Bloomsday x100 June 16, 1904 – June 16, 2004
Happy 100th Bloomsday! The 100th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s wandering Dublin day chronicled in James Joyce’s Ulysses – June 16, 1904.
If you’re in the neighborhood, you might want to check out ReJoyce Dublin 2004, though if you’re fortunate enough to be in Dublin, you probably can’t escape the old man today.
Here is a passage from Ulysses, picked at random (p. 685):
Did he attribute this homonymity to information or coincidence or intuition?
Coincidence.Did he depict the scene verbally for his guest to see?
He preferred himself to see another’s face and listen to another’s words by which potential narration was realised and kinetic temperament relieved. . . .Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently engaged his mind?
What to do with our wives.
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