Fucking amazing find!

I really like to just pick it up and turn to a page at random and then marvel at what I see. The content within this find is truly extraordinary.

His letters to Nora are by far the best. The passion that oozes from those letters is simply fantastic. It's like a fire burning bright, captivating and enchanting. I have always had a deep love for letters.

Letters have this unique charm that allows us to peek into the hearts and minds of the writers. They hold a piece of history, a moment in time, and a wealth of emotions. Reading his letters to Nora is like taking a journey through their love story, experiencing their joy, their longing, and their deep connection.

It's truly a remarkable discovery that has added a new dimension to my understanding and appreciation of love and communication.

A great collection of letters indeed! Joyce was truly a complex individual. He was funny, with a sense of humor that could light up a room. However, he was also prickly, easily irritated and quick to defend himself. His condescending attitude sometimes rubbed people the wrong way. And yet, despite his emotional immaturity, he was one of the greatest writers in the English language, or perhaps in any language. His works are a testament to his genius.

The filthy letters to Nora are a hoot as well. They offer a glimpse into a side of Joyce that is often overlooked. These letters are filled with passion and desire, and they show a man who was deeply in love with his wife. While some may find the content of these letters shocking, they are an important part of Joyce's legacy. They add another layer to our understanding of this great writer and his relationship with the woman he loved.

Dear Stannie,

I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to you with a rather urgent request. As you know, life can sometimes throw unexpected challenges our way, and I find myself in a bit of a financial bind at the moment. I was wondering if you could possibly send me some money to help me get through this difficult time.

I understand that this might be a bit of an inconvenience for you, but I would be extremely grateful if you could assist me. Your support would mean a lot to me and would help me to sort out my current situation.

Yours everlastingly,

Jim

Joyce's letters to his wife offer a truly remarkable and captivating journey.

These letters provide a unique insight into their relationship, filled with love, longing, and the daily琐事 of their lives.

They are a testament to the depth of their connection and the power of written communication.

Reading through these letters, one can almost feel the emotions that Joyce poured into each word, as if he was right there sharing his thoughts and feelings with his beloved.

It is a real trip to be able to step into their world and experience their love story through these letters.

They are not just a collection of words on paper, but a living, breathing account of a relationship that stood the test of time.

Joyce's letters to his wife are a precious treasure that continues to inspire and touch the hearts of readers even today.

By delving into Joyce's letters, we gain an in-depth understanding not just of James Joyce the genius, but also of James Joyce the human. He was a complex individual, exhibiting a wide range of qualities. He could be funny, with his humorous parody of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. He was also eloquent and confident in his suggestions, such as the idea of using three colour pencils to categorize words in Finnegans Wake based on their understandability.

Joyce was caring, but also had his moments of anger and jealousy. He was poor, yet proud. And to many, he was perverse, especially when it came to his dirty love letters to Nora. These letters were not only scandalous by the standards of the early 20th century media but by almost any standard. However, Joyce himself put it well when he said: “Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it myself.”

The letters also contain many clever little formulations and verbal plays. My personal favourites are \\"Ibsen ibself\\" and \\"Bloomitis\\". I think I've suffered from the latter after my first attempt at reading Ulysses. Overall, Joyce's letters offer a fascinating glimpse into the mind and life of this remarkable writer.

This gentle selection of James Joyce's letters offers a profound answer to the question of "how could anyone write a book as complex as Ulysses?".

These letters are like dispatches from a man existing on the margins of society. He was constantly begging for scraps and had to move every couple of months to evade creditors.

More so than the excellent biography by Richard Ellmann, these letters vividly paint a detailed portrait of an artist. Joyce sacrificed all modern comforts and any semblance of stability, all to give himself the precious space to transcribe his unique vision onto paper.

The fact that Joyce fought for nine long years to get his first book, Dubliners, published is widely known. However, as one reads letter after letter, argument after argument, all laid out over hundreds of pages, it becomes abundantly clear that this is a man, much like Anthony in the desert, with no choice but a total dedication to the crucible of his art.

Inspiring and ultimately tragic, the Selected Letters of James Joyce provides the best glimpse for those interested in the process that Joyce himself described so eloquently as "When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets".

Moreover, one also gains a real understanding of just how much money James Joyce borrowed from his brother, Stanislaus.

That antique procedure of letter writing was truly a laborious affair.

One would sit at the desk, search for writing paper, unscrew the precious fountain pen, locate blotting paper and a bottle of ink (blue, black or green?). Then, compose a message, be it short or long, serious or ludicrous, huffy or languorous, to a sweetheart, landlord, grandmama or the man who found the dog. Fold the letter, open multiple drawers to find an envelope, cadge a stamp from a sister, write the address carefully (ensuring the 3 doesn't look like an 8), stuff the envelope, lick the glue on the flap, bash it down for security, lick the stamp (ugh, the taste!), affix the stamp with the correct orientation (upside down is a punishable offense), put on a hat and coat, swap slippers for smart boots and walk down the road to the postbox to deposit the creation.

All this was terminated by the internet, first with email and then texting. Maybe some octogenarians still write letters. Once upon a time, everyone did it. It was the precursor to the telephone.

The strange thing is that some people kept others' letters forever. Boxes and bags of them were found after their owners passed away, and the discoverers also kept them. If written by a famous person, they often ended up in important books.

In James Joyce's selected letters, we find a series he sent to Nora Barnacle in 1909. They are remarkable, but it would have been better to have Nora's letters too. Maybe Joyce didn't keep hers as she did his, or the editor excluded them.

Jim and Nora met in 1904, had a son in 1905 and a daughter in 1907. Here, a young father writes to his young wife. Some of the letters are quite passionate, while others are rather obscene.

Eight letters with porny passages were censored until 1975. Reading Joyce's letters is not a great experience. He was a genius but also a pain in the neck and often a dreary creep.

Still, this gives us a close look at his life. In the future, we'll know less about great writers as their texts and emails won't be published. Maybe that's a good thing.

My fat young brother, Leo Smith, is truly an idler. I've already vetted the plan, so we can start right away. However, when he was told that he had an odd nickname, he was incredulous.

He countered, "No odder than Benjamin Johnson or even Shelly Smith." We all agreed with his point. But still, my brother remains an idler. Trust me on this.

Leo's idleness is quite evident in his daily life. He seems to have no motivation to do anything productive. While we are all eager to get started on the plan, he just lounges around.

Even though he may have a point about the odd nicknames, it doesn't change the fact that he is an idler. We hope that one day he will realize the importance of being active and start contributing positively.

Until then, we will just have to deal with his idleness and try to encourage him to be more productive.