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I first saw James Joyce in a small room of the old Pleyel establishment on the lower slope of Montmartre. A group, including Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway, had gathered there to hear George Antheil’s arrangement of his Ballet Mécanique for the player piano. Nearly everyone was standing, for there were very few chairs, but Joyce, whom I recognised at once from the photographs which had appeared in various newspapers and magazines, had placed one of the small folding seats near the only window and was sitting with his face turned towards the light. His attitude showed that he was listening intently and was trying to isolate himself from the slight commotion of the crowd.
Extracted from ‘Farthest North: a Study of James Joyce’, Bookman (New York) 75 (May 1932) 156–7, 159–60.
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Paul, E. (1990). A Study of James Joyce. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) James Joyce. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09422-6_41
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