Re: “Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress” and A few weeks later I get a letter from some university in Texas (can’t remember which Weeks went by — and then one day I get a package from the university. The estate had given <\/P> “Eh what?”<\/I> Among his many expatriate adventures, Hammond lived in England once Re: “Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress” and James Joyces’s “Finnegan’s Wake” (see CATCHING UP WITH LEON and scroll to the postscript), a message arrived from Hammond Guthrie, who is a poet, artist, screenwriter, editor (The 3rd Page) and intrepid autobiographer (“AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor”): I wanted to read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-d5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJames Joyces’s “Finnegan’s
\nWake”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> (see CATCHING UP WITH LEON<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\nand scroll to the postscript), a message arrived from Hammond Guthrie, who is a poet, artist,
\nscreenwriter, editor (The 3rd Page<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>) and intrepid
\nautobiographer (
\nMemoirs of a Beat Survivor”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>):<\/P>
\nI wanted to read the very text that these authors (Beckett et al) read in order
\nto write their reviews (views) of “Anna Livia Plurabelle” — pre publication of the “Wake.” I
\nsearched the Joyce sites but all I could find were post-publication versions of same. So I began
\nsearching university libraries. Finally I got a note from some university guy in Boston who said he
\nwould forward my request along the university grapevine.
\n
\noff-hand, but I have it filed). They indeed had in their collection the original document that was
\nsent to the various authors of “Exagmination” — which I could read only if I came to Texas, as it
\nhad never been copied. I said that was out of the question. I was told my only option was to
\napproach the Joyce Estate — which I did via the university librarian — filling out all sorts of
\nforms.<\/P>
\n
\ntheir permission for me to have a copy! It is the only copy of the original document — which I had
\nto promise in writing not to publish, and which I haven’t. Yet I do have the copy at hand.
\nInteresting, eh what?<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nupon a time.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"