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What an incredible day! I visited the unparalleled James Joyce Collection at The University at Buffalo and beheld Joyce’s spectacles, the 1939 first edition of Finnegans Wake, and Sylvia Beach’s personally-bound copy of Ulysses. I surveyed Joyce’s collected notebooks and related lit and met with a Joycean scholar who operates a used bookshop in town in an effort to secure one of the University’s workbooks with facsimiles of Joyce’s handwritten notes for The Wake. It's quite a rare specimen but I enjoy a challenge! And as a gift, a professor kindly provided me with a copy of Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection!

The manuscripts were riveting, and as icing on the cake I happened upon a stunning Joyce portrait from The Irish Classical Theatre’s 2000 production of Nightmaze - The Wake realized for the stage - which would be a brilliant complement to my framed issue of Time from ‘39 with Joyce’s portrait on the cover. The proprietor of the bookshop refused to part with the print but I’ve contacted the Classical Theatre to see if they have a copy.

Also enjoyed some engaging conversations with library and bookshop patrons. A fine day, indeed!

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