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X X I I I / A M E S [ 1914-1915 ]What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! BrekkekKekkek Kekkek Kekkek! Koax Koax Koax! Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! . . .Killykillkilly: a toll, a toll.—Finnegans Wake (4)War broke out, without decent regard for exiled writers, just when Joycewas intent upon finishing A Portrait of the Artist and upon beginningExiles and Ulysses. When Austria declared war upon Serbia, on July 28,1914, he hastened to the British consulate with Giorgio, but was assuredthat there was no reason for concern on the part of British subjects. Hecalled next upon Boris Furlan, who lived close to the Italian consulate,to ask what seemed likely to happen. Furlan was very pessimistic, anticipatingthat the war would spread; but Joyce reported what he had heardat the consulate and was calming himself when suddenly a mob surroundedthe Italian consulate and tried to remove the Italian flag.Withina few moments a detachment of soldiers enfiladed in front of the building.Joyce was frightened, seized Giorgio's hand, and rushed away fromFurlan's house. 1It was, however, not he but Stanislaus who got into trouble. For someyears Stanislaus had been an outspoken Irredentist, basking in the anticlericalliberalism which Garibaldi had left behind him in Italy. He expressedhimself with reckless candor against the Holy Roman Empire andthe Vatican 'empire.' When war began he did not become circumspect,and his forthright remarks drew the attention of the authorities to him.Stanislaus paid no attention, and even went on a tour of the fortificationsat Trieste with a friend of his named Petz. 2As a result he was arrestedon January 9, 1915, and sent to Austrian detention centers for the rest ofthe war. The ant was interned, but the grasshopper continued his dance.Not that James Joyce's life sounded much like dancing. He was permittedto go on teaching at the Scuola di Commercio, and he also kepta part-time job, which he had held since January 1914, as English cor-380