James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

"Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes."
OVID, Metamorphoses, VIII, 18.

Chapter I

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. . . .


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April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

THE END

Dublin, 1904.
Trieste, 1914.