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Showing posts with label Leopold Bloom. Show all posts

Sunday, June 16, 2024

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

Friday, June 16, 2017

Bloomsday, not Joyceday

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