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James Joyce had a lot to say about Scotland ... almost all of it bad
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THIS Thursday sees the 95th anniversary of Bloomsday - the day
named after Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce's great novel,
Ulysses. It was on 16 June, 1904, that Joyce first walked out with
the love of his life, Nora Barnacle. (On hearing her surname his
father cried out: "She'll never leave him!"). Nora was schooled in
"the gentle art of self-satisfaction", and she helped the young
Joyce
up the ladder of sexual knowledge.
That hot date in Dublin meant so much to Joyce that he made it
the
occasion of his greatest work - it is on that day that the action of
Ulysses takes place. After the ...
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DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Philosophy," published in 1930. He had received a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University in 1923. LUDWIG VON MOOS Swiss President Ludwig von Moos, 80, a former president of Switzerland who also had served as the country's justice minister...
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