James Joyce’s Democracy

 

Click here to read “James Joyce’s Democracy” by Frank Delaney’s blog, The Writer’s Life on June 18, 2012.

Saturday, 16 June 2012, dawned sunny and clear. There you have a sentence that Joyce might have written in the “namby-pamby marmalady jammy drawersy” Nausicaa chapter of Ulysses. Nevertheless, that’s what it was like on Delancey Place, Philadelphia, where the brotherly love overflowed and cascaded down the tall columns of the monumental, long-dead author.