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debt of gratitude to him. He helped me in every possible way in
the face of very great difficulties for seven years before I met him,
and since then he has always been ready to give me advice and
appreciation which I esteem very highly as coming from a mind of
such brilliance and discernment. I hope that your review, setting
out under so good a name, will have the success which it deserves.
Sincerely yours
James Joyce." 16
Some years later, Pound repaid this endorsement by devoting
one of his broadcasts to a memorial to Joyce's career.
In later years, Pound spoke rather benevolently of "Jimmy",
whom he had once termed a "dour Aberdeen minister". A more
intimate view of Joyce has been given us by Oliver St. John
Gogarty:
"Joyce was an unloveable and lonely man; but he willed his
life. He was an artist deliberately and naturally, and for this he
sacrificed everything, even his humanity. . . . He had the wrong
idea of an artist when he dressed himself as a Rembrandt and
sent postcards with his portrait to his friends—or rather to his
acquaintances, for he would not acknowledge that anyone could be
his friend." 17