Fuck! It's Bloomsday today!
 

And I forgot and I was reading Faulkner.

O well.

Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.

gotta get going. what disaster.

Shit! I completely forgot, I've been so fucking busy. Things are only letting up now, if only earlier.

"Yes"

Actually it was yesterday.

EDIT - well technically, I'm so fucking tired I'm getting bloody confused.

No longer. It's Tuesday now.

Yes that's what I meant. And I don't even have the book with me to read a bit in celebration.

WEll to be precise you have the night for your debauchery & you should be getting home around what, 4am was it?

dont forget your ashplant.

(He lifts his ashplant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier. Time's livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.)

I forgot too. I'm not too bummed, I was reading Gravity's Rainbow, which I like better anyway.

And since Faulkner is my favorite author, I don't think you did half bad either.

Ah interesting. That bit is in Circe right? Interesting because Stephen is thinking about "toppling masonry" referring to war earlier in the part when he's teaching/getting paid, I can't remember which. I wonder what the significance of it being repeated there is.

forgive me for my ignorance but what is bloomsday?

if it has anything to do with william faulkner count me out.

I'd forgot it was Bloomsday yesterday until this morning, however, I did pick up (first time in over a month) Ulysses last night and read 10 pages (90 to go) all without knowing it was Bloomsday.

You know of the novel Ulysses by james Joyce right? The protagonist is called Leopold Bloom and the entire events of the book happen on 16th June 1904, hence 'Bloomsday' or Bloom's day.

Joyce's spirit must have been with you that day

thanks for answering my question. fuckers.
i will not resort to google.

What's wrong? I answered the question.

Oh yeah and it takes place in Dublin so you can go to Dublin and reenact the route Bloom takes through the city.

dont pretend for a second that you understand a word of ulysses
it all sounds nice
but make sense?
its all gibberish to me

haha i'm sorry, i didn't see that.

anyway i'll have no part of this literary nonsense.

You're thinking of Finnegan's Wake. Ulysses is really hard especially in particular places, sometimes to the point where it is incomprehensible without much re reading and frequent use of dictionary. With Finnegan's Wake the dictionary is useless.

Balls. I'm setting myself a reminder for next year.