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634 JAMES [ 1929-1932 ]apologized for his unpleasant article* of 1924 on Joyce's work, and saidhe had now reconsidered it. Joyce made clear he bore him no ill-will,Gillet wrote him an adulatory letter, 10sand they were soon exchangingdinner invitations, Gillet evincing a disposition to praise not only Ulyssesbut also Finnegans Wake. When Joyce reported this success to AdrienneMonnier, she voiced a floodof 'Extraordinairesf 106 That the Revue desDeux Mondes should consent to admit either of Joyce's recent works intoits canon of great literature was something she had thought impossible.Among Joyce's other visitors of the time were Padraic and Mary Colum.With them Joyce felt friendlier than ever before, although Mary Columoccasionally annoyed him. So one afternoon, after they had gone togetherto hear an experimenter in linguistic theory, Pere Marcel Jousse,Joyce happened to lecture a young American about the technique of themonologue interieur and its origin in Dujardin's Les Lauriers sont coupes.Mary Colum waited until the young man left before rebuking Joyce inher forceful way, 'Haven't you had enough fun with this? Haven't youpulled enough people's legs? And anyway, why deny your indebtednessto Freud and Jung? Isn't it better to be indebted to great originators likethat than to ?' No one had spoken to Joyce in this way for manyyears, and he did not like it. His lips tightened, he moved in his chairwith annoyance and said, i hate women who know anything.' But MaryColum, not to be put down, said, 'No, Joyce, you don't. You like them,and I am going to contradict you about this in print when I get thechance.' He fumed silently for a few moments, then abruptly detachedhimself from his anger and let a half-smile show on his face. Mrs. Columthought she had converted him, but the poem he recited to her a fewdays later about his women friends t was scarcely corroborative evidence:As I was going to Joyce Saint James'I met with seven extravagant dames;Every dame had a bee in her bonnet,With bats from the belfry roosting upon it.And Ah, I said, poor Joyce Saint James,* Even at the time Joyce had not minded Gillet's attack. He wrote Miss Weaver onAugust 29, 1925: 'As regards the article in the R. de D. M. 1 have been planning that forthree years. I tried first the Revue de Paris, then the Revue de France. It does not matteras the R. de D. M. is even better. The tone of the article does not matter much. M Gilletis a son-in-law of M Rene Doumic [the editor]. He suppresses the fact of my havingresurrected M Dujardin which is unfair but everyone knows it. I think it remarkable thatattacks have not been more frequent and bitter.' 104t Joyce objected to Budgen that the female was attempting to usurp all the functions ofthe male except that which is biologically preempted, and even on that, he said, she wascasting jealous, threatening eyes. 'Women write books and paint pictures and composeand perform music. And there are some who have attained eminence in the field ofscientific research. . . . But you have never heard of a woman who was the author of acomplete philosophic system, and I don't think you ever will.' 107But he acknowledgedlater to Carola Giedion-Welcker, 'Throughout my life women have been my most activehelpe rs