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Declaration of David Olson in Support of 32 Memorandum in Opposition, filed byCarol Loeb Shloss. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A (Part 1)# 2 Exhibit A (Part 2)# 3 Exhibit A (Part 3)# 4 Exhibit A (Part 4)# 5 Exhibit B (Part 1)# 6 Exhibit B (Part 2)# 7 Exhibit B (Part 3)# 8 Exhibit B (Part 4)# 9 Exhibit B (Part 5)# 10 Exhibit B (Part 6)# 11 Exhibit B (Part 7)# 12 Exhibit C)(Related document(s) 32 ) (Falzone, Anthony) (Filed on 12/15/2006)

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"This kissingwold's full of killing fellows."
(FW 248.24)

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Doc. 39 Att. 9

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Alec "was certainly never in love with Lucia," she wrote to Richard Ellmann in 1959. He was "still in love with Hazel Guggenheim, with whom he had had an affair for about three years. I believe she had left him and returned to London, or started another one of her numerous affairs or marriages."
Helen Fleischman Joyce. Notes to Richard Ellmann re mistakes in his biography of James Joyce, RE Papers.

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but apart from that they are also a family document of great value to me and I regard their eventual loss in the same light as I should regard the loss of one of my onw mss, which had cost me months of labor."
James Joyce to Holroyd-Reece, 4 August 1934, Paul Leon Papers, National Library of Ireland, Dublin.

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41. "Unfortunately," he told Harriet Weaver, "she seems to have antagonized a great number of people, including her immediate relatives and as usual I am the fellow in the middle of the rain holding out both hands though whether she is right in her blunt outspokenness or not is a question my head is too addled to answer."
James Joyce to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 25 November 1932, Letters I, 327.

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42. "He was a member of many learned societies: "Membre de la société de pathologie comparée...de la Société anatomique...de l'association française pour l'étude du cancer...de la Société de dermatologie et de syphiligraphe...de la Société d'électrothérapie et de radiologie...de la Société de sexologie (membre fondateur, vice-president)...de la Société de l'anesthésie de d'analgésie." He held military titles and medals of distinction. In 1930, for example he had been named Lauréat de l'académie des sciences; in 1933 he had been elected an Officier de la legion d'honneur. Not only was he honored for a distinguished career in public service, but he was also recognized for his pioneering work in obstetrics, especially in problems during pregnancy and anomalies of birth.
Expose des Titres et des Travaux Scientifiques du Dr. H. Vignes.

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"The whole family was bickering. Looking back at this time in June, Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver that his decision to take up domicile in England had brought only misery into the lives of Nora and Lucia."

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2. "When he [Stuart Gilbert] spoke about her [Lucia's] insomnia, he thought it likely that she was posing--in his words 'profess [ing]' sleeplessness. When he spoke about her nervousness, he used the same language--she was once again 'profess[ing] anxiety."

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3. "In a few days, on 29 May, her own brother would further betray her..."

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4. "Despite Joyce's optimistic projection of an abundant world in wait for Stephen Dedalus, the encounter of Dionysos when a person is alone is different from worshiping him en masse, and it is far more dangerous. She is "just a poor child who tried to do too much, to understand too much," Joyce decided in 1934, as if he had finally understood that the burden of creative license could become too great for a fragile, individual will to bear. The daemonic was both his daughter's heritage and her undoing."

