happy bloomsday!

 

STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

-- Introibo ad altare Dei.

Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:

-- Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit.

happy bloomsday!

James Joyce meets Nora Barncale in 1904. "Stately plummp Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed . . ." Read a little Ulysses today. Have a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of Burgundy for lunch. Next year in Dublin!