Happy Bloomsday

[RainDog]

This is the day that Leo Bloom walked through Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.

The final lines (the entire chapter is made up of only three sentences) of Ulysses are Leo's wife, Molly's.

"...I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. "

I wonder if we'll ever have an "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" day? Dapper Dan day?

[tigereye]

1. oh, it's today - my sister wanted to do some pubwalking while the folks read

thanks for the reminder!

[khashka]

2. I love that chapter!

Best part of the whole book IMHO.

Happy Bloomsday! Funny thing few people know - he chose that date because it was the date his girlfriend gave him a handjob. LOL!

Might wanna check out Kate Bush's song The Sensual World. She wanted to use that but was not allowed to - so she rewrote it but stuck very close to it.

Khash.

[RainDog]

3. yeah, I had that Kate Bush as a cassette tape

probably still around here somewhere. (I'm sorting out the last 7 years of my life and the twenty (!!) that I've lived where I live now.)

this is also my oldest son's birthday. he's with his dad today but he's already gotten a birthday song from me.

When I was an undergrad, I took a Joyce seminar so we read Ulysses with a Bloomsday Guide. Sometimes the book was set to the music playing in a chapter.

The Dead was always my favorite Joyce work.