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Paris 1920-1922
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ABSTRACT
Mr Pound wrote to me so urgently from Sermione (lake o f Garda), that in spite o f my dread o f thunderstorms and detesta-ation o f travelling, I went there bringing my son with me to act as lightning conductor.’ Joyce was writing to Miss Weaver explain ing how he reached Paris in July 1920. In the meantime Ezra Pound had described his impressions in a letter to John Quinn some weeks previously:
Joyce-pleasing; after the first shell of cantankerous Irishman, I got the impression that the real man is the author of Chamber Music, the sensitive. The rest is the genius; the registration of realities on the temperament, the delicate temperament of the early poems. A concentration and absorption passing Yeats’—Yeats has never taken on anything requiring the conden sation of Ulysses.