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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
by James Joyce
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}Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.{
- Ovid, }Metamorphoses{, VIII, 188
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$/Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was
a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow
that was coming down along the road met a nicens little
boy named baby tuckoo ....
$His father told him that story: his father looked at him
through a glass: he had a hairy face.
$He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road
where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
$$$}O,{ }the{ }wild{ }rose{ }blossoms{
$$$}On{ }the{ }little{ }green{ }place.{
$He sang . . .