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TRUE TO FORM, A NEW EDITION OF JAMES JOYCE'S `ULYSSES' BRINGS A NEW ROUND OF CONTROVERSY.(What's Happening)
From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19970627
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Even James Joyce didn't always know the precise words he intended to use in ``Ulysses,'' his masterpiece and a book that was as challenging in the writing as it is in the reading.
The first edition of ``Ulysses,'' published in 1922, was a palimpsest of a palimpsest, cobbled together from original drafts, addendums, piecemeal revisions and semilegible scribbled notes. It was printed, disastrously, by a French company in Dijon whose employees did not speak English.
``I am extremely irritated by all those printer's errors,'' Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver. ...
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