Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Sylvia Beach & James Joyce



Shakespeare & Company–the legendary Parisian English-language bookstore–then owned by Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier.

The best sound byte description of Ms. Beach:
Gertrude Stein without wealth and ego.

Ms. Monnier's ego was even smaller.



In 1921, James Joyce bemoaned his inability to get Ulysses published in the United States.
Sylvia invested blood, sweat, & tears, plus many dollars to get the book published in the USA
James Joyce got all the dividends of fame & infamy.



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