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- ↑ Frank Weaver. "Music in the Works of James Joyce". James-joyce-music.com. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ↑ James Michael Welsh; Peter Lev (2007). The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation. Scarecrow Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780810859494.
- ↑ Knight letter, Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1994, p. 21
- ↑ "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls", Music in the Works of James Joyce, james-joyce-music.com
