Bloomsday June 16 2009

June 16 is the day Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin in Ulysses, and is celebrated as such around the world. In Miami, John Martin's Pub has a party of some sort. Since not that many people read Ulysses anymore, I offer some tidbits of James Joyce, his work and comments on same. Here's from a professor's blog, a bit clipped from The Guardian about the racy parts of Ulysses in Molly Bloom's Penelope chapter that ends the work. http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=13666

Here's Ulysses free, at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm

And here's their free audio book of Dubliners: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7872

Here's the last line of "Araby" ---it blew my mind years ago:

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

The James Joyce Centre: http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/

Here's Joyce himself reading from Finnegans Wake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc

An Animation of James Joyce reading some of Ulysses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcgyu61pzzs&feature=related