James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Attracts a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926)

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James Joyce had a ter­ri­ble time along with his eyes. When he was six years outdated he obtained his first set of eye­glass­es, and, when he was 25, he got here down along with his first case of iri­tis, a really painful and poten­tial­ly blind­ing inflam­ma­tion of the col­ored a part of the attention, the…

James Joyce Picked Drunken Fights, Then Hid Behind Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hem­ing­manner appeared to feud with many of the promi­nent male artists of his time, from Wal­lace Stevens and T.S. Eliot to F. Scott Fitzger­ald. He had a “very unusual rela­tion­ship” with Orson Welles—the 2 got here to blows at the very least as soon as—and he report­ed­ly slapped Max East­man within the face with…