Re: Bloomsday (16 June)

        [Say - Yes]


"Une Slave valse nue"


"Sei fein, nie fies"




Bloom has three letters from Martha “in reversed alphabetic
boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels
suppressed) N. IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y.IM” (U 17.1774,
U 17.1774, U 1799-1801). 



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HenHanna <[email protected]> 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  ?

 
> 
> > 
> > *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.