“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
James Joyce book Dubliners
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Dubliners (1914)
“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
— James Joyce, book Dubliners
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