noodlemanning 's review for:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

5.0

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“The soul is born--[...]--first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion, I shall try to fly by those nets--”