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Where did chamber music come from?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

This may help a bit: Ellmann reports (from a 1949 conversation with Eva Joyce) that the chamberpot connotation has its origin in a visit he made, accompanied by Oliver Gogarty, to a young widow named Jenny in May 1904. The three of them drank porter while Joyce read manuscript versions of the poems aloud - and, at one point, Jenny retreated behind a screen to make use of a chamber pot. Gogarty commented, "There's a critic for you!". When Joyce later told this story to Stanislaus, his brother agreed that it was a "favourable omen".[2] In Ulysses, Leopold Bloom reflects, "Chamber music. Could make a pun on that."[3] In fact, the poetry of Chamber Music is not in the least bawdy, nor reminiscent of the sound of tinkling urine.

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17y ago

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