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Just Sitting and Thinking: January 2009
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Just Sitting and Thinking. Random thoughts, musings and other triviality on life. Friday, 30 January 2009. Sorry I haven't been around for a while - if you read my first post of the month, you'll realise I've had a few things to work out. That, and feeling as if I'm back in 1979 all over again. Why are we so resigned when this sor tof horror is happening? I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, but this might be it - people are hurting, so let's do what we can to help them. Apologies are only words...
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Just Sitting and Thinking: September 2009
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Just Sitting and Thinking. Random thoughts, musings and other triviality on life. Monday, 28 September 2009. Welcome to my old world. We,a s a family, are starting a little experiment today, born out of frustration, a fair modicum of anger and argument, but essentially an attempt to regain control of a few things. We threw out our television and DVD player. This could get. interesting. Thursday, 3 September 2009. It was seventy years ago today. From the BBC History website. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Ulysses The Blog!: Oh, Blerg.
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Monday, June 9, 2008. Picking up the book, I realize I've put off writing about Episode 3 for so long after my re-reading of it that now I'll have to re-re-read it. Just thought I'd wish Rob and everyone else a happy Bloomsday if you are reading this on the 16th of June. The events of the book took place 104 years ago today. You can check out what they are doing in 'Dear Dirty Dublin' today here:. Http:/ www.visitdublin.com/events/AllDublinEvents/Detail.aspx? Then I went to the Martello Tower Stephen and...
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Ulysses The Blog!: July 2008
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Well I thought it was funny. I was actually reading the book Saturday afternoon. No, no, that isn't the funny part. Anyways, I like reading either with music playing the background or with the TV on. If I read in silence my mind tends to wander. Saturday I had the TV on in the background, and I wasn't really paying attention to what was on. Eventually I did notice, and it was. Cops. I don't know why but that made me laugh. Could there have been two more cultural opposites?
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Ulysses The Blog!: Bloomsday!
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Monday, June 16, 2008. Happy Bloomsday, everybody! When I first conceived of this project, I planned to finish the book by today. Obviously, that hasn't happened. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't mark the occasion. My schedule doesn't permit much tonight, but I certainly will be lifting a pint for Leopold, whom I don't really know yet, but will before his day is through. Here's a link to a bunch of Bloomsday celebrations. Of his Bloomsday in Dublin, ten years ago. June 17, 2008 at 2:57 AM.
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Ulysses The Blog!: Don't do what I did
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Thursday, June 26, 2008. Don't do what I did. I basically hadn't picked up the book for about a month. When I did though.man! I didn't know what the hell I was reading. It could have been written in Spanish and I would have understood just as much as I did. Once I turned it upside down I was better. I did go back to what I remembered and restarted from there. I was just sitting there blinking at the pages for a while though. July 1, 2008 at 3:34 AM. I'm in the exact same position - with my re.
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Ulysses The Blog!: Mornings at Home
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Saturday, May 24, 2008. Toward the beginning of Episode 4 (Calypso), James Joyce captures what life is like on the occasions when I wake up before my wife:. On quietly creaky boots he went up the staircase to the hall, paused by the bedroom door. She might like something tasty. Thin bread and butter she likes in the morning. Still perhaps: once in a way. He said softly in the bare hall:. I am going round the corner. Be back in a minute. And when he had heard his voice say it he added:. Greg: Define a Life.
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Ulysses The Blog!: 75 years of Ulysses (and beer)
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Thursday, December 11, 2008. 75 years of Ulysses (and beer). Coincidentally, this week was also the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. As Morris Ernst, one of the lawyers involved in the case, said:. The first week of December 1933 will go down in history for two repeals, that of Prohibition and that of the legal compulsion for squeamishness in literature. We may now imbibe freely of the contents of bottles and forthright books.". March 26, 2012 at 7:11 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Ulysses The Blog!: December 2008
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Thursday, December 11, 2008. 75 years of Ulysses (and beer). Coincidentally, this week was also the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. As Morris Ernst, one of the lawyers involved in the case, said:. The first week of December 1933 will go down in history for two repeals, that of Prohibition and that of the legal compulsion for squeamishness in literature. We may now imbibe freely of the contents of bottles and forthright books.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Brian: The Vaguest Ideas.
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Ulysses The Blog!: September 2008
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Monday, September 22, 2008. I thought it was interesting (and not altogether surprising) that Joyce doesn't use the traditional spelling of "meow" (or "miaow") to indicate Leopold Bloom's cat is making a noise. Instead, he uses such spellings as "Mkgnao! To make the noise. I'd thought that perhaps "meow" hadn't been standardized yet, but in fact the spelling has been around since the early 17th century. It makes the reader scratch his head and think, "what the hell. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
