re. Joyce appearance in new novel?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

*Not so sure about this. But if so, let the man choose the episode
where Joyce and Proust share a taxi in Paris, not knowing what
to talk about, because none of them had read the books of the
other (cf. Edmund White: Proust. New York 1999: Viking Penguin,
opening chapter). Must have been a pretty loud silence, I imagine.
Later on, however, Joyce started to read Proust and scattered refs
all over Finnegans Wake.  First one I found (actually --- Bibliomancy!
--- it was the first page I looked at, opening up the book: no joke), 
is the following, which turns out to be full of ambivalences. Anxiety of 
influence and all, I'd say: 

"From it you will here notice, Schott, upon my for the first remarking 
you that the sophology of Bitchson while driven as under by a purely
dime-dime urge is not without its cashcash characktericksticks,
borrowed for its nonce ends from the fiery goodmother Miss Fortune 
(who the lost time we had the pleasure we have had our little RECHERCHÉ
 [JJ's emphasis: k°] brush with, what, Schott?) and as I further could have 
told you as brisk as your D.B.C. behaviouristically PAILLETÉ [s.a.] with a coat 
of homoid icing which is in reality only a done by chance ridiculisation of the 
whoo-whoo and where's hair theorics of Winestain. To put it all the more 
plumbsily. The speechform is a mere sorrogate. Whilst the quality and tality 
(I shall explex what you ought to mean by this with its proper when and
where and why and how in the subsequent sentence) are alternativomentally
harrogate and arrogate, as the gates may be" 
(edition suhrkamp edition, p. 149). 
 
Thomas Mann, just by the way, was always proud when people did put him
in the major league's magick triangle with Joyce and Proust. Didn't say it that 
loud, of course. But you can find this, more than just once or twice, in his later 
diaries. Yep, the ones Brodkey liked so very very much. 

Kai


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