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"Yes! He would create proudly out of the freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable, imperishable."

Chapter 4 done, only one to go!

Chapter 3 done.

Joyce certainly had a, uh, "colorful imagination" when it comes to sin, vice, and Catholic guilt.

"He wanted to meet in the read world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did now know where to seek it or how: but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him... They would be alone, surrounded by darkness and silence: and in that moment of supreme tenderness he would be transfigured."

Chapter 1 done! "Hurroo! Hurroo!"

"How sad and beautiful! He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. The bell! The bell! Farewell! O farewell!"

Introduction done plus a few pages of chapter 1.

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..."