| It has always interested me (perhaps because of | | | | Pound, James Joyce would never have made the |
| my background in psychology), how men and | | | | grade. Ulysses, was gone over by Mr. Pound, and |
| women are made, from the days of youth, to | | | | Joyce took all the information he was willing to |
| the days of just prior to death. It is never | | | | give to heart, made his changes as needed: Joyce |
| because one man stood alone against all the odds | | | | was not dumb, just not skilled, and thus he |
| in the world. It is because he took opportunity | | | | produced a best seller, he learned on the job; and |
| when it came by. He saw it, grabbed it, and thus, | | | | the Dubliners, well, he kept what he learned and |
| waited, or polished, or whatever it took he or she | | | | life went on. |
| did, to make it to the next step, and so I just | | | | As for Hemingway, he had help on three sides or |
| wanted to take a quick view of two famous | | | | four. One, it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who got the |
| writers, whom would not have been famous had | | | | publishers to look at his stuff. Second, it was |
| they not done what I just said, or so I believe, | | | | Shakespeare And Company that became his |
| and been at in the right place at the right time | | | | second home, and where he got his books to |
| (and I think I can say, they went to the right | | | | read, and study free. Third, he got Ezra Pound to |
| place, hoping to find what they did find, as I did in | | | | take him under his wing, and teach him the art, as |
| 1968, when I went to San Francisco, against | | | | did Anderson take Hemingway under his wing, and |
| many odds, and wrote a book about it, called, | | | | introduced him to his publishers as well, and Stein, |
| "Romancing San Francisco". | | | | she introduced him to the writers and artist, and |
| What made these two people I will bring to light in | | | | poets of Paris; in addition, he came from a pretty |
| a moment, good writers? Somewhere, along the | | | | well off family, other than that, he was a reporter |
| line, everyone gets a little help. James Joyce was | | | | with a rough way of writing, that would not have |
| a very bad writer, I have a few of his First | | | | sold a book, had he not taken advantage of what |
| Edition poem books, he wrote a few of them, | | | | came his way. And yes, in time he turned out to |
| they are not all that great either. But why was his | | | | be a fairly good writer, too much dialogue for me, |
| book, number one throughout the 1930s, if he | | | | yet I have most, if not all his books, first editions, |
| was not so hot? Some people have good skills | | | | so nonetheless, he was a good writer (some |
| and imagination, others have one or the other, | | | | psychological problems in the head, but most |
| and seldom do they have both. Joyce had a good | | | | writers got them, he just could not control them). |
| imagination, but stunk on skills, if it wasn't for Ezra | | | | |