i) textual meditations have no poetic interest for Claude Royet-Journoud. [1]
ii) nothing in these notes is outside the scope of contemporary art. [2]
iii) ‘the demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works’. James Joyce was smiling as he said this. [3]
iv) what are you doing?
References:
[1] Serge Gavronsky. Toward a New Poetics: Contemporary Writing in France. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9g500908/
[2] This idea is derived from Walter Benjamin. In Theses on History (1940) he says that nothing which has ever happened is lost to history.
[3] Quoted by Sarah Davison in a review of a new book on James Joyce by Patrick Hastings, The Times Literary Supplement, September 2, 2022. P. 24.