J'yce

"My mind is of a type superior to and more civilized than any I have met up to the present."
--25 year old James Joyce confiding in his brother Stanislaus.

Richard Ellmann goes on to say "an empty wallet did not diminish this conviction. When Max Eastman asked him why he was writing Finnegans Wake in the way he was, Joyce replied with a brag intended for a smile, 'To keep the critics busy for three hundred years.' The first hundred of these three hundred years appears to have weathered quite well..."
--Four Dubliners