Bloomsday
I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 6:40:56 am PDT #3268 of 10002
brillig
Katie M - Jun 16, 2004 6:43:15 am PDT #3269 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I've got pretty much nothing myself, but I know melymbrosia reviews romance sometimes--there's a set of them in her memories here.
Susan W. - Jun 16, 2004 6:47:04 am PDT #3270 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
Same here.
Betsy HP - Jun 16, 2004 6:47:40 am PDT #3271 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I've never read Ulysses. It's one of those things, like eggplant, that people say you're supposed to appreciate, but which I've never been tempted to try.
Connie is me. I was feeling guilty just this morning hearing the NPR hoo-hah.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2004 6:49:05 am PDT #3272 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Susan, I asked for romance recs here: Jesse "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" May 27, 2004 9:52:17 am PDT
Maysa - Jun 16, 2004 6:51:57 am PDT #3273 of 10002
Some Bloomsday humor.
Hayden - Jun 16, 2004 6:55:34 am PDT #3274 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Well, here you go. All y'all non-Ulysses readers can do so, a page at a time, over the next year.
Susan W. - Jun 16, 2004 6:56:34 am PDT #3275 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks, Katie and Jesse. (Though, glancing at melymbrosia's list, she's almost as historical-exclusive as I am.)
Steph L. - Jun 16, 2004 6:56:45 am PDT #3276 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Some Bloomsday humor.
I love this part:
that virus - called Bloomsday - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating literary viruses that try to "show illiterate technophiles the power of the written word."
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2004 6:57:15 am PDT #3277 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Some Bloomsday humor.
Ha! I love it.
"I was really freaked out when I turned on my phone and found this convoluted narrative mess crawling across my screen," said Jack Clemson, a University of Washington student who owns one of the first known infected phones. ""Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed…" I was pretty sure that wasn't my girlfriend texting me about lunch."
I haven't read Ulysses, but I love Portrait of the Artist. And I don't get "Araby."