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Tony Hynes David,

You are very welcome. Thank you for taking me through your process on your most important projects. I am humbled by the time and effort you put in to giving readers the truest vision of your words on the "Fine Art Of Grace" and look forward to reading it. My mother went to Columbia, and I know how it feels to have writers block. I'm already imagining myself as Arthur. As for Bloomsday, reading translations of Homer's Odyssey was something I was assigned to do in college. It took me weeks to grasp, and required my full focus. I only read snippets of it. You should be very proud of yourself for one: being able to complete three different translations of Homer's Odyssey. That is a feat in and of itself. Reading Ulysses on top of it, and then writing from the perspective of both pieces to write Bloomsday properly, is one of the hardest tasks I could imagine doing. To do this work. To be a novelist, you have to have a fire, a passion, to keep going even when it seems like you will never reach the finish line (and when you realize that there is no finish line). As I roll out my own story, I will keep looking back at your message to remind me what it takes to succeed.

Thank you
And Best,
Tony


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