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Happy Bloomsday! Today is Bloomsday! A day celebrated by all fans of the works of James Joyce's Ulysses. It is the day on which the fictional events of Ulysses take place.
Scholars usually get together and do pub crawls and marathon readings and things as well as dress up like the characters in the book I guess. Academics are really just a bunch of fams. 
This year scholars are doing something different. They are celebrating by suing the estate of James Joyce for the right to quote from Joyce's works! 
The Joyce estate, run singlehandely (and some say dictatorially) by Joyce's grandson Stephen James Joyce (he insists on the "James"), is notoriously unfriendly to scholars and others who want to make use of Joyce's works. (I believe that Kate Bush had a run in with the estate when she wanted to base a song of hers on Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the book.) So far, none of SJJ's claims have been tested in court, scholars and publishers have all just quietly acquiesced to the estate's demands. So we'll see how this pans out. Happy Bloomsday to all, and to all a good day! 
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There was a very good piece in the June 19th issue of The New Yorker about all this...
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/ | |
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2the9s said: Today is Bloomsday! A day celebrated by all fans of the works of James Joyce's Ulysses. It is the day on which the fictional events of Ulysses take place.
Scholars usually get together and do pub crawls and marathon readings and things as well as dress up like the characters in the book I guess. Academics are really just a bunch of fams.
This year scholars are doing something different. They are celebrating by suing the estate of James Joyce for the right to quote from Joyce's works!
The Joyce estate, run singlehandely (and some say dictatorially) by Joyce's grandson Stephen James Joyce (he insists on the "James"), is notoriously unfriendly to scholars and others who want to make use of Joyce's works. (I believe that Kate Bush had a run in with the estate when she wanted to base a song of hers on Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the book.) So far, none of SJJ's claims have been tested in court, scholars and publishers have all just quietly acquiesced to the estate's demands. So we'll see how this pans out. Happy Bloomsday to all, and to all a good day! When I was out at lunchtime I saw a crowd of Bloomers (bloomers ? bloomsday celebrants, whatever they call themselves) and one of them was reading from Ulysses. Does this mean they were breaking the law ? Naughty people. 
Happy Bloomsday one and all! Lemmy, Bowie, Prince, Leonard. RIP. |
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Freespirit said: hi Julie!  love your new avatar!  | |
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IrresistibleB1tch said: Freespirit said: hi Julie! love your new avatar! It is so me. | |
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2the9s said: FINE i take my BLOOMS back then | |
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Happy you bore me day, 2the9s!  ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect, it means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections... unknown | |
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Geek. | |
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and you call me a dork for getting excited about New York City's Annual Salsa Congress?
i've never read Ulysses....but now that there is a holiday attached to it, i think i might.   | |
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LleeLlee said: Geek.
Be quiet, Valis-groupie. | |
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JasmineFire said: and you call me a dork for getting excited about New York City's Annual Salsa Congress?
That's because you are. This changes NOTHING! i've never read Ulysses....but now that there is a holiday attached to it, i think i might.
Read it. Live it. Blog about it. | |
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Screw you all.
(Except for Mach and AsylumUtopia.  )
If Dan was here he would be all over this thread like the quasi-literati he is. 
U.P. Edit [Edited 6/16/06 15:07pm] | |
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2the9s said: Read it. Live it. Blog about it. I KNOW you will  VOTE....EARLY | |
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DiminutiveRocker said: 2the9s said: Read it. Live it. Blog about it. I KNOW you will | |
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2the9s said: Screw you all.
oh yeah?? well screw you! |
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