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[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/27/06 12:41:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com writes:

<<   Joyce & Faulkner met at a party.  Faulkner was, no shock, drunk.  He 
approached Joyce (whose level of sobriety is left unclear), and said something to 
the effect of, "James Joyce.  You are the greatest living writer. To prove 
this fact, I will throw myself out of this window." At which point he had to be 
restrained from
 defenestration (or whatever the equivalent is when one doesn't make contact 
with glass, or for that matter, glazed sugar.) >>

I was going to say flat out that this was apochyphal, as I've never heard it 
and it would be oft-told, if true.  But, to be sure, I just ploughed through 
Joseph Blotner's 2-volume life of Faulkner and there's no mention.

Faulkner did, however, greatly esteem Joyce.  (Big surprise.)