WAKE WALKING

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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">You don’t need to be much of a Joycean (and I’m certainly not much of one) to</span></div><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">know that James Joyce was a good and enthusiastic walker, and yet it still took me by surprise, dipping again into Ellmann’s biography to read the following:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“He brought home from Clongowes, Stanislaus attests, a variety of cups for his prowess in hurdling and walking.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Well, I’ve never claimed to have a photographic memory, but even so I thought I might have remembered that.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d0bN5EFpU3..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d0bN5EFpU3..." width="420" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanislaus Joyce</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Stanislaus is, of course, Joyce’s brother, and the information comes from his memoir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Brother’s Keeper, </i>where there’s just a little more detail:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></i>“When after four years or so he left Clongowes, we had at home a sideboard full of cups and a “silver” (electro-plate) teapot and coffee pot that he had won in the school hurdles and walking events.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xbEhnyGuy3..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="592" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xbEhnyGuy3..." width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clongowes playing field</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I assume this was race walking but I’m not altogether sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And we all know that times have changed, but even so I find it hard to imagine a world in which young schoolboys – Joyce was ten years old when he left Clongowes - won silver teapots for walking, even if only electro-plated.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Trying to find out more I have discovered two other surprising, if not wholly relevant, things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>First, there’s an annual event called The James Joyce Ramble, </span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">a 10-kilometer race held in Dedham, Massachusetts</span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">,</span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">an event for runners and walkers alike.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qm-C1br2GB..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="366" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qm-C1br2GB..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It was created in 1984, by Martin Casimir Hanley who was reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnegans Wake</i> and found the book as arduous as running a road race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Well, you can pay your money and take your choice on that one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Apparently actors are positioned along the course and recite the works of Joyce as runners and walkers pass by.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Zbeia6ciAn..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Zbeia6ciAn..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The other thing: did you know there’s a street in London called James Joyce Walk?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I didn’t, and I really feel I should have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s in Brixton, just off Shakespeare Road, but it really doesn’t look all that Joycean.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; 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