But this or...

Cf. Robert Browning, "How it Strikes a Contemporary": "and this, or something like it, was his way." Bleistein, being misrepresented in the three ways that Joyce describes in the the portrait, himself points out Venice's misrepresentation. This is a complex working out of what Browning's poem achieves.

reference topics

How it Strikes a Contemporary
Contemporary and Bleistein
Burbank and The Beautiful Dream
Burbank and Bleistein
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