Thread: It's BLOOMSDAY!
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Old 06-16-2009, 10:14 AM
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Have a good one, all you Irishmen.
so glad someone understands:D

Leopold Bloom - lead charater of Joyce's epic novel Ulysses (a thematic parallel to Homer's epic poem The Oddyssey) spends June 16th strolling the town and worrying about his wife's infidelities (while engaging in some of his own)

June 16th is forever Bloomsday in honor of the most complex novel ever written... about a man's rather ordinary day, no less.

Literary geeks rejoice (or is it re-Joyce?)
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