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Letter from Bernard Shaw to Sylvia Beach
Dear Madam,
I have read fragments of Ulysses in its serial form. It is a revolting record of a disgusting phase of civilization, but it is a truthful one; and I should like to put a cordon round Dublin; round up every male person in it between the ages of 15 and 30; force them to [...]
Public Library 6.7
Ulysses as a comic. You’ll know if it’s for you.
Great story about butchering (in the professional sense) a pig by Bill Buford from The New Yorker from a few years back.
Sick of the full or double Windsor knot? Us too. That’s why we wear the Ediety/Merovingian/Matrix Knot.
Bloomsday
To celebrate Bloomsday for 2009, an extract:
White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping. A tiny coffin flashed by. In a hurry to bury. A mourning coach. Unmarried. Black for the married. Piebald for bachelors. Dun for a nun.
– Sad, Martin Cunningham said. A child.
A dwarf’s face mauve and wrinkled like [...]