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    In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses."About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life.""Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output.""Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.

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In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses."About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life.""Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output.""Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.

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