Monday, June 16, 2025

Bloomsday 2025

From the “Ithaca” episode of Ulysses. Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, thinking.

James Joyce, Ulysses (1922).

In other words, Bloom thought that Stephen thought that Bloom was a Jew whereas Bloom knew that Stephen knew that Bloom knew that Stephen was not.

Related reading
All OCA Joyce posts (Pinboard)

[Bloomsday: “the 16th of June 1904. Also: the 16th of June of any year, on which celebrations take place, esp. in Ireland, to mark the anniversary of the events in Joyce’s Ulysses” (Oxford English Dictionary ).]

comments: 0