Thursday, 12 January 2017

The reading stopped soon after the description of the Wonderworker at, “a lady by origin” (17.1853).

The Wonderworker is described in more detail on http://www.jjon.org: It was a “small spade-shaped” device designed “for the insertion in the rectum, intended originally as a cure for hemorrhoids but later accepted for its talismanic properties in the treatment of all human ills” (http://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-environs/wonderworker, from Norman Lewis's autobiographyJackdaw Cake).