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| Boccaccio: "Poldy, my friend, you don't have a birthday in Wikipedia, just the year of birth. How cometh?" Bloom: "Boccia, my friend,: Happy Birthday! How cometh you've been dead for 649 years?" Boccaccio: "Aren't we all mortal?" Bloom (smiling softly): "Not all of us". Boccaccio: ? Bloom: "Because June 16th, 1904, I became immortal." |
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375)
Leopold Bloom * 1866
And what a precious gift his immortality was and is.
ReplyDeleteBeing a mere mortal, I can confirm this. ;-)
DeleteCleverly done.
ReplyDeleteI take this as a compliment. Thank you, Mimi.
DeleteUn diàleg que es podria donar ben bé entre ells. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBona tarda, Sean.
As a witness to this conversation, I merely quoted what I heard. You can't make something like that up. ... ;-)
DeleteLa pau de la nit, Paula.