Dismaying, a little

I learn in the new New York Review of Books that Ezra Pound was influential in getting sections of Jouce's Ulysses published in the American literary journal the Little Review.  One of the pieces (for which the issue was suppressed) included one "proposed title" -- which I was amazed to see -- and research showed me was not far in the finished book, which i read with care long ago -- including this passage no doubt -- which i thereupon forgot that I had read, except i perhaps had NOT forgot:

EVERYMAN HIS OWN WIFE             OR     A HONEYMOON IN THE HAND (A NATIONAL IMMORALITY IN THREE ORGASMS)             BY     BALLOCKY MULLIGAN

It's even described as a sort of play, as was my own:


Ars Auto-Amatoria, or
Every Man his Own WIfe

A Very Heroic Epyllion, in Four Fits
...with a Dramatis personae which included "the brothers,Ballaock, a pair of hangers-on"  (see Daemonomania, pp.147-152 of the Bantam edition).  OBVIOUSLY readers have assumed I just lifted it.  And maybe I did.
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