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Portrait of the Artist (75% done)

Every sentence in the description of his religious conversion and then his mortification of his sinful flesh is great . . . but there are just so many of them.  I think the passages would today ring most true to the fallen away fundamentalist or evangelist. I don't think very many Catholics, at least in the USA, have felt Joyce's intensity.

Next scene is the famous epiphany, the call to be the artist.  The girl on the beach, looking into his eyes, neither wanton or shy.  Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

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