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[–]Edvin[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I know Joyce wrote Portrait of an Artist, it is referenced in ghost writer which led me to read it, it's why I mentioned it. I'll definitely check out Goodbye Columbus, thanks for the recommendation!

Edit: autocorrect did me dirty

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just factoids — In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Stephen often thinks of a line from W.B. Yeats' poem Fergus: "the white breast of the dim sea." So, it is a quote within a quote.

Roth is 87 now.