{"id":323,"date":"2007-08-29T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/apocrypha-and-the-life-of-literary-anecdotes\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T17:53:43","slug":"apocrypha-and-the-life-of-literary-anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/reading\/literature\/apocrypha-and-the-life-of-literary-anecdotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Come in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/toms_art\/jimezraford.jpg\" class=\"right\" title=\"ford madox ford, james joyce, and ezra pound\" alt=\"ford madox ford, james joyce, and ezra pound\" align=\"right\" width=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=78&amp;aid=128765\" title=\"poynter online on james joyce\" target=\"_blank\">A story often repeated<\/a> is that Joyce&#8217;s sometime amanuensis, Samuel Beckett, inserted the words &#8220;come in&#8221; into <em>Finnegans Wake, <\/em>unaware that Joyce was answering a knock at the door. This story originates, I think, with Richard Ellman&#8217;s biography, <em>James Joyce; <\/em>at any rate it appears there. I think that Beckett himself may have promoted the anecdote, which may be more pertinent to him than to Joyce.<\/p>\n<p>But where in the text does this phrase appear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story often repeated is that Joyce&#8217;s sometime amanuensis, Samuel Beckett, inserted the words &#8220;come in&#8221; into Finnegans Wake, unaware that Joyce was answering a knock at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}