Literally speaking - fact of today

The day after getting a new pair of glasses, James Joyce was shown copy of Ulysses hot off the presses. According to others present at this historic moment, the author screamed, "That's not what I wrote. Not at all. This doesn't make any sense," and dashed out of his house in such a rage he ran into a lamp post and broke the glasses. He was wearing the old pair when he wrote Finnegan's Wake. 

Note - this is what happens when you trawl the internet for interesting facts. This one appears to be completely made up by someone called David Lubar...