Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. repr. in Critical Writings, sct. 46, eds. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann (1959). “The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran,” Piccolo della Sera, Trieste (Sept. 5, 1912).
