{"id":1164,"date":"2004-06-15T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:02:14","slug":"bloomsday-amen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"From Judge Woolsey: “his locale was Celtic”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In respect to the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.”<\/p>\n

— Judge M. Woolsey in his decision on the “obscenity” in Ulysses, 1933<\/p>\n

Here’s the NY Times article about the decision<\/a>. I love Judge Woolsey.<\/i><\/p>\n

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