bloomsday
. . . and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
The Bloomsday centenary is Wednesday, and the Washington Post offers Michael Dirda, eloquent as always, on the legacy of Ulysses, as well as a guide to cracking the damn thing.
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Christopher Hitchins has a laudatory article in May's "Vanity Fair" about "Ulysses."
He quite lovingly calls it a testimony to the powers of masturbation. And he gets quite graphic about it.
No comment on whether resorting to the "it's all about sex" argument from high school is the proper description of this work of genius.
Posted by: hk | June 14, 2004 10:27 PM