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| − | * '''Come, smooth of my slate ....:''' this long footnote is entitled '''THE LETTER''' in Joyce's drafts. In this letter, Issy "describes her youthful, manic, self-centred, flirtatious exuberance; her thoughts of suicide; her relationships with boys and her father; and her thwarted attempts to write and pass herself off as intelligent." (Luca Crispi, ''How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 2007), p. 232) | + | * '''Come, smooth of my slate ....:''' this long footnote is entitled '''THE LETTER''' in Joyce's drafts. In this letter, Issy "describes her youthful, manic, self-centred, flirtatious exuberance; her thoughts of suicide; her relationships with boys and her father; and her thwarted attempts to write and pass herself off as intelligent." (Luca Crispi, ''How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake'' (Madison, Wisconsin, 2007), p. 232) → compare this with the correspondence and relationships between Stella & Vanessa and Jonathan Swift |
* '''slate:''' a writing slate, like the ones pupils would have used in school in olden times | * '''slate:''' a writing slate, like the ones pupils would have used in school in olden times | ||
Latest revision as of 06:31, 22 October 2011
- Come, smooth of my slate ....: this long footnote is entitled THE LETTER in Joyce's drafts. In this letter, Issy "describes her youthful, manic, self-centred, flirtatious exuberance; her thoughts of suicide; her relationships with boys and her father; and her thwarted attempts to write and pass herself off as intelligent." (Luca Crispi, How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake (Madison, Wisconsin, 2007), p. 232) → compare this with the correspondence and relationships between Stella & Vanessa and Jonathan Swift
- slate: a writing slate, like the ones pupils would have used in school in olden times
