H.G. Wells writing a letter to Joyce after reading Finnegan's Wake:
>Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering?
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/21/who-the-hell-is-this-joyce/
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Wells was also critical of Swift. In a review of Portrait (Joyce), Wells said: "Like Swift and another living Irish writer, Mr. Joyce has a cloacal obsession. He would bring back into the general picture of life aspects which modern drainage and modern decorum have taken out of ordinary inter course and conversation."
From Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated, page 137.
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Who the hell is this Wells who demands I spend any time at all on his genre sci-shit over another literary writer far more acclaimed and intelligent than him?