Proteus: Comments by Joyce

"You catch the drift of the thing?" said Joyce. "It's the struggle with Proteus. Change is the theme. Everything changes – sea, sky, man, animals. The words change, too."

(Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses," p. 48 / p. 49)

[Joyce mentions the telegram Stephen received: "Nother dying come home father." (3:199, p. 35):]

Joyce looked up and said:
"I haven't let this young man off very lightly, have I? Many writers have written about themselves. I wonder if any one of them has been as candid as I have?"