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Edward Quinn Irish, 1920-1997
Crowd crossing, O'Connell Street, Dublin, 1963Vintage silver gelatin printPaper size: 20.5 x 30.6 cmSigned by Gret Quinn, titled and dated in pencil, with artist wet stamp versoLiterature
James Joyce's Dublin, with Selected Writings from Joyce's Works, (Nice, 1974),
Page 64
"Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other coming on, passing on. Houses, lines of houses, streets, miles of pavements, piledup bricks, stones. Changing hands. This owner, that. Landlord never dies they say. Other steps into his shoes when he gets his notice to quit. They buy the place up with gold and still they have all the gold. Swindle in it somewhere. Piled up in cities, worn away age after age. Pyramids in sand. Built on bread and onions. Slaves. Chinese wall. Babylon. Big stones left. Round towers. Rest rubble, sprawling suburbs, jerrybuilt, Kerwan’s mushroom houses, built of breeze. Shelter for the night.
No one is anything."
Ulysses, Lestrygonians P. 153
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