Word: ellman
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...Richard Ellman, a biographer of James Joyce, once wrote of the enigmatic Irishman, “He does not wish to conquer us, but have us conquer him. There are, in other words, no invitations, but the door is ajar.” Indeed, upon taking a seat for Boston’s Huntington Theatre’s production of James Joyce’s The Dead, one feels as though one has just stepped through an open door into a world where entire families really do assemble for the holidays, really do sing and really do celebrate the dead...