Statuesque


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This is Emma and I standing alongside a statue of one of Dublin’s most celebrated sons, the author of Ulysses. I have a collection of audiotapes of the novel, recorded twenty years ago and still gathering dust. I have promised myself that one day, when I am too ill to move from my chair, but well enough to stand the strain, I will listen to the recording. But I digress. The picture, as I said, shows Emma and me by the statue of the renowned James Joyce - affectionately know by Dubliners as “the prick with the stick”. There are many statues in Dublin and I had thought we might get the chance of photographing most of them. I particularly wanted a picture of Anna Livia, the personification of the river Liffey - a.k.a “the floozie in the Jacuzzi” or the “hoo-er in the sewer” (hoo-er being the local pronunciation of whore). Sadly, I learned it has been taken down and replaced by the Dublin Spire (or “the spike”) - 120 meters tall and pointless, as our guide described it.

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