an excuse to celebrate
Jun. 16th, 2005 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonI'm embarassed to admit that one of my Lovely Housemates had to remind me about the holiday this morning -- Happy Bloomsday!
More Bloomsday info
Even if you're not fond of the book itself, today provides an excellent excuse to lift a pint and celebrate literary experimentation and a landmark legal victory against censorship.
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather..."
"It's a miserable ritual, a magical procedure. . . a homunculus of the consciousness of the new world -- our world passed away and a new world has arisen."
-- Carl Jung on Ulysses, in the Europaeische Revue
"In respect to the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring."
-- Judge M. Woolsey writing on the "obscenity" in Ulysses, 1933
"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
-- James Joyce, _Ulysses_
-- Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the opposite of that that is really life.
-- What? Says Alf.
-- Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
"Parried again. He fears the lancet of my art as I fear that of his. The cold steelpen. "
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
"I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
More Bloomsday info
Even if you're not fond of the book itself, today provides an excellent excuse to lift a pint and celebrate literary experimentation and a landmark legal victory against censorship.
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather..."
"It's a miserable ritual, a magical procedure. . . a homunculus of the consciousness of the new world -- our world passed away and a new world has arisen."
-- Carl Jung on Ulysses, in the Europaeische Revue
"In respect to the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring."
-- Judge M. Woolsey writing on the "obscenity" in Ulysses, 1933
"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
-- James Joyce, _Ulysses_
-- Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the opposite of that that is really life.
-- What? Says Alf.
-- Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
"Parried again. He fears the lancet of my art as I fear that of his. The cold steelpen. "
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
"I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
