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   On 2024-06-16 21:27:05 +0000, Ross Clark said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Trieste (or Trst, as the Slovenes call it) was, in 1964, the site of my   
   shortest ever wait for a lift when hitchhiking. The first car that   
   arrived stopped and picked me up. I was on my way from Ljubljana to   
   Milan. I didn't discuss Joyce with the driver.   
   >   
   >>> *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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