> On Aug 29, 2015, at 1:16 PM, David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > James Joyce entertained the thought of playing the lute, of course, so > he should, it was the fashion of the time to entertain this thought, > but did not play the lute.
And apparently didn’t play guitar terribly well either. >From Richard Ellman’s book on Joyce (titled, with diabolical cleverness, >“James Joyce”), writing of Joyce’s time in Zurich: "[Ottacaro Weiss, a student from Trieste] and Joyce, who lived fairly close to each other, began to attend operas and concerts together, and Weiss was able to Joyce into the Tonhalle with a student ticket. At home Joyce impressed Weiss with his fine, pleasant voice, but scandalized him by a totally unacceptable accompaniment, played at that time on a guitar, and later on an old upright piano badly out of tune." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
