Ah yes but what happened to Nora's side of the correspondence?(Joyce news)

[Khephra]

Ah yes - but what ever happened to Nora's side of the correspondence?

Brenda Maddox
Friday July 9, 2004
The Guardian

Admiration for Nora Barnacle Joyce can only increase after yesterday.

Nora was not merely the muse but the mentor for the obscene letter Joyce wrote to her on December 1 1909. It was she who initiated the explicit erotic correspondence they exchanged when separated in 1909. His December 1 letter comes in the notorious sequence known in Joycean scholarly parlance as "the dirty letters".

Joyce reminds Nora -"my strange-eyed whore" - that she always led the way.

She had slid her hand inside his trousers on their first date in Dublin on June 16 1904. When they ran away to Austria a few months later, it was she who uttered the first obscene word when they made love.

After five years, when he left her in Trieste while he returned to Dublin, she began the determinedly pornographic letters intended to keep him away from prostitutes when "the old fever of love" struck.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1257291,00.html

I hope this doesn't count as a sex thread.

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1. I love Joyce...

...and Nora. I had a seminar on Joyce and Yeats when I was in college, that I'll never forget. Thanks for posting this.

[Khephra]

2. You're welcome!

:-)

[NashVegas]

3. "Nora"

I saw the movie recently, not great, but quite interesting. It made me decide to give Ulysses yet another try, this time with some determination.