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p710 "...his wife [Nora] went on: 'I never get but three words out of him all day these days, with that chop suey he's writing.

'In the morning, "The papers!" At lunch, "What's that?" And the third - Jim, what is the third? I can't remember it. Ah yes, about his bottle of water on the floor, "Don't touch that!" Goodness.' "

p700 "...Joyce proposed to him [Nino Frank] that they translate "Anna Livia Plurabelle" into Italian. 'We must do the job now before it is too late,' he said;'for the moment there is at least one person, myself, who can understand what I am writing. I don't however guarantee that in two or three years I'll still be able to.'...to the sense [meaning] he [Joyce] seemed indifferent and unfaithful..."

p649 "...he [Joyce] dictated a bit of Finnegans Wake to Beckett...in the middle of one such session there was a knock at the door which Beckett didn't hear. Joyce said, 'Come in,' and Beckett wrote it down. Afterwards he read back what he had written and Joyce said, 'What's that "Come in"?' 'Yes, you said that,' said Beckett. Joyce thought for a moment, then said, 'Let it stand.' "