set gDates = [[], [0, "Times Literary Supplement, June 18, 1914", "Times Literary Supplement, March 1, 1917", 0, "The Times, Jan 25, 1941", 0, "Times Literary Supplement, May 6, 1939"]]
set gName = getat(["Joyce"],1)
@[]#A DULL DAY IN DUBLIN#A POOR LIKENESS OF THE ARTIST##THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JAMES JOYCE##MR JOYCE EXPRESSES HIMSELF
Joyce met his wife Nora Barnacle, a barmaid, by chance and eloped with her to Zurich and then Trieste, where he taught English. Their first formal date was on June 16, 1904 - the day on which Ulysses is set. They had two children#Joyce received almost no money from his writing in his lifetime, surviving largely on the kindness of patrons#Although he grew up during the key years of Irish nationalism, Joyce took no actual part in the freedom movement#Joyce spoke a number of languages, and often uses foreign words in his books, sometimes making translingual puns#Joyce renounced Catholicism as a young man, but always kept a sacred view of life alongside the bawdiness he is better known for#Joyce believed in epiphanies - everyday experiences that could lead on to some deeper, greater truth#Joyce used to provoke strangers into fights in Paris bars, looking to the tough young Hemingway for protection. "Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him," as he is said to have remarked on one occasion
