« "You are who you know" | Main | Through Al-Qaida's Media-Saturated Eyeballs » Bloomsday If I was completely together I'd be celebrating Bloomsday in Dublin, and before going I would've re-read Joyce's Ulysses. I bought my first copy of the book when I was 14 years old, but it wasn't til I was in a class on epic literature at the University of Texas that I got serious... convinced the instructor to let me do a special study of Joyce's modern epic while the others were doing one of Homer's books (can't remember which). I remember writing the intense little paper that would summarize my Ulysses experience... ultimately something life 5-7 pages long, but sooo condensed. Not sure how I did it, and my Prof Rebhorn couldn't figure it out, either... normally, he said, I would expect twice this many pages, but you seem to've nailed it. Must've had something to do with the mouse in the walls of the house where we lived, who had a distinct rhythm as he pounded – something, I'm not sure what, certainly not snare drums – inside the walls. This while I typed and slashed and typed again, and Marsha slept. That was over 30 years ago, and the original Bloomsday was – so much longer, but it seems close. [Link] jon posted this at 11:30 PM |
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