Evidence for Joyce’s acquaintance with Louis Aragon before the mid-1920s has been largely circumstantial. Sure, they moved in the same circles, counting Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Ezra Pound and John Rodker among their mutuals. (This handsome devil is Aragon in 1925.) Thanks to Mikio Fuse we know that in the summer of 1924 Joyce got his hands on Aragon’s recently published 𝘓𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦. There’s a sprinkling of notes from the collection in one of the early ‘Work in Progress’ notebooks.