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   *OB-B*E!!!---!!!!!!!!! to Bobby Farouk   
   Re: Happy 100th Bloomsday   
   17 Jun 04 08:28:16   
   
   From: keepontruckingbyrobertcrumb@fhfhfhfhfhfh.com   
      
   "Bobby Farouk"  wrote in message   
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   > "ROB-B*E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  wrote   
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   > > > Wish I could be in Dublin....   
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   > Isn't it grand to live in a world where Bloomsday is celebrated?   
      
   Yes.   
      
      
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   > NPR did a nice, long piece on Ulysses this afternoon.  Some may argue tax   
   > bucks should not fund a leftist media, but it felt good to have my taxes   
   > help a radio program honor Leopold Bloom.   
   >   
   > There is a poster in my bedroom commemorating the release of the correct   
   > text edition (what year was that?).  Whenever I am sprawled in one of my   
   > black moods and contemplating the worse, I can look at that and realize   
   the   
   > thing I'll miss most when I die will be the loss of good books to read.   
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   Yeah I know what you mean: no man can work in the dark.   
      
      
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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