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		| MollyBloom 
 
  
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 Location: James Joyce's pants
 
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				|  Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:01 am    Post subject: Happy Bloomsday! |   |  
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				| yes it is -My favorite day of the year- This year I will be making a picture diary for Bloomsday around Seoul starting in the morning at the omphalos (the roof of my apt building) and ending back at my apt sleeping head-to-foot with my husband Eat gorgonzola sandwiches, drink burgandy, and fight off the restraining power structures all day long and also remember to use correct punctuation yes |  | 
	
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		| oldlongears 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:05 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Happy Bloomsday! 
 Two quotes off the top of my head:
 
 "History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
 
 and the end
 
 "...yes I said yes I will Yes."
 
 Despite what others have said about Ulysees being a typically underwhelming seminal work, forget them. I love it.
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		| MollyBloom 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:30 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| My favorite episodes are Telemachus and Hades. Where's Banjois on this thread?! |  | 
	
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		| banjois 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:14 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Here! 
 I actually, shamefully, forgot until mid-afternoon. Which still allowed for some pints and general Joycean rambling into the evening. Considered public onanism at the 한강, but then thought better of it. I Did NOT regret having missed eating a breakfast kidney; tried that a few years back and decided it was better in theory than in practice. Made the (red-headed!) girlfriend speak to me at length sans punctuation. All in all, I'd give it an 8.5 out of 10, ...
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