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678 / A M E S [ 1932-1935 ]success, i thought of writing to the Pope,' she told her father. 'Be carefulof your grammar,' replied her father banteringly, 'he is a learned man.''He's an old dotard,' said Lucia, 'but it is unjust. How long will yourcountry refuse to recognize what you have done?' 'How long indeed?'said her father. Lucia went on, i want to reconcile you. It is time forsome great person of your country to come forward and hold out a handto you and to us.' To which Joyce replied, 'Hear, hear.' But the nextmorning he received a cable from McCormack promising to help George,and the day following, the Irish Times carried a long and not unfriendly124article on Work in Progress." Joyce cherished the secret hope that,when he got out of the dark night of Finnegans Wake, his daughterwould escape from her own darkness. 126Her father wrote Curran, it isterrible to think of a vessel of election as the prey of impulses beyond itscontrol and of natures beneath its comprehension and, fervently as I desireher cure, I ask myself what then will happen when and if she finallywithdraws her regard from the lightning-lit revery of her clairvoyance andturns it upon that battered cabman's face, the world.' 127The news from George was for a time fairly good. McCormack didgive him a little help, and he had several engagements. In Novemberand December he sang on National Broadcasting Company programs,the selections being Irish songs and arias by Mozart and Tchaikowsky.One of the songs was his father's favorite, 'The Brown and the YellowAle,' the other was 'The Salley Gardens.' George's difficulty with suchmaterial came from the fact that his accent was European rather thanIrish. He was nervous but for the moment elated. 128Before each performancehis father sent a cable of encouragement, and after the secondJoyce wrote from Paris to remark on two coincidences: he also had sung'The Salley Gardens' at his first public concert and received two guineas,the same as George's ten-dollar fee. For good measure he reminded hisson that to change from the Banque Nationale de Credit (where Georgehad once worked) to the National Broadcasting Company was merely toalter the order of the initial letters. 129The New Yorker carried an interviewwith George on January 12, 1935, but devoted it chiefly to smalltalk about his father.Although Joyce wrote to his son frequently, he said little about Lucia'scondition, not wishing to burden him and knowing that George was convincedshe could not be cured. Jung was still trying to help her, and, togive the doctor free play, Joyce informed his daughter he was leavingZurich for a month, an announcement she did not take calmly. Actuallyhe remained, at considerable expense, in the Carlton Elite Hotel in Zurich.He was bothered again by 'colitis' (as he diagnosed it) and, in spite* Joyce's friends had other instances to prove Lucia was a Cassandra. So when, a littlelater, Lucia showed Lucie Leon a picture of a coffin with the rubric, 'This is Jim,' MineLeon assumed the reference was to her brother James, who died not long afterwards. 125But Lucia must have had another Jim in mind.