happy bloomsday

watt writes (and i agree):

people,

go get your read on:

http://www.readeasily.com/james-joyce/00130/index.php

...18 chapters, each covering roughly one hour of the day, beginning around about 8 a.m. and ending sometime after 2 a.m. the following morning. each of the 18 chapters of the novel employs its own literary style. each chapter also refers to a specific episode in homer's odyssey and has a specific colour, art or science and bodily organ associated with it.

yeah, yeah... well, for one thing, I wouldn't have written "colour" !!!

"...that cry that has rung through the ages. and then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind and o! then the roman candle burst and it was like a sigh of o! and everyone cried o! o! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of..." (pg 359, 1st u.s. edition)

watt