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Joyce left Ireland ("the old sow that eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...
Because sows will farrow, because piglets will grow up into fat hogs regardless of Government decrees, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been hard put to devise a means of reducing the swine surplus comparable to the plow-under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that...
...Unlike Author Joyce, who called Ireland "the old sow that eats her farrow...
Joyce is as little popular with his brother Irish as with his mother Church: once he called his native country "the old sow that eats her farrow." He has been back to Ireland only twice since he left: in 1904 to open Dublin's first cinema; the last time in 1912. In 1904 he married Nora Barnacle, Galway girl; they have two children; Singer George, Dancer Lucia (who last year wrote a play about a girl who fell in love with the Pont Alexandre-Trois, famed Paris bridge...
...Describe the Farrow method of recalling things that happened to you as a child of 6 months...