In the Footsteps of Joyce and Bloom

[bloom061604]

By the way, Bloom...how do you plan to observe the upcoming 06/16/04?I keep saying one of these years, Paco, that I'm going to travel to Ireland and retrace James Joyce's footsteps from the Martello tower at Sandycove to Dublin city, an annual event for the faithful. I was in Dublin on Bloomsday 1989 and followed most of Leopold Bloom's odyssey through the city. It was cathartic.

—Bloom

[Anonymous]

I've never been to Dublin but I'm thinking of going this summer for Bloomsday (http://www.rejoycedublin2004.com/).

Awhile back I thought "Henry Flower" would be a good pseudonym for boards like this one. When I tried at Yahoo, someone had beaten me to it. Haven't seen him around, though.

Great OT thread title, by the way. I imagine most English speakers are in the footsteps of Joyce and Bloom, from stately to yes.

[paco]

Second time tonight! The above "Guest" message is from me. Seems one must log in again between panty-wetting and off-topic.

[bloom061604]

Thanks for the link to the website, Paco. I hadn't seen that one. Here are a couple of my favorites:

http://www.TheModernWord.com/joyce
http://www.2street.com/joyce

The following site contains the complete text of "Ulysses", "Finnegans Wake" and the work of hundreds of other authors:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

By the way, according to Brenda Maddox in her book "Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom", Joyce was obsessed with elimination in his personal life, and of course, it pervades his writing. He probably would have enjoyed Sky's site and the panty wetting message board. Imagine the eloquent posts if he were among us (that is, if we could understand them). I envision something like this:

"For we, we have taken our sheet upon her stones where we have hanged our hearts in her trees; and we list, as she bibs us, by the waters of babalong." —Finnegans Wake

—Bloom

P.S. Are you saying you have to log into the panty wetting and off-topic boards separately? I move back and forth between the two on the same login with no problem.

[paco]

Bloom, thanks for the links. They are all new to me and I'm especially happy to see the complete-text site, which I devoutly wish I'd had available at university. A quick search suggests another good Joycean screen name I wish I'd thought of earlier: Pisser Burke.

Nice idea that Joyce would have enjoyed Sky's site (and I can think of a few other sites he'd like). Raises the question of whether any known authors are indeed among us.

paco

PS Rather than logging on upon arriving at the forum index, I'd been reading threads first and logging on only if I wanted to answer. I infer that my logon wasn't "global" enough. From now on, logging on will be the first thing I do.