In Honor of Bloomsday

Posted on June 16, 2005 by sheila

Many snippets below. More to come.

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9 Responses to In Honor of Bloomsday

  1. Ceci says:
    June 16, 2005 at 9:51 am

    Your enthusiasm and passion for Joyce are so contagious, Sheila! Of course I couldn’t help myself so I had to have “Ulysses”. I am expecting its arrival in Buenos Aires sometime during June.

    I sincerely HOPE I will prove worthy of the book. It will be a huge challenge. It will probably take me years to read, but as you quoted somewhere on your site (and I paraphrase loosely): it took Joyce seven years to write it so why should a reader need less time to read it?

  2. red says:
    June 16, 2005 at 9:58 am

    Ceci – don’t worry about being “proven worthy”. Try to just enjoy the language. It’s quite a romp. And like Joyce said: “I swear, on my honour as a gentleman, there isn’t one serious word in it.”

    ha! Enjoy!!

  3. beth says:
    June 16, 2005 at 10:30 am

    …and another day in which you singlehandedly fill up entire pages on my kinja…

  4. red says:
    June 16, 2005 at 10:33 am

    Oh shit, man. sorry. I forget about you Kinja people when I go nuts.

  5. Emily says:
    June 16, 2005 at 11:03 am

    I think I’m going to write a long, angry post about how everybody who “gets” James Joyce is just a lying, pretentious jerk. For old times sake. Is that okay with you, Sheila? ;)

  6. red says:
    June 16, 2005 at 11:10 am

    Ah yes, good times, good times. I had to scream at that person! “Read another fucking blog if you find me so pretentious and if you cannot BELIEVE that I choose to write about Joyce and not Abu Gharib!” Strangely enough, that person has never been back. Hm. Wonder why.

  7. beth says:
    June 16, 2005 at 12:13 pm

    no need to apologize. i don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing.

  8. red says:
    June 16, 2005 at 12:16 pm

    Well, I’m not even halfway done. Today is a blitzkrieg. It pleases me.

    the Kinja-thing is something I am not familiar with (member I asked you about it – at one point) – and so I have no idea what this whole thing looks like to Kinja people.

    Onward! REJOYCE, REJOYCE.

  9. red says:
    June 16, 2005 at 12:35 pm

    And not “necessarily” a bad thing?

    HA.

    Love that “necessarily” in there. I wouldn’t care if anyone did think it was a bad thing, and believe me. They have. Not sure why … for whatever reason, it just BOTHERED them that I went so ballistic on Bloomsday.

    One person thought I was a snob. (Which basically means: “I haven’t read the book, and so I need to denigrate it.”)

    Another person thought I was putting my head in the sand because: WHAT ABOUT ABU GHARIB?

    It was truly strange. Like: if you PAY me to write about Abu Gharib, I will. But this stuff here is FOR ME and I do it FOR FREE.

    It was so weird.

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