The original story is set in Dublin and on June 16 every year, the town stops while Dubliners retrace the route Bloom took through Dublin's various pubs and houses of ill-repute. Everywhere the Irish have settled (including Melbourne), Bloomsday is celebrated. It usually involves Guinness and readings from the book.
I'm not sure what Daniel will be doing tonight but my guess is that it will involve Guinness and a toast to the greatest writer in the English language. Here's to you, James.
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Another interesting fact about Ulysses is the copyright ran out last year meaning it can be read in public now without having to pay royalties! I can't wait for Roff Christmas!
Grant
Meshuggah, Grant, meshuggah.
The truffles are in! Thanks to you and Julia for hosting us while in Melbourne.
Another interesting fact about Ulysses is...... nothing.
Harry
11.300am? You're up early, Harry...
Uncle Grant
James Joyce's great Irish puzzle was to cross Dublin without passing a pub. Who wants to solve that one?
I'll give it a try. Imagine Bloomsday in Dublin - what an adventure.
Just because someone writes a lot of words doesn't make them the greatest writer in the English language. By that logic, a person who speaks a lot of words would be the greatest orator in the English language. And I'm not prepared to accept that Barnaby Joyce is the greatest orator in the English language. Top 10, maybe...
DSR.
Yes Grant, 11:30 Am is an early time to wake up and actually fix something, not just write about it
Agreed, I can’t in good conscious justify Barnaby Joyce any higher than 8th!
Nick
I played Rugby against Barnaby. He was pretty good. An angry number 8. Did JJ ever take it up stongly one off the ruck? The defence rests.
James only had one eye. Barnaby is very one-eyed. Maybe there is a relationship.
James' only connection with sport was that the second review of Ulysses to appear in an English-language newspaper was in "The Sporting Times". Under the headline, "Scandal", it said, "Joyce is a writer of tallent but he had ruled out all the elementary decencies of life and dwells appreciatively on things that sniggering louts of schoolboys guffaw about." As the paper was mostly devoted to horses and football, Joyce was amused.
(Davis, SG, James Joyce, London, 1975 pp 246-247)
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