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The following discussion of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake notebook observations supplements the summary chapter about the Wake at the end of my published biography of Lucia Joyce (chapter 16). In this supplementary material, the "sigla" for the daughter figure from Joyce's notebooks forms a kind of additional infrastructure of the biography, arranged chronologically and placed next to the actual events of Lucia's life. They show what Joyce observed about Lucia as she grew and they indicate her consistent influence on the final text of Finnegans Wake. They also indicate the composite nature of the daughter figure in the Wake, as Joyce merges experiential observations with notes from other sources about adolescent girls emerging into womanhood, figures like Alice Liddell from Alice in Wonderland, Isa Bowman, "Peaches" Browning, Isolde from Tristan and Isolde, Edith Thompson from the Trial of Frederic Bywaters and Edith Thompson, Lot's daughters, and so forth. In the early notebooks, the daughter is indicated by the nickname "Is" or "Issy" or "Isabeale" or some variation of the name "Isolde." Later, she, like all of the other major characters, acquired a symbol, , which could also appear on its side, facing either left or right. When used in combination with the symbol , Joyce was usually referring to some aspect of the love triangle in Tristan and Isolde. As Joyce moved from observations of Lucia to the final construction of Finnegans Wake, he went through numerous drafts. Following these drafts lets us see, in a way that is rarely available to scholars, the transposition of life into art. As Joyce progressed from watching his adolescent daughter, he joined her, in his imagination, with the situation of other young women entering into life for the first time. He shows them learning about the nature of human intimacy, the anatomy of sex, the secrecy, suspicions and possibilities for betrayal that can accompany sex, and the complexities and ambiguities of human emotional attachments. Of particular interest to me, was Joyce's propensity to align Lucia with "triangles" and with close brother-sister relationships in history and literature. That is, one of his basic instincts led him to figure her as (for example) Isolde in the the story of Tristan, King Mark and Isolde, where, interestingly, the triangle is transposed to Shaun, Earwicker and Issy, that is, to the Wakean characters associated, in familial terms, with Giorgio, Joyce and Lucia. This triangular pattern and the brother-sister attachment pattern are insistent in Joyce's notebooks, in his drafts and in the final version of Finnegans Wake. The triangular pattern is also insistent in my biography of Lucia, as published, but, with the addition of this notebook and draft evidence, the assertion of these heavily weighted familial relationships is even more compelling than in the published version made available to scholars and reviewers. In fact, given the consistency of Joyce's evidence, a biographer would have been irresponsible to create a narrative without these emotional constellations. Here you will find an additional infrastructure for my biography, given in the form of citations from the notebooks, for scholars who are interested in tracing most of Joyce's observations of the Lucia/Issy character. Also included are several examples of the transformational use of such material that I did not include in the final version of the book; that is, in the published book, I used only material from Finnegans Wake and not the genetic material leading up to it, the material that shows Joyce's chronological observation of Lucia and his transformational use of it.

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"Grisly old sykos who have done our unsmiling bit on 'alices when they were yung and easily freudened."
(FW 115.21-23)

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"We found Lucia after seven months of the clinic almost on the verge of collapse. Utter despair. The doctor says [that] after all that time he can make no diagnostic. They are helpless in the case. The only hold she seems to have on life is her affection for us I feel if she stays there she will simply fade out."
James Joyce to Carola Giedion-Welcker, 2 September 1934, The Letters of James Joyce, vol. III, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: The Viking Press and London: Faber and Faber, 1966), 323.

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"pyrolyphics"
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46. "commanding approaches to my intimast innermost"
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47. "The normal is 5000 to 6500. She has 17,000 to 20,000. He has never known another such case of constant leukocytes. This does not mean that she is anemic. She is not. Anemia is a deficiency of red corposcles [sic]. Nor does it mean that she has leukemia-white blood..."
James Joyce to Giorgio Joyce, 9 September 1934, Unpublished letter, RE Papers.

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48. "for his beautiful corssmess parzel"
(FW 619.04)

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"That in eighty years scientists would still not have discovered such an underlying organic disease would probably have astounded both Bleuler and Maier, and this fact lends pathos to their decision not to pursue therapeutic interventions or to give more empathetic understanding to their patients."

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2. "But Baynes, who knew quite explicitly that Lucia had been undergoing blood tests for syphilis, assured Lucia that 'you have no such place like that so they do not know why you should have so many of these cells.'"

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3. "Henri took up this theme and told him [Joyce] if he would but understand what was transpiring in her [Lucia's] mind, he would indeed have the clue to a new idea, but he could not get it."

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