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| From | Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> |
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| Newsgroups | sci.lang |
| Subject | Re: Bloomsday (16 June) |
| Date | 2024-06-17 21:01 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ldbffkFquusU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2024-06-16 21:27:05 +0000, Ross Clark said: > On 16/06/2024 12:49 p.m., HenHanna wrote: >> >> On 6/15/2024 4:56 PM, Ross Clark wrote: >>> "This day celebrates the life and writing of Irish author James Joyce >>> (1882-1941), chiefly be(by) retracing the route through Dublin taken by >>> Leonard* Bloom, the central character in _Ulysses_....the action of the >>> novel takes place entirely on a single day: 16 June 1904, which was >>> also the day Joyce first went out with Nora Barnacle, whom he later >>> married." >>> >>> *That's _Leopold_ Bloom! Two gaffes in two days! This book needed an editor. >>> >>> Bloomsday is a real thing. A few years ago I went to a Bloomsday >>> celebration at a local "Irish pub" called the Dogs Bollix. Some >>> professional readings, some amateur singings, and lots of drinkings. >>> Good fun. >>> >>> When I briefly visited Pula, Croatia (at the southern tip of Istria) in >>> 2009, I was surprised to see a life-size image* of JJ, seated at a >>> table outside a local cafe. I knew he had lived in Trieste (which is >>> not far away); but before that, for a few months 1904-5, he had a job >>> in Pula (then called Pola), teaching English at the Berlitz School, >>> mainly to Austro-Hungarian naval officers. >> >> >> there is a pub (with Blue Tiles) that Joyce frequented in Trieste ? > > Could well be. We were only in Trieste for a couple of hours, and > weren't looking for a pub or for Joyceana. I seem to remember a > bookshop named after him right at the railway station, but it doesn't > seem to be there any more. Trieste (or Trst, as the Slovenes call it) was, in 1964, the site of my shortest ever wait for a lift when hitchhiking. The first car that arrived stopped and picked me up. I was on my way from Ljubljana to Milan. I didn't discuss Joyce with the driver. > >>> *I wanted to say "statue", but is it a statue if it's sitting? Sitting >>> on a horse, OK, but sitting at a table, drinking coffee? >>> >>> "While he was in Pola he organised the local printing of his broadsheet >>> The Holy Office, which satirised both William Butler Yeats and George >>> William Russell," >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula >> >> >> one theory (or story) is that... on their first date... >> Nora went down on Jim... made him really happy. >> > > I thought it was a hand job. -- Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.
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Bloomsday (16 June) Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-06-16 11:56 +1200
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-06-15 17:49 -0700
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-06-17 09:27 +1200
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2024-06-17 21:01 +0200
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-30 16:56 +0000
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-06-16 19:22 +0100
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2024-06-17 23:28 +0200
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