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I Have Submitted My Dissertation

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Joyce by Brancusi

and look at this prepronominal funferal, engraved and retouched and edgewiped and puddenpadded, very like a whale's egg farced with pemmican, as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a night till his noddle sink or swim by that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia: all those red raddled obeli cayennepeppercast over the text, calling unnecessary attention to errors, omissions, repetitions and misalignments

(Genesis 1:31; Portrait of James Joyce by Constantin Brancusi from Three Fragments from Work in Progress, The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1929; Finnegans Wake III:120:9-16).