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[ Aetat. 34-36 ] J O Y C E xxv19l6-igi8Look, look, the dusk is growing. My branches lofty are taking root. Andmy cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at? It saon is late.Tis endless now senne eye or erewone last saw Waterhouse's clogh. Theytook it asunder, I hurd them sigh. When will they reassemble it? O, myback, my back, my bach! I'd want to go to Aches-les-Pains. Pingpong!There's the Belle for Sexaloitez! And Concepta de Send-us-pray! Pang!Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew!—Finnegans Wake (213)The Joyce family moved about Zurich with more than Odyssean rapidity.On their arrival in June 1915, they stopped briefly and nostalgically atthe Gasthaus Hoffnung, where Joyce and Nora had stayed in 1904 aftertheir elopement from Dublin. Then in a week or two they found a tworoom,scantily furnished flatat 7 Reinhardstrasse. Since they intended toreturn to Trieste after the war, and still had furniture there, they dependedin Zurich on furnished flats.The next one was a third-floor flatat 10 Kreuzstrasse, where they moved on October 15, 1915. In March1916, they moved again, this time to 54 Seefeldstrasse, where they hada kitchen, living room, and two bedrooms, one of them very tiny, forabout 40 Swiss francs a month. The flatwas damp. They remained there,not liking it, until early in 1917.His time being his own, Joyce lived as irregularly as he could wish.He stayed late at cafes and restaurants, and rose late in the mornings.During the day he gave occasional lessons and worked on Ulysses.Through his efforts to have Exiles produced, and through his long convivialevenings, he soon came to know great numbers of people in Zurich,just as he had known almost everyone in Trieste. One of his favoritemeeting places was the Restaurant zum Weisses Kreuz, a short way upthe Seefeldstrasse. There a group calling themselves the Club des Etrangersused to assemble once a week. Joyce became'friendly with the members,especially with Paul Phokas, who satisfied his need for a Greek407