Why did he name it "The Soul is Not a Smithy"? I know that it's a Joyce reference, but I don't get it.

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Anonymous Wed May 3 23:08:07 2017 No.9462082 [Reply] [Original]

Why did he name it "The Soul is Not a Smithy"? I know that it's a Joyce reference, but I don't get it.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC Wed May 3 23:13:11 2017 No.9462092 File: 565 KB, 963x942, Stoop kid.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9462082 High class name dropping. Just like lifting Shakespeare's infinite jest

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:15:00 2017 No.9462099 >>9462092 But surely he had to have at least some kind of flimsy way to justify it? Right? R-right????

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:24:37 2017 No.9462123 >>9462082 Because its a Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:45:04 2017 No.9462318 >>9462123 H O L Y . . .

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