hqt 's review for:

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

5.0

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"Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less. Then she said I would come back to faith because I had a restless mind. This means to leave church by back door of sin and re-enter through the skylight of repentance. Cannot repent. Told her so and asked for sixpence. Got threepence."

finally found the nerve to tackle my first Joyce, looking forward to Ulysses✨