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...fled Ireland into self-imposed exile late in 1904, taking with him Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who was working as a hotel chambermaid in Dublin when Joyce met her earlier that year. (On hearing that his son had run off with a girl named Barnacle, John Joyce remarked, playing on her last name, "She'll never leave him." And, proving puns can be prophetic, she never...
...Nora and then their two children moved among and around European cities--Pola, Trieste, Zurich, Rome, Paris--Joyce found clerical and teaching jobs that provided subsistence to his family and his writing. His first published book of fiction, Dubliners (1914), contained 15 stories short on conventional plots but long on evocative atmosphere and language. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) provided a remarkably objective and linguistically complex account of Stephen Dedalus, i.e. James Joyce, from his birth to his decision to leave Dublin in pursuit...
Ulysses is the account of one day in Dublin--June 16, 1904, Joyce's private tribute to Nora, since that was the date on which they first went out together. The book follows the movements of not only Stephen and Bloom but also hundreds of other Dubliners as they walk the streets, meet and talk, then talk some more in restaurants and pubs. All this activity seems random, a record of urban happenstance...
...taken by my niece [Nora], four yearsold, that five days later a beanie baby arrived inthe mail for [her]," Adams says. "He had it in hismind that this was something he wanted to do. [Hehas] a rich mind of capability and of character...
...prefers a less caloric meal, "Healthy Choice of course," she says. Lean Cuisine, another brand for the health-conscious consumer, has earned the praise of certain Harvard students. "I don't really eat [frozen dinners], but on occasion I eat Lean Cuisine TM Angel Hair Pasta Primavera," confides Nora H. Zimmett...