Holiday music: John Cage’s Roaratorio, Writing For The Second Time Through Finnegans Wake and Laughtears.
A discography.
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Conor Cruise O’Brien dead at 91 (Irish Times & NYT).
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Acquired: Roland McHugh’s Annotations, Anthony Burgess’s Re Joyce, Dettmar’s The Illicit Joyce.
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Happy holidays!
This was Joyce’s favorite Irish whisky [sic]: he explained why to Gilbert Seldes: ‘All Irish whiskies use the water of the Liffey; all but one filter it, but John Jameson’s uses it mud and all. That gives it its special quality.’ And the next day, which happened to be Easter, a bottle of John Jameson’s arrived with a card inscribed, ‘James Joyce presents Anna Livia’s fireheaded son.’ (Ellman 604)
