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[Aetat. 50-53] J O Y C E 6 6 ?commentary on the inner lives of men and women.' His final words puthis view neatly and pungently:I am quite aware that owing to some of its scenes 'Ulysses' is a ratherstrong draught to ask some sensitive, though normal, persons to take. Butmy considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many placesthe effect of'Ulysses' on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowheredoes it tend to be aphrodisiac.'Ulysses' may, therefore, be admitted into the United States. 81The verdict was at once telephoned to Bennett Cerf at Random House,and within ten minutes he had the typesetters at work on the book. Therewas some fear of another piracy, so the first one hundred copies werepublished to secure copyright in January 1934, 82and the rest followed inFebruary, Joyce's pet month. By coincidence, as Morris L. Ernst noted, 83the prohibition law was repealed during the same week that the Ulysses .decision was announced, and a general shift in moral standards seemedconfirmed by the two events.News of Woolsey's decision reached Joyce by cable, and was soonspread over Paris. The telephone kept ringing as friends called to congratulateJoyce. Lucia, exasperated by the noise of her father's fame,abruptly cut the telephone wires. They were repaired and she cut themagain. Reporters tried to obtain a statement from Joyce, and he authorizedPaul Leon to say simply, 'Mr. Joyce findsthe judge to be not devoidof a sense of humour.' But on December 20 he sent his friend Currantwelve bottles of Clos S. Patrice, 1920, rouge, and then commentedtriumphantly on the Woolsey decision: 'Thus one half of the Englishspeaking world surrenders. The other half will follow.'* 84Lucia was now receiving psychiatric treatment, but without success.She continued to upset family and friends by her disconcerting bluntness,which sometimes struck home with mad insight. Her father listened toher always with respect, and when she concocted a story of having beenseduced by all the young men who visited him, he sent them all away,even a Dublin bachelor, Thomas McGreevy, of exemplary piety and almostnotorious chastity, who was deeply offended. This display of paternalgullibility did not appease Lucia, who ran away from home in January1934, and was persuaded to return only by threats of policeintervention. Incidents of this kind had become numerous; yet Joycemaintained his insulation against what they implied, and continued desperatelyto treat his daughter as a slightly confused but on the wholetypical young woman. Clinging to a conviction that a change of surroundingsmight cure her, he wrote to Stanislaus to ask if she might visitTrieste. But before his brother could reply, Lucia upset the birthday party* In anticipation of the decision, Joyce had written to Harriet Weaver two years before, 'Isuppose England will follow suit as usual a few years later. And Ireland rooo years hence.' 85