9/20/2023 0 Comments Old english letters font james![]() ![]() “The last drop of seed has hardly been squirted up your c*nt before it is over and my true love for you, the love of my verses, the love of my eyes for your strange luring eyes, comes blowing over my soul like a wind of spices.” “THE LOVE OF MY EYES FOR YOUR STRANGE LURING EYES." “My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes or to fling you down under me on that soft belly of yours and f*ck you up behind, like a hog riding a sow, glorying in the open shame of your upturned dress and white girlish drawers and in the confusion of your flushed cheeks and tangled hair.” “A SUDDEN IMMODEST NOISE MADE BY YOU BEHIND” “PERHAPS THE HORN I HAD WAS NOT BIG ENOUGH.” If you fear you may be offended by such language, now's your chance to go elsewhere. ![]() In his letters to Nora, Joyce gets straight to the point, and that point is taboo, intimate sex with a fixation on certain bodily fluids. Do not expect the subtle and opaque wordplay Joyce used in his most famous work, Ulysses. These passages are not for the faint of heart or the underage. Feel free to use any of the excerpts in your card-and here’s hoping your significant other likes poetry.Īs a warning: these letters are dirty. ![]() There’s a question of decorum when examining the artifacts of the dead: What secrets or intimate details of one’s life should remain private? However, in the case of a brilliant literary mind like James Joyce, sharing his words seems like a public service, especially with Valentine’s Day coming up. That text has since gone out of print, though the letters have been published online and preserved. Although her side of the correspondence has been lost, the letters Joyce sent were published in the 1975 book Selected Letters of James Joyce. In November 1909, Nora Barnacle initiated writing letters back and forth with her partner and future husband, famed Irish writer James Joyce, while he was in Dublin and she was raising their children in Trieste. Don’t let anyone tell you that the turn of the century is prudish. ![]()
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