“I also want all the information you can give, tittletattle, facts etc about Holles Street maternity hospital.” The playful phrase captures Joyce’s appetite for both gossip and factual detail in constructing Ulysses. · Letter to his aunt Josephine Murray, February 1920 Attention Knowledge Writing
“Struggling with the aridities of Ithaca—an astronomico-physico-mechanico-geometrico-chemico sublimation of Bloom and Stephen.” An exuberant description of the intellectual machinery behind Ithaca. · Letter to Claud W. Sykes, 1921 Knowledge Structure Writing
