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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.
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I'm having a nice pork pie and a pint of stout for lunch. What are you doing to celebrate.
 
hello you !!!

we keep missing each other !
I'm having wedges, steamed veggies and some crumbed fish for dinner

all frozen,*sigh*
it's been one of these days

however
I have a very nice cabernot merlot to wash it all down
 
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.
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So gross....
 
from Wiki

Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.

The day involves a range of cultural activities including Ulysses readings and dramatisations, pub crawls and general merriment, much of it hosted by the James Joyce Centre in North Great George's Street. Enthusiasts often dress in Edwardian costume to celebrate Bloomsday, and retrace Bloom's route around Dublin via landmarks such as Davy Byrne's pub. Hard-core devotees have even been known to hold marathon readings of the entire novel, some lasting up to 36 hours. The first celebration took place in 1954, and a major five-month-long festival (ReJoyce Dublin 2004) took place in Dublin between 1 April and 31 August 2004. On the Sunday in 2004 before the 100th "anniversary" of the fictional events described in the book, 10,000 people in Dublin were treated to a free, open-air, full Irish breakfast on O'Connell Street consisting of sausages, rashers, toast, beans, and black and white puddings.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, in Philadelphia, United States, is the home of the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses and celebrates Bloomsday with a street festival including readings, Irish music, and traditional Irish cuisine provided by local Irish-themed pubs.

The Syracuse James Joyce Club holds an annual Bloomsday celebration at Johnston's BallyBay Pub in Syracuse, New York, at which large portions of the book are either read aloud, or presented as dramatizations by costumed performers. The club awards scholarships and other prizes to students who have written essays on Joyce or fiction pertaining to his work. The city is home to Syracuse University, whose press has published or reprinted several volumes of Joyce studies.

In 2004 Vintage Publishers issued yes I said yes I will Yes: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday, edited by Nola Tully. It is one of the few monographs that details the increasing popularity of Bloomsday. The book's title comes from the novel's famous last lines.

In Boston, MA, on the campus of Boston College, a celebration entitled, "Bloomsday Boston 2008: Love Across Boundaries" is planned. The event will include a James Joyce expert speaking on the many aspects of love in the novel including the relationship of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and readings from Ulysses that touch on these elemental forces. A highlight of the evening will be a conversation with notable Bostonians whose love lives extend across boundaries of all kinds. For details, go to http://www.ncacboston.org/present_exhibition.asp

Bloomsday has also been celebrated since 1994 in the Hungarian town of Szombathely, the fictional birthplace of Leopold Bloom's father, Virág Rudolf an emigrant Hungarian Jew. The event is usually centered around the Iseum, the remnants of an Isis temple from Roman times, and the Blum-mansion, commemorated to Joyce since 1997, at 40–41 Fő street, which used to be the property of an actual Jewish family called Blum. Hungarian author László Najmányi in his 2007 novel, The Mystery of the Blum-mansion (A Blum-ház rejtélye) describes the results of his research on the connection between Joyce and the Blum family.
 
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...and yes, she said, Yes.

...and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
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kotori said:
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I adore the Penelope chapter. One long sentence that's not quite a sentence.

As well...

"What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere [sic] of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit" (819).

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way around is the shortest way home" (492).

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Londond: Penguin Books, 1992.
 
fluttertongue said:
I adore the Penelope chapter. One long sentence that's not quite a sentence.

As well...

"What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere [sic] of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit" (819).

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way around is the shortest way home" (492).

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Londond: Penguin Books, 1992.
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Nice. I think my favourite episode is "Sirens"...I like the singing.
 
kotori said:
Ooh, I had a couple of Nathan's Famous for dinner.

How do you feel about franks?
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**sigh** Aren't they awesome? I've never been so wistful over a hotdog before.

kotori said:
BIn Boston, MA, on the campus of Boston College, a celebration entitled, "Bloomsday Boston 2008: Love Across Boundaries" is planned. The event will include a James Joyce expert speaking on the many aspects of love in the novel including the relationship of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and readings from Ulysses that touch on these elemental forces. A highlight of the evening will be a conversation with notable Bostonians whose love lives extend across boundaries of all kinds. For details, go to http://www.ncacboston.org/present_exhibition.asp
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Good heavens this would have been fantastic.

*sad face*
 
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