I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter , published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of Ulysses did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too.

Auteur: Christopher Hitchens

I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3706.George_Orwell" title="George Orwell" rel="nofollow noopener">George Orwell</a>, in his second novel, <i>
  <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/978916.A_Clergyman_s_Daughter" title="A Clergyman's Daughter" rel="nofollow noopener">A Clergyman's Daughter</a>
</i>, published in 1935, had borrowed from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5144.Joyce" title="Joyce" rel="nofollow noopener">Joyce</a> for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of <i>
  <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3369451.Ulysses" title="Ulysses" rel="nofollow noopener">Ulysses</a>
</i> did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too. - Christopher Hitchens


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