Bloom's Day, not Joyce's Day

Giovanni Boccaccio, born on June 16, 1313,
after a full life died on December 21, 1375.
Leopold Bloom, though, born in 1866, 
has been an immortal since June 16, 1904,
as he recently explained to Giovanni.
Otherwise, instead of Bloom's Day 
 today Joyce's Day would be celebrated, wouldn't it?
But what would Joyce be without Bloom?
A Nothing.
;-)

What did Mr. Bloom's lovely wife Molly say again?

"I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes." 

Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce & Beckett

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)

Bloomsday Dialogue

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

Bloomsday 

Ulyssses 

James Joyce

Laughing Lhursday* – Pitch 'n' Putt

As tomorrow James Joyce will – not would! – celebrate his 142nd birthday, and as today is Laughing Lhursday, I think it is about time to once again post this glorious encounter of him and Samuel Beckett.

 James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)


* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Another Bloomsday

Sláinte.

 

Our Civilisation

"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Beers & Books CCXXVI – Bloomsday

June 16th, Bloomsday.
But which one?
The 118th!
Well, but had "Ulysses" not been published
in 1922, thus one hundred years ago,
there would not be any.
Therefore rather the 100th.
Whereas Flann O'Brien
after the umpteenth pint of stout
might prattle:
It's the 68th.

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Ulysses

Leopold Bloom

Bloomsday

140 Years of Joyce

Joyce, 1922,
photo taken by Man Ray.

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Beers & Books XLVIII – James Joyce

"Is there any chance of a drink itself?"

from Dubliners,
Ivy Day in the Commitee Room

 James Joyce (2 February 1881 – 13 January 1941)

The master's voice again – Finnegans Wake

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

"Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk."

Finnegans Wake

The master himself

James Joyce reading an excerpt from the Aeolus episode. Recorded in 1924.

Those were the days – 16 June, 1954

Bloomsday

Ulysses

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

106 Years old Dubliners

John Banville * 8 December 1945

Carlo Gébler * 21 August 1954

Will Self *26 September 1961

Dubliners first published 14 June, 1914

Laughing Lhursday* with Joyce and Beckett

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Dubliners

James Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941

Dubliners – first published June 15, 1914

1. The Sisters 0:19 2. An Encounter 18:29 3. Araby 36:29 4. Eveline 50:02 5. After the Race 1:00:32 6. Two Gallants 1:14:37 7. The Boarding House 1:37:42 8. A Little Cloud 1:53:53 9. Counterparts 2:23:28 10. Clay 2:46:23 11. A Painful Case 3:01:20 12. Ivy Day in the Committee Room 3:23:20 13. A Mother 3:55:04 14. Grace 4:21:02 15. The Dead 5:07:57

136

I am late to the party.
Happy 136th!

James Joyce *2 February 1882

Bloomsday, not Joyceday

Thus spake Leopold:
If it were to honour Joyce
it would be Joyceday.

Bloomsday

135

"I am today
what I established yesterday."

am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Mr. Bloom's tiny Gratification

It's not Joyceday.

The Cats of Copenhagen

copyright issue
for greedy cats of Dublin.
Fuck the Joyce estate.

James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)