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futuremouse
06/17/09

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U.P.:up
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Tremonius
06/17/09

@futuremouse: Have yet to realize the cause of libel in that postcard. One of many mysteries I'm unable to ravel.
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sakade
06/16/09

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Bloomsday Quiz over at The Guardian: [www.guardian.co.uk]
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i'm a bottle
06/16/09

@sakade: You scored 8 out of a possible 16

Joyce spent about seven years working on Ulysses. The same amount of time could probably see you getting a decent score. With luck.

I'm pathetic.
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contains_hot_liquid
06/17/09

@i'm a bottle: The quiz had more to do with Ellman's book than anything Joyce wrote, if you that makes you reconsider.
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sakade
06/17/09

@i'm a bottle: I got the same score! Apparently I'm a little rusty. Also, I never read Finnegan's Wake so...
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i'm a bottle
06/17/09

@contains_hot_liquid: I read and love Ulysses, but there are only two questions dealing with it. The rest are all biographical:--I imagine that's what Ellman's book pertains to.
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Tremonius
06/17/09

@i'm a bottle: I had the same response to my 5. The quiz was more on Joyce than Ulysses, and I know much less about the former.
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jasonelias
06/16/09

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Looks like Michael Franks.
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Mama Penguino
06/16/09

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If I could caption this photo, I'd have a thought bubble coming out of Joyce's head that says, "Strike a pose!" and Sylvia's would say, "Get a fucking job you wallet-plundering ass-freak!"
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contains_hot_liquid
06/17/09

@Mama Penguino: Her: "I love you."

Him: "She loves me."
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Tremonius
06/17/09

@contains_hot_liquid: Or:

Her: I love you.

He: So do I.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
06/16/09

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Dublin: Dubh Linn: Black Pond

(If you can't delight, might as well teach)
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
06/16/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

No mention of Gawker in Ulysses. Closest we've got is "Gawky"

"Lipoti Virag, basilicogrammate, chutes rapidly down through the chimneyflue and struts two steps to the left on gawky pink stilts. He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment. In his left eye flashes the monocle of Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell. On his head is perched an Egyptian pshent. Two quills project over his ears.)"

This is a fun way to picture the bloggers here.
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Tremonius
06/17/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: "This is a fun way to picture the bloggers here."

Another, from I believe that same episode.

THEODORE PUREFOY (In fishing cap and oilskin jacket.) He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature.
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Tremonius
06/16/09

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Anybody actually read this, ah, classic? I did, in my twenties, but that was in Texas and, besides, the Internets weren't invented yet. I tried again recently when I saw the movie The Brothers Bloom, which was a third take on the old myth.

What I liked about the novel is how inadequate was everyone in their parts. Just like reality teevee.

Can anybody today even contemplate wading through the self-indulgent delirium of Episode 14 - Oxen of the Sun? Back in the Beat era, we were all bop prosody anarchists, but now, I tire easily.

It was a series of meetings by men, with few women, in pubs. They were much more literate than my set, but still technically alcoholics, and anti-Semites, most of them. Spoiler Alert: An older guy goes home at the end of a long day with a young man, and the old guy's wife fantasizes about the new blood. Then they make a teevee program out of it: Leave it to Beaver.
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Tremonius
06/16/09

@Tremonius: My favorite Ulysses reader shot.

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Tremonius
06/16/09

@Tremonius: Sorry. Didn't take.

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forwardmotion
06/16/09

@Tremonius: Yes, I have read it several times, the first time in college right after taking an Irish history course and reading the Ellman bio. The background helped.
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Tremonius
06/16/09

@forwardmotion: Yes, Irish history would be helpful, as would familiarity with mythology. The first time through I was in my twenties, and it was exactly like some of my trips to Mexico those years. A long cavalcade of exotic acts, most you only understand slightly in passing. And then I was pleased to read a review of the book as art in one of the weeklies, and the author of that piece referred to Joyce's ` well-worded obscurities' like "met him pike hoses frillies for Raul?" Those were not obscure at all (Bloom's line of thought while shopping for a new romance for his Penelope), so, if the reviewer thought so, then maybe I wasn't so lost as I thought I was.

That Episode 14 mired me this time, but good. I think, I'm 66, and there's lots besides a blizzard of the bizarre I haven't read yet.

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contains_hot_liquid
06/17/09

@Tremonius: Hey, it's a book of thoughts. A great book, though, and like all great books a thing of infinite permutations. So it changes from day to day. Read it again, maybe in twelve years or ten. Don't go too fast - an episode every day or two and linger on =the best parts. Reread them. Your thoughts will abound. Obscuranties come and go like parts of potted meat. You will smile from ear to fucking ear.
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contains_hot_liquid
06/17/09

@contains_hot_liquid: I have had my pint.
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Tremonius
06/17/09

@contains_hot_liquid: I'll go back, indeed I will. But one interlude has been a confusion for me these forty years and more. The one beginning:

-- Two Dublin vestals, Stephen said, elderly and pious, have lived fifty and fiftythree years in Fumbally's lane.

-- Where is that? the professor asked.

-- Off Blackpitts.

And ending with

-- And settle down on their striped petticoats, peering up at the statue of the onehandled adulterer.

-- Onehandled adulterer! the professor cried. I like that. I see the idea. I see what you mean.

I don't. And never have.
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contains_hot_liquid
06/16/09

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Preparatory to anything else, I am going to have a pint.
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RhubarbPlatypus
06/16/09

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I want to stand in doorways like that.
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CaptainFantastic
06/17/09

@RhubarbPlatypus: No loitering.
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Calraigh
06/16/09

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Thanks for this, Richard!

Just home after a luverly day spent in Howth and this is pretty cool. Stately Buck Whaleys were downed by the mulitude. Offal was consumed. Laughs were had and stupid costumes worn by all.
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James Tiberius Quirk
06/17/09

@Calraigh: Sniffle, I grew up in Howth, on Church St. my feet might have been in the LES last night but my head was definitely in Dublin.
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Calraigh
06/18/09

@James Tiberius Quirk: Awww. Only saw your comment now. It's still lovely. Honestly, it's impossible to know once you've drunk an entire bar dry but people kept saying it, loudly. And in my ear.

The LES is pretty cool too though, all told!
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forwardmotion
06/16/09

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i love him. Happy Bloomsday to all.
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belltolls
06/16/09

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"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves".
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TedSez
06/16/09

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Yes.
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/16/09

@TedSez: I will.
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