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Anand Bose, Glyph Agog In 7 Ecclesia Street, Time: 8 AM

On James Joyce

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From: Anand Bose   To: Ellopos
Date:  Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:34:50 -0000

Dear James Joyce, the time which you have lived and the time, I live is different. You did share the epic of being ordinary and fantastic through the ink of immortality. I could never finish reading you. If I did it would do justice for a silly exam. If I did injustice in taking the imagination of your youth and making myself a character in it, it's with the spirit of fondest admiration and celebration. " You are smiling: I see it" That's the most happiest gift that you could give as a token. The sensations of touch, taste, smell and sight are colours of ink, with which you breathed the life of making the extraordinary in the mortal, human, humane and epic. The rhythm of your prose is 'lyric' on paper. In you the artist has fulfilled the mortality of Helen to be epic of the humane...  Read Complete

Reference: James Joyce, A portrait of the artist as a young man

Cf. Goethe on Tragedy (in German) | Aristotle Anthology | Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet | Plato, Whom are we talking to? | Kierkegaard, My work as an author | Emerson, Self-knowledge | Gibson - McRury, Discovering one's face | Emerson, We differ in art, not in wisdom