Re: Bloomsday (16 June)

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  ?


> 
> *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.