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wouldn't you love some sax by the fire?

Reading "Ulysses" for class. Loving the hell out of it, and the various critical commenatries (Umberto Eco wrote one... mmmmm...)

(More detail: the class is JUST "Ulysses", and i'm at the end of it... so i've got a paper due in three days. It'll be fun to trace my academic development through posts on this board... Joyce went through the same Dante obsession i went through two years ago, which is helpful)

Anyway, is anybody going to any Bloomsday things? I'm going to a pub with some friends... and its coming up

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Originally posted by The Lord of Nothings:
It'll be fun to trace my academic development through posts on this board... Joyce went through the same Dante obsession i went through two years ago, which is helpful)

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hey, i'm reading Dante right now! picked up the Divine Comedy cuz i've been meaning to read it forever. so far it's awesome!

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Anyway, is anybody going to any Bloomsday things? I'm going to a pub with some friends... and its coming up

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i am!! i've been going to Bloomsday festivities in Toronto for about 4 years now. it's always an amazingly fun time.

Closest bloomsday thing is a four or five hour drive from me.

My life's goal has been to get through Finnegan's Wake. Maybe I'll just spend every June 16th working on that. Surely after a couple of years I'll get through it that way....

heh, yeah...i've never managed Finnegans Wake cover-to-cover either. every so often i pick it up and dip in, tho, and it's always entertaining. someday i plan to sit down with it and a notebook and figure the motherfucker out, tho!! seriously!

Have you bought any of the key guides to it? I thought about it for a while, but decided I wouldn't let myself until AFTER I've read it all the way through first.

when i was doing a project on Joyce back in high school (my teacher suggested him, but with the warning that half the people who read Joyce become hopelessly obsessed with him; and it was true!) i took one of the keys out of the library...i think Anthony Burgess wrote one! i do have some basic idea of what the Wake is about, but mostly just from my own reading and from studying Joyce in school and stuff. but most of it remains an utter mystery!

I checked out the Joseph Campbell one a few years ago and started making copious notes in the book. But then I felt bad about doing that. So I swore off any of the keys until I myself read it.

I hadn't known about the Burgess one. I'll have to look for it, someday.


(and, I've been looking for an excuse to take a day off and to use up my floating holiday. Just put in a request for june 16th. )

(whoo hoo! I just got the 16th off. )

(ack! I'm so excited. I just requested a video travelogue of Dublin. It should be in in a few days.)

yay! congratulations! you couldn't have picked a better vacation day.

i just got some sad Bloomsday news, tho...i thought i would be writing an article for a local newspaper about the Bloomsday Centennial, but they already got someone else to do it. sucky.

You should write it anyways and post it here!


I'm trying to figure out how to best celebrate the day. I could read Finnegan's Wake, but I suppose Ulysses would be more appropriate. I'm having the Dublin video coming over, I'll buy a Dublin map to do some route-tracing .... would Darby O'Gill and the Little People be a stretch of the imagination? Also will stock up on Guinness. Hrm. I should have a National Hour of Ironing for all my Irish Linen.... (needed to be done anyways). Maybe a Joyce biography? *rubs hands* This is going to be much fun.

And, yay! We have a dvd on Irish writers! *puts hold on that*

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Originally posted by aitapata:
You should write it anyways and post it here!

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heh, thanks. maybe i will. we'll see.

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I'm trying to figure out how to best celebrate the day. I could read Finnegan's Wake, but I suppose Ulysses would be more appropriate. I'm having the Dublin video coming over, I'll buy a Dublin map to do some route-tracing .... would Darby O'Gill and the Little People be a stretch of the imagination? Also will stock up on Guinness. Hrm. I should have a National Hour of Ironing for all my Irish Linen.... (needed to be done anyways). Maybe a Joyce biography? *rubs hands* This is going to be much fun.

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Guinness is, of course, a necessity. is there a beachfront you could go walk along?

oh, i know! for breakfast have a fried pork kidney, and for lunch have a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of Burgandy.

pork kidney?


ew. Vegetarian. I did find a recipie for soda bread, so I'll try to make that.

We do have waterfront, but it would be ocean, not river... but I won't tell if you don't tell.

My best friend said if she has no appointments that day, she'll join me. So excited.

hee. i don't eat pork either. or gorgonzola. but i find Burgandy goes well with some nice feta!

I've got lots of seafronts, but i left 'snotgreen seas" back in the States... its all clear blue water here.

There's so many famous Joyceans that it makes doing research fun-- Sam Beckett (Joyce's former secretary), Umberto Eco, Robert Anton Wilson...

I suggest using the internet for help with 'Wake', since many people think of it as a hypertext novel

all my friends have abandoned me.

for various reasons, i might have to go to Bloomsday all by myself this year. my friends have always come with me before, but they're either out of town, out of the country entirely, or otherwise engaged. bleargh!

LoN and Cobalt, you may be interested in this book that came out last month. I'm thinking of picking up a copy tonight.

i bought that book a couple of weeks ago, actually!! i saw it at my bookstore and picked it up immediately. really interesting and fun!!