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Word: symphorosa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swarms of foreign tourists who annually pay homage to the master. Many Irish natives remain unimpressed. Jerry Davis, a local artist who played the role of Bloom on Bloomsday, says of Joyce: "He was an impudent whacker. I don't really want to be identified with him." Symphorosa Daybell, a student at Trinity College with a name that could have appeared in Finnegans Wake, calls his work "bloody rubbish. It's just dressing the whole thing up. I tried reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but couldn't make head or tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Happy Birthyear | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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