Finishing Ulysses, Simpson's Style
I set this challenge as Groundhog Day Challenge because I intended to read the book by the centenary celebration on Groundhog Day. Little...
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- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
Metempsychosis? Who's he when he's at home?
If you have ever had to look up a word when reading an article or book then don't worry about it as Ulysses is full of comments that will...
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- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Mkgnao
GUESS WHO? You Will Never Guess Who Said This What sounds like poor poetry here, actually comes from the most unlikely of sources. I...
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- Jan 16, 2022
- 1 min
How about some Joyce for the 2022 European Cultural Show?
Could the European People's Festival do with some Joyce for the Cultural Show? Since moving to Spain, I have come to appreciate the works...
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- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
How do you say "Mkgnao" in Greek?
In a packed intimate environment, people gathered in a beautiful bookshop called Desperate Literature in the centre of Madrid to read...
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- Jan 9, 2022
- 5 min
Picturing Ulysses Naked
I don't normally post nudes but I'll make an exception for New York artist Spencer Tunick. Written back in 2008 and published in the...
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- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
율리시스
Joyce Korean style Joyce spoke as many as 17 languages which is absolutely amazing but how incredible was each and every translated...
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- Jan 8, 2022
- 3 min
NOTHING BRAKES LIKE A CAR
I wrote this last Easter after noticing some interesting details in a music video and while I am reluctant to include this in a series of...
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- Jan 7, 2022
- 3 min
Enjoying Joyce, Your Way
With less than a month to go to Groundhog Day and the centenary celebrations of Ulysses and the 140th anniversary of the birth of James...
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- Jan 6, 2022
- 8 min
Do You Expect Me To Blog?
NOTE: (Completely unrelated to James Joyce and the centenary celebration of Ulysses but I was challenged to post something about James...
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- Jan 6, 2022
- 15 min
Marilyn Monroe's Many Many Books
From Hiroshima To The Moon, there is literally so much to unpack here. I am unpacking the hundreds of books left behind on Marilyn...
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- Jan 6, 2022
- 4 min
Judge Joyce for yourself
There are so many books that I will have to read and reference at the end of The Groundhog Day Challenge and one of them is Aloysius The...
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- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
If you can't judge a book by its cover, how do you judge it?
I know it's a little cliché to say you can't judge a book by its cover but surely the cover and blurb should persuade us a little when it...
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- Jan 5, 2022
- 1 min
A New Year WIll Be
If 2022 sounds too much like 2020 two then one thing worth repeating would be the Bloomsday 2020 video A New Day Will Be. For Bloomsday...
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- Jan 5, 2022
- 2 min
Time for a Survival Bunker?
Spain is the champion of Coronavirus cases in Europe but before you celebrate, let's remember that this is nothing to be proud of. What...
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- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
30 Days To Groundhog Day
It's a new year and hopefully it will be a good year but it is the anniversary year and there are only 30 days to go until the centenary...
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- Jan 4, 2022
- 7 min
Anna Livia and my love for the R.N.L.I.
Inspired by an article in the journal.ie just before Christmas Day where the RNLI held a Christmas ceremony to celebrate the crew members...
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- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
Ulysses in an hour
(Well about an hour) While it has taken me months to break the back of Ulysses, there is more than one way to skin a little pusheen and I...
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- Dec 17, 2021
- 4 min
LUCK OUT FOR EACH OTHER
A car started beeping its horn aggressively behind the 657A Express bus from Pozuelo to Madrid and I wondered what the lunatic was doing,...
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- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
Bloomsday on Saint Stephen's Day
As 2018 came to a close, the Bloomsday Society in Madrid saved the best till last with some fantastic readings on the night in both...
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