Happy Bloomsday

[SamScribble]

Happy Bloomsday. Happy Bloomsday, Sunny Jim - who by all accounts was sometimes sunny but often not. Happy Bloomsday, everyone.

‘Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.’ etc, etc

 

[Dianthus]

Happy Bloomsday. Happy Bloomsday, Sunny Jim - who by all accounts was sometimes sunny but often not. Happy Bloomsday, everyone.

‘Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.’ etc, etc

Happy Bloomsday!

Are we going to have a pub crawl?

 

[SamScribble]

Happy Bloomsday!

Are we going to have a pub crawl?

Thanks Mine's a Guinness

 

[estragon]

Have a Guinness? In Molly's immortal words, "yes I said oh yes...."

 

[trysail]

What parallel course did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?
Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west: then, at a reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner's place by an inadvertence as far as the farther corner of Temple street, north: then at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.

Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?
Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclisiatical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse.

Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective like and unlike reactions to experience?
Both were sensitive to artistic impressions musical in preference to plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.
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-James Joyce
Ulysses
New York, N.Y. 1982.




The first edition of 1,000 copies saw the light of day in Paris in 1922.

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[SamScribble]

Another fan ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/bo...-flaws-but-Ulysses-is-a-book-that-blooms.html