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Subject: Query re Joyce's alleged "madness" (was: W.Miale re Waugh)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:13:26 -0500
From: Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References: <cff.9c94b01.3308e384@aol.com>

There has been some understandable and almost comically persistent
confusion about my whimsical and unintentionally ambiguous question
in the email below. I did not doubt that Waugh made the outrageous
but troubling (or so I found) remark. I was raising the question, or
trying to raise the question, whether there might be some truth to
it. (The original subject heading was "Dubious speculation"--not "re
Waugh".) Perhaps I should have taken the query instead to a Freudian
email list; or to an educated barfly list.

WM



>>Subject: Curious speculation
>>
>>Charles wrote: "....I once saw Evelyn Waugh remark in an interview that
>>James Joyce spent his life slowly going completely mad, and that you can
>>see this quite clearly in his writing; ie Finnegans Wake is the work of
>>a madman, nearing his end."
>>
>>Could this be true??
>>
>>Walter Miale
>

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