[Industrialblog,
June 17, 2004]
Missed Bloomsday
Damn! And I meant to go to Dublin for the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that Leopold Bloom wandered around Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. Bloomsday was June 16, 1904; thus, the 100th anniversary was yesterday. Not only did I forget to go to Dublin, I forgot to do an anniversary post. Terribly sorry to all those loyal Joyceans.
BBC published a funny summary of Ulysses here. I've only made it one-quarter of the way through, and mostly I've been blown away by the language. Just knocked out by the technique. Which is a big part of the point: It's meant to be, as one person put it, all the possible ways of telling a story, and several quite impossible ways, too. The actual content is surprisingly warmhearted -- a cuckolded, socially awkward salesman wandering around Dublin can serve as a hero of an epic story just as well as an Ithacan king who contended with monsters and gods.
BBC published a funny summary of Ulysses here. I've only made it one-quarter of the way through, and mostly I've been blown away by the language. Just knocked out by the technique. Which is a big part of the point: It's meant to be, as one person put it, all the possible ways of telling a story, and several quite impossible ways, too. The actual content is surprisingly warmhearted -- a cuckolded, socially awkward salesman wandering around Dublin can serve as a hero of an epic story just as well as an Ithacan king who contended with monsters and gods.
if I want to read about bowel movements and masturbation, Hustler takes less time.
j/k
Yes, but Hustler never writes about the "snot-green sea", mlaff.
Next week on Ulysses...will our hero be master of his domain? Don't miss it!