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'The epiphany did not mean for Joyce the manifestation of godhead, the showing forth of Christ to the Magi; the epiphany was the sudden 'revelation of the whatness of a thing,' the moment in which 'the soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.' The artist, he felt, was charged with such revelations, and must look for them not among gods but among men, in casual, unostentatious, even unpleasant moments.'
— May 06, 2026 03:56AM
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'A man of small virtue, inclined to alcoholism,' he described himself to a doctor; to Louis Gillet, the French Academician who wished to exalt him, he said, 'Don't make a hero out of me, I'm only a simple middle-class man.' He surrounded himself with mostly unknowns: waiters, tailors, fruitsellers, concierges. This assemblage was as inevitable for Joyce's temperament as marquises and marchionesses were for Proust's.'
— Apr 30, 2026 12:50PM
