Great day out as always.
FOAD
Great thread. A pub featured in Ulysees was in fact owned by a long dead ancestor of mine. Sandycove looks a picture on the television at the moment. A delightful place for a peaceful walk on a beautiful summer’s day. There was no such trivialities such as a World Cup to disturb anybody in 1904.
+1 :lol:
Rename this the ‘sid talks to himself’ thread
Huh?
my thoughts exactly
I wonder if SS was at the Blooms day celebrations in Bruff today
Bruff rivals Galway for contriving festivals it has no connection to. A Joycean tradition was born in Bruff some years ago and has steadfastly refused to die. Bruff also courts visitors interested in the Flight of the Earls following a fanciful mural depicting same despite the town being many hundreds of miles from Donegal. It’s believed that Bruff will soon claim to be the crucible for the Boxer Rebellion in China and use this to launch a Chinese Festival of Lanterns in the ‘grove’ in mid August.
New York.
I got to page 279 a few months ago. Bloomsday has prompted me to continue, I will, one day, finish this book.
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I must admit I was quite surprised to hear AA roadwatch warning of road closures in Bruff due to the Blooms Day festivities. She also advised people to take the Kill-mail-ock road.
I’d be surprised if anyone in Bruff has read Ulysses, fair play to them for making something out of nothing though. I’m sure Clarkey opened early and Fr Joe probably cooked up a Bloomsday breakfast. If only Bruff was mentioned in At Swim - Two Birds, the local Tidy Towns types could have had some substance behind a parade of fools festival through the town, god knows they’d have no end of suitable candidates to take part.
PS fair play to you Fitzy, I’ll assault that ‘Everest’ some day, still trying to finish The Good Soldier Svejk, The Tin Drum and Don Quixote concurrently, I’ve about 200, 50 and 150 pages left respectively on all three. I don’t know why I don’t just do them sequentially.
Is the Tin Drum good SS? I’ve managed about 5 books after starting Ulysses, including Beevor’s excellent D-Day. But I’m steeling myself now and will finish Joyce’s masterpiece. Its hard to read, but is clearly brilliant.
That bizzare behaviour. My feeble mind couldn’t handle 3 different books at once.
Ah tis, I’ll just be down to just two now as I’m closing in on The Tin Drum, though I have a copy of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 which is just begging to be read, only 100 pages, a novella really. As for The Tin Drum Fitzy, it’s a long old book but highly entertaining. I had been to alot of places in Danzig where the action takes place which added to it. The Good Soldier Svejk is a riot aswell, though I’ve a bit of reading to do there.
Have you read this yet, Fitzy? I’m just past half way and in that chapter where he lapses into Anglo Saxon narrative, fucking tough going I must say. When this is over I’ve to face into that 150 page chapter. Whole incidents have passed me by at this stage. I will be finished it by Bloomsday 2012 though. How he wrote this book I have absolutely no idea, the product of utter madness/genius.
I maintain that Bloomsday should not be rigidly on the 16th of June every year, it should be on Ascot Gold Cup day every year. I mean if the 16th falls on a Sunday it would make a nonsense of it. If it’s on Ascot Gold Cup day like in the book then it would always make sense and you could pop into a pub and watch the Gold Cup on TV too for effect.
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The legendary Throwaway.
I haven’t SS, it was doing my head it and I have been most undiciplined of late (and also very busy in work for the last few months). I’m actually back reading the Jack Lynch biog and may or may not assault Ulysses again.
I can see there being a number of schools of thought on your Bloomsday idea.
How was the Tin Drum in the finish?
The Tin Drum would be in my top five books of all time I’d say and that’s saying something because often translations can lose alot during the process. I read four chapters of Ulysses in quick succession and am was motoring until I hit this anglo saxon stuff. After that he lapses into stage script for 150 pages apparently so I’ll have to brace myself for that, still on target for Bloomsday I hope. Can start into Finnegan’s then after that.
This is like the slow learners class in national school. Blokes making a virtue of reading a book in 5 or 6 months.