From: "Clifford Duffy" <cwduff-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Auto mobile
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 02:57:07 -0400


Carola Giedion-Welcker, remembering her first meeting with James Joyce in 
1928,
recalls speaking with him about the growing mechanization in the world.  
"Suddenly Joyce
asked  -- as if finally to make a sharp verbal clarification ... 'Tell me, 
what sort of an idea do you
think the word  "automobile" would have aroused  in the Middle Ages? 
Certainly only that of a
divine being' he added without waiting for my answer,  'a self mover, thus a 
god.' "   She
continues, "Joyce wanted to crystallize a  cultural state, or better yet the 
cultural crisis of a
century.  For God and technology had moved critically close to each other."
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