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SCROLL I : 320mm HEIGHT 5330mm LENGTH X 37mm WIDTH (CLOSED).
SCROLL II :320mm HEIGHT 3715mm LENGTH X 30mm WIDTH (CLOSED).
SCROLL III : 320mm HEIGHT 5600mm LENGTH X 40mm WIDTH (CLOSED).
WOODEN BOXES : 75mm X 355mm LENGTH X 79mm WIDTH.
UNWRITTEN AFTER JAMES JOYCE : ULYSSES, PENELOPE EPISODE 1. ROSENBACH MANUSCRIPT 2.
PAGES 1 THROUGH 26, FINISHED AS WRITTEN, IN TRIESTE-ZURICH-PARIS 1914-1921.
AND AFTER JAMES JOYCE : ULYSSES, WITH TRANSLATION BY MARUYA SAIICHI, NAGAKAWA REIJI
AND TAKAMATSU YUUICHI : PENELOPE EPISODE PAGES 546 THROUGH 563
FIRST PUBLISHED BY SHUAEI-SHA IN TOKYO 16 MAY 1997.
1. " PENELOPE IS THE CLOU OF THE BOOK. THE FIRST SENTENCE CONTAINS 2500 WORDS.
THERE ARE EIGHT SENTENCES IN THE EPISODE. IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE FEMALE WORD YES. IT TURNS LIKE A HUGE EARTH BALL SLOWLY SURELY AND EVENTUALLY ROUND SPINNING, ITS FOUR CARDINAL POINTS BEING THE FEMALE BREASTS, ARSE, WOMB AND CUNT EXPRESSED BY THE WORDS BECAUSE, BOTTOM (IN ALL SENSES BOTTOM, BUTTON, BOTTOM OF THE CLASS, BOTTOM OF THE SEA, BOTTOM OF HIS HEART), WOMAN, YES. THOUGH PROBABLY MORE OBSCENE THAN ANY PRECEDING EPISODE IT SEEMS TO ME TO BE PERFECTLY SANE FULL AMORAL FERTILISABLE UNTRUSTWORTHY ENGAGING SCHREWD LIMITED PRUDENT INDIFERENT WEIB.ICH BIN DER (SIC) FLEISCH DER STETS BEJAHT."
JAMES JOYCE LETTER TO FRANK BUDGEN DATED 16 AUGUST 1921.
2. ROSENBACHMANUSCRIPT : QUINN WROTE TO JOYCE ON 21 JANUARY 1924 INFORMING HIM OF THE RESULTS OF THE SALE AND ASKING HIM TO FORWARD THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE LAST 6 PAGES OF THE BOOK, WHICH, HE NOTED, HAD NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THE PARCEL SENT ON 1 MAY 1922.
ON LEARNING OF THE FIGURE, AND ON HIS NEW PERSONA OF MAN OF SUBSTANCE, JOYCE WAS OVERCOME WITH 'STUPOR AND INDIGNATION'. HE ASSURED QUINN THAT THE FINAL PAGES HAD BEEN ADDED ON PROOF (IN FACT THEY HAD NOT BEEN AS HE HAD RETAINED THE MANUSCRIPT OF THESE PAGES) AND HE UNGRATEFULLY, IF POLITELY DISDAINED THE $239.37.
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