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It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone that today’s OF spotlight falls, big and bright, on James Joyce, whose 130th birthday we celebrate today…
T.S. Eliot may have been wrong about April, but he was onto something about JJ: Here is to the man who according to T.S. Eliot singlehandedly killed off the 19th Century!
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” ― James Joyce
Photo: Berenice Abbott, 1926

It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone that today’s OF spotlight falls, big and bright, on James Joyce, whose 130th birthday we celebrate today…

T.S. Eliot may have been wrong about April, but he was onto something about JJ: Here is to the man who according to T.S. Eliot singlehandedly killed off the 19th Century!

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” ― James Joyce

Photo: Berenice Abbott, 1926

Source: i12bent

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