From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 16/06/2024 12:49 p.m., HenHanna wrote:   
   >   
   > On 6/15/2024 4:56 PM, Ross Clark wrote:   
   >> "This day celebrates the life and writing of Irish author James Joyce   
   >> (1882-1941), chiefly be(by) 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > there is a pub (with Blue Tiles) that Joyce frequented in Trieste  ?   
      
   Could well be. We were only in Trieste for a couple of hours, and   
   weren't looking for a pub or for Joyceana. I seem to remember a bookshop   
   named after him right at the railway station, but it doesn't seem to be   
   there any more.   
      
   >> *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   
   >   
   >   
   > one theory (or story) is that...  on their first date...   
   >                         Nora went down on Jim... made   
   him really happy.   
   >   
      
   I thought it was a hand job.   
      
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