He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
- James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, Dubliners
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