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What is curious to me is the universal appeal of Joyce despite his utter Irishness, more particularly in places like Kashmir, where for the most part England subsumed Ireland, Wales, Scotland and was one entity. You know which one that was, РІР‚СљdonРІР‚в„ўt you knowРІР‚Сњ, to borrow a parodied Britishism from Joyce.

To me when I saw it first, the comparative drabness of Dublin to London was due to the obvious fact that one was glistening from the fat of colonised lands. All happening with the total evocation of Sandymount and Wicklow and Grafton Street, Dublin in general, and itРІР‚в„ўs usually impecunious endearing natives. YРІР‚в„ўall know what I mean, the idiom and language, the earthiness, the ominous awareness of the Catholic Church in every breath, the simultaneous derision and awe for the oppressive English. Having been educated by Irish nuns and having visited and stayed in Ireland at least a couple of times, albeit for a month and a half in all, finally hearing the the Irishness of Joyce is amazing. IРІР‚в„ўm making my way currently through the Odyssey of Ulysses, courtesy James Joyce. These past frightful days I have listened to Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Paulo Coelho etc.

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It was just as well that quite a few were off the bestseller lists but on free audiobooks online, which I have since freely plundered.

Many books I had picked when green and abandoned then as too cynical now beckoned, especially at this ripened end of my life. With no light at the end of the tunnel created by the triple viruses of corona, Trumpism and racism, I decided to pursue my go-to escape routes in life РІР‚вЂњ painting and reading.

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