it is only necessary to remove the dateline from any newspaper t… — "Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 46, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 12.

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it is only necessary to remove the dateline from any newspaper to create a similar if less satisfactory model of the universe. That is what R.L. Stevenson meant when he said he could make an epic of a newspaper if he knew what to leave out. Joyce knew what to leave out.

"Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 46, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 12.

Quote #2881

Year: 1954

Chapter: Ignorance