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[ Aetat. 38] J O Y C E xxix1920Parysis, tu sais, crucycrooks, belongs to him who parises himself.—Finnegans Wake (155)'Signor Yoyce' now became 'Monsieur Joyce.' With the arrival in ParisJoyce's private life was suddenly a public concern; his gambols in Triesteand Zurich over, he adopted a somber, restrained manner more expresslythan ever before. While other writers practiced their mors, he measuredhis silences. The new move, like the previous wanderings, was not easyfor his children; almost the only continuity in their lives, besides theirparents, was the habit they kept up in Paris of speaking Italian together.Giorgio, over six feet tall, was now fifteen, and had completed hisschooling; it was uncertain what he would do next. He had a notion ofstudying medicine but knew no French. 1When a friend asked Joyce ifhe were not concerned about his son's situation, he replied, 'I'm sopreoccupied with my own that I have no time to think about his.' 2Actuallyhe did think about Giorgio, but by fits and starts, and in Parismanaged later to obtain for him a position in a bank; then, rememberinghis own dismal experience, he sympathized with Giorgio's dislike of it.Lucia was thirteen, with a beautiful oval face marred slightly by crossedeyes, over which she already felt undue concern, i do not know what todo about my daughter,' Joyce confessed to John Quinn. 3She had sufferedmost from the family's frequent displacements, but as yet she didnot show any special oddity of behavior. Both children were heavily influencedby their father, but both spoke up boldly to him. Lucia, becauseof his practice of using mild exclamations, teased him by calling him'L'Esclamadore,' 4while Giorgio liked to display in argument an obstinacyof the same weave as his father's, informing him for example thatthe greatest novelist was Dostoevski, the greatest novel Crime and Punishment.* His father said only that it was a queer title for a book whichcontained neither crime nor punishment. 5* 'J ane Austen named my children,' Joyce said, 'Sense and Sensibility.'485