Fritz Senn

but he would not want to have maybe a scene turned into a play or something.

So actually, a lot of creative writers had their problems with Stephen James Joyce.

Stephen would also veto theatre productions of Joyce's works, or he would say, sure, you can have it, but you have to pay 70 euros per minute.

Well, that was that.

Of course, that's...

That's a way of saying no.

Yeah, but of course you could also see that he had a difficult childhood.

Definitely could.

And we have a letter written in the 1950s to Carola Gideon Welker.

And when he is referring to his mother, he uses the word only in inverted commas, in quotation marks.

Stephen Joyce had a difficult childhood.

Carola Gideon Welker, Joyce's Zurich friend, recalls in an interview that Georgia Joyce once said to her that my life would have been an easier and better one if my father had been a butcher rather than a famous writer.

Mulligan is a contaminated, bloody, double-dyed ruffian, by all accounts.

His name stinks all over Dublin.

I won't have her bastard whenever you ruin my son.

A counter-jumper, son.

I'll tickle his catastrophe, believe you me.

Joyce was buried in Flunten Cemetery near the zoo.

It was a consolation for Nora that her husband should be able to hear the animals roar from his grave as he was very fond of lions.

Then he went to the dresser, took the jug Hanlon's milkman had just filled for him, poured warm bubbled milk on a saucer, and set it slowly on the floor.