Caroline Pfliger is the Literary Quiz o' the Day winner with her speedy response to the literary significance of June 16th. See the entry from Wikipedia below...
Good on'ya Caroline! (Irish slang for "nice job)
Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin, Ireland, and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses. 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.
MCC post script:
I had the good fortune to be in Dublin five years ago today for the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. I purchased a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses (see photo above) and read 150 pages of it last summer (It's 932 pages long). I have decided to read 100 pages each Bloomsday until I am finished. At the rate I am going, it will take 9 years. Yikes...
I've read 50 pages between last night and this morning, and if I get really hooked, I may just push through until my eyes and brain get crossed with Joyce's stream-of-consciousness writing. If you look closely at the edge of Ulysses, you can see green sticky notes, indicating words I need to define. This is your teacher setting a good example :)
Happy Bloomsday and happy reading!!
Good on'ya Caroline! (Irish slang for "nice job)
Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin, Ireland, and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses. 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.
MCC post script:
I had the good fortune to be in Dublin five years ago today for the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. I purchased a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses (see photo above) and read 150 pages of it last summer (It's 932 pages long). I have decided to read 100 pages each Bloomsday until I am finished. At the rate I am going, it will take 9 years. Yikes...
I've read 50 pages between last night and this morning, and if I get really hooked, I may just push through until my eyes and brain get crossed with Joyce's stream-of-consciousness writing. If you look closely at the edge of Ulysses, you can see green sticky notes, indicating words I need to define. This is your teacher setting a good example :)
Happy Bloomsday and happy reading!!
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