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TottsWhat an awful thing for Lord Darroch, the Ex-ambassador to USA to say on #<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TrevorPhillips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrevorPhillips</a>"If you are looking legally as to whether <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> meets the criteria of being a state: is there a permanent stable government; is there recognised and established borders; does that government have control over its whole territory; can it conduct diplomatic reactions, you have to say Palestine fails.This definition was lampooned in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Joyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Joyce</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>1/2 (quote in reply)

UK<a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/289536/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/uk/289536/</a> father’s legacy of inspires many to embrace reading <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DanPelzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DanPelzer</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Entertainment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JohnGrisham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnGrisham</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/legacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#legacy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#library</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarciPelzer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarciPelzer</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedKingdom</a>

Totts"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy" is a quote from <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>. It is spoken by the character Stephen Dedalus. The quote reflects a feeling of unease and discomfort with grand pronouncements and abstract language, suggesting that such language can be alienating and contribute to unhappiness. The resolution of the novel is the dissolution of all words with the surrendering fuck of yes.Ulysses is a woman's novel.

TottsNever read <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>? Why <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a>’s Bloomsday isn’t just for literature buffs | Books and Literature News - The Indian Express <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/bloomsday-james-joyces-ulysses-june-16-10070290/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/bloomsday-james-joyces-ulysses-june-16-10070290/</a>

mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a>, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>.Closing out <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/bloomsday2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bloomsday2025</a> while forging ahead through this book, I’m not sure yet what to make of it- really- but this I know: I am in it. It’s a mirror. Bits of the Roman Missal, the classics, 19th century cookery books … the geography of Ireland, Dublin, all broken into shards and reassembled in a glass mosaic in which I see my face.

Speckled Band📚Ulysses, the novel burned for its ‘obscenity’… Find out more about James Joyce’s controversial masterpiece👇<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/d46DZ6XI8jk?si=eoJ2hr61cLP6ktUR" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/d46DZ6XI8jk?si=eoJ2hr61cLP6ktUR</a><a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bloomsday</a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/jamesjoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jamesjoyce</a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/BookTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookTok</a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a>

penpencilbrush🇨🇦Happy Bloomsday! a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/adhHjZMHgZo?si=irprTH-NRALEJgMA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/adhHjZMHgZo?si=irprTH-NRALEJgMA</a>

b-rainEinen schönen <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bloomsday</a> allerseits! Ein guter Tag um beidseitig gebutterte Scones zu essen. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/lesen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lesen</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/literatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literatur</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/jamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>

In the DarkBloomsday 2025So it’s 16th June, a very special day in Ireland – especially Dublin – because 16th June 1904 is the date on which the story takes place of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ulysses</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">James Joyce</a>. <a href="http://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bloomsday</a> – named after the character Leopold Bloom – is an annual celebration not only of all things Joycean but also of Ireland’s wider cultural and literary heritage.If you haven’t read Ulysses yet then you definitely should. It’s one of the great works of modern literature. And don’t let people put you off by telling you that it’s a difficult read. It’s a long read,  that’s for sure -it’s over 900 pages – but the writing is full of colour and energy and it has a real sense of place. It’s a wonderful book. I’ve read it three times now, once as a teenager, once in my thirties, and again last year when I’d reached sixty.Anyway, here’s an excerpt with an astromomical theme, which seems to me to fit this blog:<blockquote>With what meditations did Bloom accompany his demonstration to his companion of various constellations?Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.</blockquote>I’ll also mention that, starting at 8am on  RTÉ Radio 1 Extra (but also available at other times on the RTÉ player), you  <a href="http://rte.ie/dramaonone" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">can listen to the classic radio broadcast of Ulysses from 1982</a>.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/bloomsday/" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/james-joyce/" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/leopold-bloom/" target="_blank">#LeopoldBloom</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/ulysses/" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>

iamBullivantOn the way home, frustrated by the frequency of requests, Joyce and Beckett are making for toilet stops, the carriage driver decides not to wait for Beckett's to return from the toilet, and left him “ingloriously abandoned on the outskirts of Paris”. 2/2<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SamuelBeckett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SamuelBeckett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paris</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Versailles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Versailles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivantOn 16 June 1924 friends send Joyce, who is in hospital, a bouquet of white and blue hydrangeas. He writes in his notebook: “Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?”<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

iamBullivant16 June is Bloomsday, a commemoration and celebration of the life of James Joyce during which the events of Ulysses (set on 16 June 1904) are relived. Joyce chose the date because it was the date of his first outing with Nora Barnacle when they walked to Ringsend.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ringsend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ringsend</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

Nearly Normal (=>÷)And for those of us who have read one of literature's most difficult but rewarding books; Today is Bloomsday.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a>

mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺Oh. I should try reading <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> on the train. 🙄 <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ThatGuy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThatGuy</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Mastodaoine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodaoine</a>

Totts<a href="https://mastodon.ie/@sothach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sothach</a> Re: Joyce - <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> returns to the RTÉ airwaves for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a href="https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0612/1518072-re-joyce-ulysses-returns-to-the-rte-airwaves-for-bloomsday/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0612/1518072-re-joyce-ulysses-returns-to-the-rte-airwaves-for-bloomsday/</a>

iamBullivantJames Joyce first met the love of his life, Nora Barnacle, in Dublin on 10 June 1904. It was not until 16 June that they had their first romantic liaison. This date would later be chosen as the setting for Joyce’s novel Ulysses, and has come to be known and celebrated around the world as Bloomsday. Nora was born in Galway city in 1884.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NoraBarnacle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoraBarnacle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dublin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Galway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Galway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>

mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺<a href="https://youtu.be/X7FobPxu27M?si=PI6IoaegYr7S_0tI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/X7FobPxu27M?si=PI6IoaegYr7S_0tI</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a>

mark 🇮🇪 🇪🇺So in preparation for <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomsday</a>, I’ve restarted my attempt at <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> - I’ve decided that it’s just word salad that somehow makes sense … I know I’m supposed to like <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Joyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Joyce</a> … My tactic is to listen to audio book while reading the text.

Stan CareyUnheaded, unlookedfor, unremembered, unwooded: an alphabet of un- words in "Ulysses" <a href="https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2013/12/the-un-words-in-ulysses.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2013/12/the-un-words-in-ulysses.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishLit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishLiterature</a>

Daniel ReedersHas anyone made the shift from <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Obsidian</a> as their main writing tool? Any experiences or insights to share?

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