James Joyce: “He was Unheeded, Happy, and Near to the Wild Heart of Life”

His Ass on the Gray Pillow

β€œHe was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man