Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes
— Ovid, Metamorphoses , VIII, 188,
epigraph to Joyce's Portrait
Paul Hertz, alias "Ignotus the Mage" —
"When we're doing the fortunetelling, as soon
as we finish capturing the face and the voice,
they get sent right over to the table." — Paul Hertz,
"Ignotus" video, 2013
Commentary:
"… ignotus has faint connotations of lowness,
baseness, vulgarity"
— "International Eyesore: Joyce the Pornographer,"
by S. J. Boyd, pp. 31-60 in Troubled Histories,
Troubled Fictions , ed. by C. C. Barfoot et al.
Or not so faint.
Related material:
The villanelle from A Portrait , and
a Log24 post of St. Stephen's Day, 2011.