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| From | Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.lang |
| Subject | Bloomsday (16 June) |
| Date | 2024-06-16 11:56 +1200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <v4l9mr$3mnvm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
"This day celebrates the life and writing of Irish author James Joyce (1882-1941), chiefly be 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. *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
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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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