# A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

**by James Joyce** · 1916 · Fiction · Free public-domain eBook

Stephen Dedalus grows from a sensitive child into an aspiring artist, rejecting the constraints of family, religion, and nation.

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## Opening of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

\_“Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.”\_ Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII., 188.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....

His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.

When you wet the bed, first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.

His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano the sailor’s hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:

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