Bloomsday 101

[kotori]

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

It's only a week away! Is everyone getting psyched? Can you stand the wait? It's worse than Christmas.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Will you be attending any all-day readings?

 

[kotori]

I'm going to try, though not for the whole day, of course.

 

[Equinoxe]

Are you planning on dressing up? Your finest Edwardian-era clothes?

 

[marshalt]

what the fuck are you babbling about?

 

[SweetBrie]

what the fuck are you babbling about?

^^^what he said.

 

[kotori]

Are you planning on dressing up? Your finest Edwardian-era clothes?

If I'm going to Paddy Dignam's funeral, I should--it's only respectful.

I like to think about all the things that happen "off-stage" as it were. What did Bloom say to Mrs. Dignam before he rested on Sandymount Strand? Did it have any effect on what happend next when he saw Gertie and he pals?

 

[LukkyKnight]

And what about Naomi?

 

[marshalt]

If I'm going to Paddy Dignam's funeral, I should--it's only respectful.

I like to think about all the things that happen "off-stage" as it were. What did Bloom say to Mrs. Dignam before he rested on Sandymount Strand? Did it have any effect on what happend next when he saw Gertie and he pals?

That just made it ten times more confusing...

 

[landslider]

Prefer Joyce Kilmer...

 

[LukkyKnight]

Prefer Joyce Kilmer...

Now by what whim of wanton chance
Do radiant eyes know sombre days?
And feet that shod in light should dance
Walk weary and laborious ways?

But rays from Heaven, white and whole,
May penetrate the gloom of earth;
And tears but nourish, in your soul,
The glory of celestial mirth.

The darts of toil and sorrow, sent
Against your peaceful beauty, are
As foolish and as impotent
As winds that blow against a star.

 

[Equinoxe]

what the fuck are you babbling about?

Bloomsday is a secular holiday on the 16th of June, it sometimes involves pub crawling if that makes you feel any more at ease with it.

If I'm going to Paddy Dignam's funeral, I should--it's only respectful.

I should say so!

I like to think about all the things that happen "off-stage" as it were. What did Bloom say to Mrs. Dignam before he rested on Sandymount Strand? Did it have any effect on what happend next when he saw Gertie and he pals?

That is half the fun though isn't it? Imagining what goes on when you're not apprised of what's going on.

I need to read that book again, it's been a while.