Day of Joyce
A little bit of a server hiccup here has prevented me from leaving little notes for the world these last few days. Happily that is all better today and there is still time (here in the Pacific Time Zone) to celebrate Bloomsday. Today is the 100th anniversary of the events which take place in James Joyce's Ulysses, that day when Leopold Bloom made his eventful way across Dublin and the novel was forever changed.
Bloomsday is celebrated quite extensively in Ireland and was only marred slightly this year when Stephen Joyce tried to assert his familial copyright over the text and prevent the public reading of the text (including several presentations of the 27 hour fully unabridged audio CD version).
~sigh~
Over here, my contact with Joyce today came when I was perusing the course lists at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy. Joyce's Finnegan's Wake was "supplemental" reading for a number of courses.
Yeah, 'cause if dissecting arcane knowledge and mystical philosophical systems wasn't enough to keep one busy for a lifetime, there's always a little dipping into Finnegan to keep the malingerers off the streets.