We start again on June 1st 2026

We’ll be starting again on June 1st 2026

Starting again on June 1st 2026

ChatStartDay 79 'sparrowfart...' (another great insult!)

Ilaria Susmel talks about Trieste, Joyce and Ulysses and her cousin Sylvia, also a Triestian, sings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

(and this won’t be the first time this’ll happen). The first edition to have the dot as a dot is actually the French translation of 1929; the first English edition to have it is the Odyssey Press edition of 1932. American Random House edition of 1934 and the British Bodley Head of 36 don’t have it.

the first edition. In later printings (1924–25) it’s a bit messier, which is probably due to wear and tear in the type but it might be due to the printer trying to make it a bit rounded. The 1926 edition had the type completely re-set and the dot is absent because the printer just messed up

from Sam Slote: 'The dot admits of many meanings. Joyce was quite clear it should be a prominent ‘point’ (in French point means both point *and* full stop), sort of like the • character, a tad larger and bolder than a plain full stop. Because of printing limitations it would up a square in ...'

Farewell to Ulysses The recent toppling of statues regarded as representing white supremacy is a sign that James Joyce’s Ulysses may soon be toppled from its top rank on the lists of great novels. Not only is James Joyce...

one interpretation:

crisismagazine.com/opinion/fare...

Who noticed the large dot at the end of Ithaca? [not all editions of Ulysses have it and it's sometimes in the wrong place in others...]

They didn't marry until 1931

ChatStart: 'What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed?'....

ChatStart: 'altercation with a truculent troglodyte' - 'truculent troglodyte!!! Isn't it such a brilliant insult....

who did that....

'a beehive arranged on human principles...'

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'amid thy hair is as a slice of pomegranate' biblehub.com/bsb/songs/6....

Many thanks - error has been there for four years! Will correct for next year...

Song of Solomon 4:3 - Bible Gateway

'amid thy hair as a slice of pomegranate'
www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Son...