The Green Man has a terrible secret, he has never read Ulyssies by James Joyce, mainly because it is boring. It is an 800 page allegoric tale in the Homeric style set on one day, today, exactly 100 years ago. Hard as it is to believe some people don't happen to agree with The Green Man and good luck to them.
The most important aspect of Bloomsday is the consumption of Guiness at an appropriate Irish pub and the best part is that you don't have to have read the book first. Go along, it is bound to be a colourful affair, as most Irish celebrations are.
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or read the most recent entries here.I haven't read it. Daunting. Scary. Fiction. Fiction is not really for me. I honestly tried, in a self-imposed self-improvement program, but I couldn't do it.
Have you ever heard the Kate Bush song that is the last sentence, or closing scene - whatever - of Ullyssies?
Yes, Oh yes.
I didn't read it for the same reason. I'm all for literature but reading Joyce going on and on and on about just how pretentious he is is a yawner. Books need content.
Posted by: Calico at March 16, 2006 02:05 AM
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