Mark Rennella

Oct 5, 2023 | shepherd.com | Mark Rennella |James Joyce |Emily Dickinson |Frederick Douglass

Joyce’s novel is the first of four literary works that helped me to envision myself as a writer. I read it in 11th grade. The opening of the novel startles the reader because it uses language to depict the point of view of a baby’s first conscious thoughts, listening to a parent calling him by a nickname: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.