12-04-2017, 11:52 PM
It seems to me that James Joyce succeeded in what he set out to do, while some of the people I mentioned succeeded, if they did succeed, despite themselves. They were driven to what they accomplished after failing in the traditional modes. Or maybe it stopped being worth the effort, and they put the effort elsewhere. . . . Besides all that, I wonder about the writer without a book, without a book as the goal, nor other media. The writer as travelling oral salesman.