A first edition of Ulysses sold for $460,000 in auction at Christie’s in 2002. The price might have upset the union chief, convicted gangster, and major-league James Joyce book collector Dennis Silver
Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot; he tries to console himself with the wisdom of t