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JOYICITY: MARCH 2020

In this issue: A word from our new President, Kevin Wright — Recap of our celebration of James Joyce’s birthday — First tentative schedule for our 2020 Festival! — Events around town — A blog post on Finnegans Wake’s Multifractal Structure

2020-03-10
Cinema, Events, Festival News, Musings

WHAT IS BLOOMSDAY?

Bloomsday marks the day — June 16, 1904 — that Leopold Bloom walked through Dublin in James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. This bold and fearless novel walks us through the lives of workaday Dubliners as it re-imagines the Greek myth, and spins its tale through the hero’s sensual and self-examining interior monologue.

WHERE, THE MILE END

Where, the mile end de Julie Morrissy, recueil de poésie Ou quand le vent boréal souffle une influence sur le poète. Du premier poème ‘Steel skin’ où on y regarde un hiver qui s’étend de Dublin jusqu’au bord du Mississipi et encore, au second poème ‘Looped’ où le fil du nord laisse des traces de vent glacial. Pourtant, le dernier poème, ‘The mile end’ porte encore des traces de notre neige d’hiver entre le Québec et le Vermont.

POSSET—THE PERFECT DESSERT TO END THE OLD YEAR

By the time New Year arrives you are bound to feel food fatigue — both in the making of, and the eating of… the thought of another heavy dessert is intolerable. So, let’s consider a posset — light and delicious and so easy to make it’s ridiculous.

A REVIEW OF PAUL AUSTER’S 4321

“On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Stanley and Rose Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives.”

ULYSSES ALIVE: A FIND AND A CHALLENGE

The quest to understand Joyce’s Ulysses continues! We came across a web site called BLOOMS AND BARNACLES, described as “a non-academic discussion of James Joyce and Ulysses”.