Tuesday 5 July 2011

Silence, Exile, and Cunning

Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning.
~ SD,  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The more I read chapter five of Portrait the more I want to recommend that you take a look at it. It's very instructive in helping to understand Ulysses.

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