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“It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality.”

Joyce argues that imaginative perception can reveal realities conventional thinking overlooks. · Lecture, James Clarence Mangan, 1902

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James Joyce

2 February 1882–13 January 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, then a prosperous southern suburb of Dublin, and died on 13 January 1941 in Zürich, Switzerland. He is most often called a novelist, and rightly so: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake…

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