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490 J A M E S [ 19201capacious pocket, and in one way or another the Joyces escaped famine.In spite of financial anxiety and his accustomed plaintiveness, Joyce wasnot entirely displeased with Paris. For one thing, it was a new and headyfeeling to discover he was a leader in a movement. As he wrote to Stanislauson July 25, 1920, 'Odyssey very much in the air here. AnatoleFrance is writing Le Cyclope, G. Faure the musician an opera Penelope.Giraudoux has written Elpenor (Paddy Dignam). Guillaume ApollinaireLes Mamelles de Tiresias. . . . Madam Circe advances regally towardsher completion after which I hope to join a tennis club.'*The day after writing this letter, Joyce went at the suggestion of Poundto call on Fritz Vanderpyl, the jovial, bearded Belgian art critic of LePetit Parisien, whose novel, Marsden Stanton a Paris, had been one ofthe more interesting recent experiments in fiction. Vanderpyl receivedwith his usual lusty amiability the gentleman who, except for his startlingtennis shoes, looked like a professor. After an hour's talk they went for awalk in the Jardin du Luxembourg, a few yards away from Vanderpyl'sflat in the rue Gay-Lussac. There they met a friend of Vanderpyl withwhom they conversed for a time about literature. Then Joyce abruptlypulled Vanderpyl to one side and asked, 'Does your friend know English?''No.' 'Well, can you lend me a hundred francs? Tomorrow is myson's birthday and I want to give him something.' At that time a hundredfrancs ($20, £4) was a not inconsiderable sum, but Vanderpyl, who hadno money with him, obligingly borrowed it from his friend and then lentit to Joyce. 30By afternoon of the following day the money was spent, and Joyce wassitting gloomily in his flatcontemplating his penury when John Rodkerand his wife rang the bell. Rodker was a regular contributor to the Egoistand had begun to publish books on a small hand press. Mrs. Rodkercame in wearing a red cloak which reminded Joyce of the Irish claddaghor shawl and would therefore, he predicted, be lucky for him. And so itproved. Rodker rescued the family from hunger by inviting them all todinner, 31and during dinner made tentative arrangements to print Ulyssesin France, with the financialbacking of the Egoist, and then to publishit in England under his imprint. This business over, Joyce turned theconversation to other subjects. He quizzed Rodker earnestly on whichhorse had won the derby in 1904 (when Rodker was ten); he spoke aboutbooks; he commented that the name Joyce meant the same thing in Englishas Freud in German, a remark he usually left to his friends; and heoverpowered both Rodkers with the one subject he never mentioned, hissense of his mission in art. 32Pinker sent £10 at last, but Joyce nevertheless wrote to Pound on July31 suggesting a series of press notices to proclaim, 'Joyce gets Large Haul.Prompt Pinker Saves Desperate Dedalus. Glut of Greenbacks for Poet in* A reference to his shoes.