People · 1965
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
— Anthony Burgess ‧ Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The passage imagines an artist's soul as a hungry, growing creature nourished by experience. Calling each experience a grain makes even small encounters seem useful within that picture. The image presents creativity as an appetite that keeps drawing material from life.
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