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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19970614
Author:Boyd Tonkin

In the early 18th century, Jonathan Swift invented the Little Endians and Big Endians, who went to war over the best way to crack open a boiled egg. Nearly three centuries later, James Joyce - another great Dublin writer - still cooks up quarrels over minute details that look just as crazy to outsiders. Next week, to coincide with "Bloomsday" in the 75th anniversary year of the novel's publication, Picador will publish a new and controversial "reader's edition" of Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses. Already the scholarly insults are flying "like a shot off a shovel" (as Ulysses puts it). In the ...

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