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September 15, 2011
In 1922, James Joyce gets Noble Savage Nod from Nora; Gets Wild with Hemingway.
James Joyce's alpha-wife Nora was the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses.
Joyce said to me he was afraid his writing was too suburban and that maybe he should get around a bit and see the world. He was afraid of some things, lightning and things, but a wonderful man. He was under great discipline--his wife, his work and his bad eyes.
His wife was there and she said, yes, his work was too suburban--'Jim could do with a spot of that lion hunting.' We would go out to drink and Joyce would fall into a fight. He couldn't even see the man so he'd say, 'Deal with him, Hemingway! Deal with him!'
--Ernest Hemingway, as reported by Time July 7, 1999
Posted by JD Hull at September 15, 2011 12:59 AM