And why couldn't he have a voice too? asked Freddy Malins s… - James Joyce

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And why couldn't he have a voice too? asked Freddy Malins sharply. Is it because he's only a black? Nobody answered this question and Mary Jane led the table back to the legitimate opera.

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet.

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He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
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