[BLOOMSDAY--CELEBRATING JOYCE'S ULYSSES, HAS COME AND GONE. BUT HERE IS A LOOK BACK]
FOUR DISPATCHES FROM JAMES JOYCE’S
CITY DURING THE CENTENNIAL OF BLOOMSDAY
DISPATCH ONE
In most places in the world, June 16 is just another day on the calendar, but here in Dublin, the day that James Joyce earmarked for Ulysses is celebrated with a fervor not seen here since the days of the druids when, if you really wanted to party, you needed a couple skeins of wine and a grove full of virgins.
When Dubliners celebrate they don’t mess around. June 16, Bloomsday, isn’t nearly enough time. The celebrations started the weekend before and will continue throughout the week and into next weekend. The 19th International James Joyce Symposium kicked off with a reading by Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Joyceans woke up early Sunday morning for an outdoor breakfast on O’Connell Street, strolled to the National Concert Hall for a plenary reading by John Banville and rounded out the evening with a civic reception for symposium delegates at city hall hosted by Dublin’s Lord Mayor.
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known for his nonsense poetry , there was truth in his suggestion that some linguistic labels are perfectly suited to the concepts they denote. “Dawdle” and “meander” sound as unhurried as the walking speeds they describe, and “awkward” and “gawky” sound as ungainly as the bodies they represent. When the Gestalt psychologist and fellow German Wolfgang Köhler read Morgenstern’s poem, in the nineteen-twenties, he was moved to suggest that words convey symbolic ideas beyond their meaning. To test the idea more carefully, he asked a group of respondents to decide which of the two shapes below was a maluma and which was a takete:





born and where Osama bin Laden is said to have planned the 9/11 attacks. The area was all but evacuated—it was not yet poppy-growing season, and Panjwai’s residents had gone to nearby cities to find work. For two months, the Arctic Wolves went about their business of clearing the territory of weapons and establishing a combat outpost without suffering casualties.



protect the new species’ genetic identity and increase the likelihood of its survival. But of the many observable traits in a potential mate, which particular traits does a female tend to prefer?


















Frankenstein, Milton & the Computer





the Washington Post reported on June 8, the material collected from Internet company servers is electronically “pushed” to classified FBI computers in Quantico, Virginia, and then “shared with the NSA or other authorized intelligence agencies.”
The cold remains a mystery, more prone to fell men than women, more lethal to the thin and well muscled than to those with avoirdupois, and least forgiving to the arrogant and the unaware.





