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Submitted to Contest #183
It was 1997 and I’d just returned to Sydney from the James Joyce Summer School in Dublin. I had been inspired by the Irish culture and their use of language although reading Joyce’s works in preparation for the week of study and lectures did prove difficult. My first encounter with James Joyce was going to see Ulysses at the local cinema in my hometown of Stratford, New Zealand, back in 1968 where the audience was gender segregated. I wasn’t yet eighteen but managed to get in. Because of the furore about the book, many, including me, want...
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