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Happy Bloomsday!! Keep an eye on http://twitter.com/public_t... for posts from Ulysses characters.

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Germaine Greer's "Shakespeare's Wife" in defense of Ann Hathaway: a response to Stephen's grand Shakespeare theory in Scylla & Charybdis?
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."
Don't know how I missed it the first time, but the little hints in the last 2 chapters: could Molly maybe be pregnant? I DEMAND A SEQUEL.
capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop
The subtlety & sweetness of Bloom's relationship w/his daughter: in a long list of things in his desk, a letter she wrote him when v. small:
I love that the book is so its own combo of funny/sincere that Joyce had to make up a word which is itself funny/sincere. JOCOSERIOUS.
in reputable circles -- shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end." -- On Ulysses, TIME, 1923.
"To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words -- many such as are not ordinarily heard
Ladies and gentlemen, I AM FINISHED READING ULYSSES. Def. not done talking about it, tho, never fear.
Finally to Molly's soliloquy! "you sometimes love to wildly when you feel that way so nice all over you you cant help yourself"
Bloom ends in bed w/Molly carried "rereward, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space"
Bloom makes me think of that line from The Virgin Suicides: "What we have here is a dreamer."
Long dreamy sciencey passages about lightyears and extraterrestrial life. Joyce, ilu. Bloom, same goes double.
"His skin, alert, feels her fingertips approach."
Ithaca, the 2nd-to-last-chapter, is done entirely in Q&A form like a catechism. It's strangely addictive. & was apparently Joyce's fav chap!
Interesting to no one but me: Leopold Bloom and I are both exactly 5 feet, 9 and a half inches tall.
Never mentioned Oxen of the Sun! It chronologically mimics the entire history of the English lang. from Anglo-Saxon thru 20th cent. Amazing.
It kind of freaks me out how much I identify with Bloom's stream of consciousness. It's how I think! Am I a Joyce character?