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    <body><![CDATA[I am recommending this for two reasons.<br/>The first is that the introduction is by Conor McPherson, a playwright whose works (among them THE SEAFARER, which is currently on Broadway) take a cue from Joyce and Yeats.<br/>The second reason is that this volume contains a twelve-page set of notes by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12108486">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I have wounded my soul for you -- a deep wound of doubt which can never be healed. I can never know, never in this world. I do not wish to know or to believe. I do not care. It is not in the darkness of belief that I desire you. But in restless living wounding doubt. To hold you by no bonds, e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76135739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Exiles is worth reading, if you happen to be a James Joyce devotee, but it catches one offguard: written between Portrait and Ulysses, it has none of the stylistic innovation.  In fact, it is very plain, perhaps to the point of making it not interesting.  But, upon further reflection, it is not bad,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1526854">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is interesting to see Joyce work within the confines of playwriting, but I found this text inferior to the rest of his body of work.  To see Joyce in superior playwright form, seek out the &quot;Circe&quot; episode in *Ulysses.*]]></body>
    
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