[lit-ideas] Joyce on Rome

  • From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:04:31 -0700

James Joyce once likened Rome to "a man who lives by exhibiting to
travelers his grandmother's corpse."  In addition to which, Rome was a
brutal, brutal society.  Is that what they've done for us?

Joyce was talking about contemporary Rome, the city, not about the Roman Republic.


Robert Paul
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