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Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

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Before Joyce
For a novel to make it as art
The end had to be at the start.
This is still largely so
'cause we think that we know
And don't want to know
Why it is we don't want to know.

Douglas Scotney

Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Michael Walker 22 November 2018

Many novels I have read start with a flashback to the past, then fast forward back to the present. The only novel by James Joyce which I know is 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'. Must read 'Ulysses' sometime.

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Danny Draper 03 June 2012

A twisting contradiction dealing with Joyce and the human condition, succinct and accurate.

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