"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'"

[gutenberg_org@mastodon.social]

"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'"

Let's celebrate, today is Bloomsday!

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Ulysses by James Joyce at PG:
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[spinfocl@fedihum.org]

To celebrate #Bloomsday, I have a little Joyce treat in store: https://hermesj.github.io/mappingJoyce/
#MappingJoyce
Places and routes from Joyce’s Dubliners, linked to essays by Jasmine Mulliken and text references on @gutenberg_org
[Ulysses and Portrait available, but not yet / only partially curated]

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@gutenberg_org
Oh no, not again.

Can't we just forget James Joyce?

[gutenberg_org@mastodon.social]

@raymaccarthy not today, perhaps tomorrow…

[jimkennedy@mas.to]

@spinfocl @gutenberg_org This is brilliant! I have notes somewhere about a plan to create exactly such a map. Alas, my skills are not a good as yours, so I never actually got anywhere with it. Well done!