“Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.”

— James Joyce , book Pomes Penyeach

A Memory Of The Players In A Mirror At Midnight, p. 19
Pomes Penyeach (1927)

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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