From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   "This day celebrates the life and writing of Irish author James Joyce   
   (1882-1941), chiefly be retracing the route through Dublin taken by   
   Leonard* Bloom, the central character in _Ulysses_....the action of the   
   novel takes place entirely on a single day: 16 June 1904, which was also   
   the day Joyce first went out with Nora Barnacle, whom he later married."   
      
   *That's _Leopold_ Bloom! Two gaffes in two days! This book needed an editor.   
      
   Bloomsday is a real thing. A few years ago I went to a Bloomsday   
   celebration at a local "Irish pub" called the Dogs Bollix. Some   
   professional readings, some amateur singings, and lots of drinkings.   
   Good fun.   
      
   When I briefly visited Pula, Croatia (at the southern tip of Istria) in   
   2009, I was surprised to see a life-size image* of JJ, seated at a table   
   outside a local cafe. I knew he had lived in Trieste (which is not far   
   away); but before that, for a few months 1904-5, he had a job in Pula   
   (then called Pola), teaching English at the Berlitz School, mainly to   
   Austro-Hungarian naval officers.   
      
   *I wanted to say "statue", but is it a statue if it's sitting? Sitting   
   on a horse, OK, but sitting at a table, drinking coffee?   
      
   "While he was in Pola he organised the local printing of his broadsheet   
   The Holy Office, which satirised both William Butler Yeats and George   
   William Russell,"   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)