ABSTRACT
You ask again if I look upon writing as an escape from reality; in no sense of the word does it seem to me to be escape from reality; I should rather say that it is an attempt to approach and penetrate reality. This I think is certainly true of such a book as Ulysses: the effort to apprehend and to make live again a moment in lost time is so tremendous that some of us feel that Joyce really did succeed, at least in places, in penetrating reality and in so doing, creating what is almost another dimension of reality….
