…the key incident was in 1909 when he went to Galway. Joyce went to Galway to see the grave of his wife's former lover, Michael Bodkin, the one who appears as Michael Fury in the dead which was recently made into a movie and some of you may be more…

…of you may be more familiar with it than if it had just remained in a book. Joyce had a very deep obsession with Michael Bodkin. He felt that in some sense Nora loved Michael Bodkin more than him because after all Michael Bodkin died for her in a…

…just remained in a book. Joyce had a very deep obsession with Michael Bodkin. He felt that in some sense Nora loved Michael Bodkin more than him because after all Michael Bodkin died for her in a typically Irish Romantic absurd way Michael Bodkin stood…

…deep obsession with Michael Bodkin. He felt that in some sense Nora loved Michael Bodkin more than him because after all Michael Bodkin died for her in a typically Irish Romantic absurd way Michael Bodkin stood outside Nora's Window singing love songs all…

…loved Michael Bodkin more than him because after all Michael Bodkin died for her in a typically Irish Romantic absurd way Michael Bodkin stood outside Nora's Window singing love songs all night long in the Irish weather Ireland has nine months of winter…

…night long in the Irish weather Ireland has nine months of winter and three months of bad weather every year without exception. Michael Bodkin caught pneumonia standing out there singing love songs all night and died of it and Joyce I think my reading of…

…I think my reading of Joyce is his feeling was that he was not the type of man who would die for love Michael Bodkin was. And Joyce felt that he was psychologically cook olded by Michael Bodkin that there was part of Nora that Michael Bodkin would…

…the type of man who would die for love Michael Bodkin was. And Joyce felt that he was psychologically cook olded by Michael Bodkin that there was part of Nora that Michael Bodkin would always be more intimate with than he was. That's the whole subject…

…Michael Bodkin was. And Joyce felt that he was psychologically cook olded by Michael Bodkin that there was part of Nora that Michael Bodkin would always be more intimate with than he was. That's the whole subject of the dead. The dead is a story about…

…I very much like to. The dead is based on a real incident. Joyce fictionalized it. The real incident was a chap named Michael Bodkin who fell in love with Nora Barnacle in Galway. He stood outside her window one night singing love songs all night long…

…Actually it stops raining three days of the year. They have nine months of winter and three months of bad weather. Anyway Michael Bodkin stood outside the window in the rain singing love songs all night and he got pneumonia and died. This is the most…

…is the most typical Irish story imaginable, but it really happened. It sounds like every Irish Melodrama and Joyce was fascinated by Michael Bodkin. I think because Joyce felt that he would not die for love himself he was too hard boiled and cynical for…

…one deep level of Finnegan's wake the heroine is always choosing between mick and nick and she always chooses mick. Mick is Michael Bodkin all michaels are called mick in Ireland That's always their nickname and nick is the devil. Or James Joyce, who won…

…who comes from Galway and the climax of the story is the revelation of this previous relationship with Michael Fury. Joyce changed Michael Bodkin to Michael Fury to make the symbolism of the archangel Michael come out in the flames of glory and so on.…