New Yorker Review of new Joyce Biography made me start to re-read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The title of the review is Silence, Exile, Punning. Of course, this is straight from the Portrait:
"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning."
June 16, 1904 - According to the review, Bloomsday celebrates a hand inside Joyce's trousers.
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