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[Aetat. 44-47] J O Y C E 585not be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddrygrammar and goahead plot.' 27He made some effort to bring Poundaround by discussion, but Pound said firmly, 'Nothing would be worthplowing through like this, except the Divine Vision—and I gather it's notthat sort of thing.' In his view the author of Work in Progress was 'inregress.' 28Joyce wrote him a letter which mentioned with indirect reproacha few halfpennies of encouragement' from others, and continuedthe play on Pound's name in a postscript:I forgot to send a little epigram I made after our last conversation, I think,about my new book. So here it is . . .E. P. exults in the extra inchWherever the ell it's foundBut wasn't J. J. a son of a binchTo send him an extra pound?The title I gave it (the epigram) was:Troppa Grossa, San Giacomone! 29Pound's receptivity to innovation had, as he now knew, its limits.There was also news from Trieste, first good then bad. At the beginningof November 1926, Joyce heard from Stanislaus that he was to endhis forty-two years of celibacy by marrying Nelly Lichtensteiger duringthe next year. James promptly sent a gift of money and wished them'Buona fortune' Immediately thereafter he received a sudden sharp30demand for money from his sister Eileen, who was again in Dublin; andthen he heard from Stanislaus that Schaurek had committed suicide.Eileen passed through Paris, still unaware of her husband's death, andJoyce could not bring himself to tell her the ghastly news, which in factshe did not discover until she arrived in Trieste. There she refused tobelieve it, and had her husband's body dug up before she found it credible.After the exhumation she collapsed for three months, 31and Stanislaus,with sporadic help from James, had again to take over the maintenanceof a luckless family.While worried by those family difficulties, Joyce applied himself to thetask of stopping Roth, whose magazine Two Worlds Monthly was rumored,no doubt incorrectly, to be selling 50,000 copies an issue. Hesought out Benjamin Conner, one of the foremost American lawyers inParis, and Conner arranged to start legal action through the firm ofChadbourne, Stanchfield, and Levy in New York, with which he wasassociated. But legal action was bound to be slow, and in the meantimeJoyce conceived the idea of an International Protest against Roth's piracyof his book. Ludwig Lewisohn and Archibald MacLeish, the only lawyerin the Joyce circle, drew up the protest, and then copies of it were sentwith great dispatch to the principal writers all over the world for signature: