James Joyce’s Notebook

A page from one of James Joyce’s notebooks, which looks like some sort of ledger:

From the post at Biblioklept:

This page is from a notebook that contains some of Joyce’s preparatory notes for Ulysses—there are notes for characters “Stephen,” “Simon,” “Leopold,” etc. as well as lists “Books,” “Recipes” and general ideas “Theosophy”. This particular page, “Rhetoric,” seems to be part of the material that went into the “Aeolus” chapter of Ulysses, which plays with the windiness of rhetorical figures. From the National Library of Ireland, via UbuWeb.

Read more at  “Rhetoric” — A Page from James Joyce’s Notebooks | biblioklept.

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