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In Ulysses By James Joyce Is There A Random Word "enter"

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ohmer | 23:40 Thu 14th Nov 2013 | Science
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I've been told that Joyce was reciting Ulysses to a secretary who was under instructions to write down everything he said. During reciting he was disturbed by a knock at the door where he replied "enter" This resulted in the random word of "enter" being included in the text. Having read/crawled through the book with my will for life diminishing, can anyone confirm if it is true or is it a myth. (I didn't read it for this purpose)
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If there was it has been edited out of the version in which google searched on my behalf.
According to Richard Ellmann's biography of Joyce, quoted at http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/anecdtes/c20/joyce.htm, it was "Come in", not "Enter", in Finnegans Wake, not Ulysses, as dictated to Samuel Beckett.

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