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Joyce's alleged "madness" (was: W.Miale re Waugh)]
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Reckless temerity prods me into venturing an answer to Walter's whimsical
question, now happily disambiguated (to use the current disgusting jargon). Is
it not possible that Joyce suffered from some sort of literary
compulsive-obsessive disorder, in the parlance of our times? Perhaps the Freudian barflies
would reject any such suggestion.
To repeat my mother's diagnosis of sanity, viz, a sense of humour sufficient
to allow one to laugh at oneself, it seems to me that this is where VN, the
happy, healthy, heterosexual, scores well above most of his contemporaries,
and pre-contemporaries. I can't detect any very great sense of humour in
Joyce, but perhaps, as usual, I'm missing something.
Charles
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question, now happily disambiguated (to use the current disgusting jargon). Is
it not possible that Joyce suffered from some sort of literary
compulsive-obsessive disorder, in the parlance of our times? Perhaps the Freudian barflies
would reject any such suggestion.
To repeat my mother's diagnosis of sanity, viz, a sense of humour sufficient
to allow one to laugh at oneself, it seems to me that this is where VN, the
happy, healthy, heterosexual, scores well above most of his contemporaries,
and pre-contemporaries. I can't detect any very great sense of humour in
Joyce, but perhaps, as usual, I'm missing something.
Charles
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