was bickering. Looking back at this time in June, Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver that his decision to take up domicile in England had brought only misery into the lives of Nora and Lucia."

 
 
2. "When he [Stuart Gilbert] spoke about her [Lucia's] insomnia, he thought it likely that she was posing—in his words 'profess[ing]' sleeplessness. When he spoke about her nervousness, he used the same language—she was once again 'profess[ing] anxiety."
 
3. "In a few days, on 29 May, her own brother would further betray her..."
 
4. "Despite Joyce's optimistic projection of an abundant world in wait for Stephen Dedalus, the encounter of Dionysos when a person is alone is different from worshiping him en masse, and it is far more dangerous. She is "just a poor child who tried to do too much, to understand too much," Joyce decided in 1934, as if he had finally understood that the burden of creative license could become too great for a fragile, individual will to bear. The daemonic was both his daughter's heritage and her undoing."