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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Bloomsday (16 June)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:27:05 +1200
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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.