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| From | Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.lang |
| Subject | Re: Bloomsday (16 June) |
| Date | 2024-06-17 09:27 +1200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <v4nlbf$80f4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <v4l9mr$3mnvm$1@dont-email.me> <v4lcqa$3mt2j$5@dont-email.me> |
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. >> *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.
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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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