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--- Buffalo Bill shoots to kill,
Never missed nor he never will.
Ulysses p 608
Never missed nor he never will.
Ulysses p 608
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Re: Did James Joyce choose freak words or not?
Thu, September 10, 2009 - 5:40 PMJoyce, in his streamofconciousnesswriting probably wrote as he thought, for the most part without edits. If he chose to use a freak word, it may or may not have been with malice aforethought. I suspect Kerouac was the same way. Ginsburg, on the other hand I believe, thought everything out before he committed it to paper.
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Re: Did James Joyce choose freak words or not?
Thu, September 10, 2009 - 6:50 PMJoyce also wrote a lot of speech he heard around him and wrote it verbatim, or at least that's what I read in Nora Barnacle's biography. In Paris it was a very social household and apparently Nora never stopped talking, and Joyce would lie on the bed or the settee and write and often copy down what he was hearing. She had a very distinctive speech with a lot of galway colloquialisms. So some of it was stream of consciousness stuff but also just overheard dialogue that got mixed up in there too. -
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Re: Did James Joyce choose freak words or not?
Fri, September 18, 2009 - 7:10 PMThank you I reread the section. The character who quoted the Buffalo Bill diddy was a sailor-- his grammar was I done did it, I seen it, I done it...
After reading your post I reread a chapter of Ulysses. His character Mr. Bloom uses idioms common to what I heard in conversation growing up. He did write in some dialogue I think like you said as he had heard it said not created.
He also likes to explain science in common language... his bit on water is interesting. I would like him to be my math and science teacher!
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