James Joyce, n.All

James Joyce is a clumsy olla putrida. Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.

James Joyce was terrified of dogs ever since a childhood dog attack.

James Joyce is a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could (in contrast to Beckett, who an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as he can).

James Joyce was said to have been able to speak 17 languages (but it was probably less than that)

James Joyce created a 100-letter word for thunder and lightning: Bababadalgharaghtaka-mminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

James Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

James Joyce is a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could (in contrast to Beckett, who is an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as he can).

James Joyce thinks he is a great hero because he prints all the dirty little words.

James Joyce had poor vision so he wore an eye patch and did his writing on large white sheets of paper using only red crayon.

James Joyce is a true artist from his head to his crotch.

James Joyce spoke exclusively Italian at home with his family

James Joyce was good friends with Ernest Hemingway whom he often leaned on to finish the fights he'd start at bars.

James Joyce opened the first cinema in Ireland.

James Joyce is a diseased mind and soul so black that he would even obscure the darkness of hell.

James Joyce's writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.