Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes

the place in the book where they usually have the dedications has this printed. Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. I wonder what this means.

I'm sure the last word means art but have know Idea about the others.

The story starts with once upon a time kind of children's tale. there are

lots of lyrics written in the first couple of pages too "oh the wild rose

blossoms on the little green place, oh the the green wothe botheth." i'm

pretty sure this is an Irish folk song because James Joyce is from dublin

so that would make since. The writing so far is very old sounding. It's

actually allot like the writing in J.R.R Tolkien's "the hobit." very light

and playful. there are often little anecdotes throughout the stories.

There is this conversation between Stephen (the main character) and

Nasty Roche (bully) where Roche asks if his father is a magistrate. I can tell

from the context that its supposed to be an insult but I don't understand why.

I have a feeling im not going to understand alot of things in this book.

There are also phrases like "he'd give you a toe in your rump for your self."

I think this translates too; He would kick your @%#. fairly sure.