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I saw [Joyce] from time to time. Unfortunately I have little of interest to report, since we established no intimacy, and I soon limited myself to a formal visit of respect on reaching and before leaving Paris. Mr Joyce struck me as a man of great personal dignity with a fine ascetic face, but thrown back on himself by partial or complete blindness. He was very much the vogue at the time, and surrounded by followers who, I thought, seemed rather jealous of each other. On the other hand one must recognise their devotion in reading to or otherwise amusing their incapacitated hero.
Life for Life’s Sake: A Book of Reminiscences (New York: Viking Press, 1941) pp. 324–5. Editor’s title.
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Aldington wrote about the ‘deplorable’ influence of Ulysses in his review, ‘Mr James Joyce’s Ulysses’, English Review (London), 32 (April 1921) 333–41.
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Aldington, R. (1990). We Established No Intimacy. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) James Joyce. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09422-6_39
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