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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
F rom Dublin, James Joyce sat down to write a letter to his wife, Nora Barnacle, who was taking care of the family in Triest. He began by recalling the moment five years before when he stepped out with Nora the first time, an event that — after the success of "Ulysses" — would be celebrated thereafter as Bloomsday: ... you seem to turn me into a beast. It was you yourself, you naughty...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
On the morning of September 18, 2008, Stephen James Joyce, grandson... of renowned Irish writer, James Joyce, called from France in response to a letter I sent to him some weeks before.
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Kaleidoglide (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
The carolers are out. Yesterday they were grouped around a statue of James Joyce, so he looked like one of them, and singing 'Santa Claus is coming to town'. Jim would not approve.
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What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
It's either trivial, or perhaps quadrivial (to quote James Joyce), but it don't mean much at all. Except fun. BTW, ER , consider yourself tagged. 1. Five names you go by: a) Geoffrey b) Geoff (mostly family) c) Mr. Kruse-Safford d) Geoffrey Stephen (my mother still does this!) e) Dad 2. Three things you are wearing right now: a) Green carpenter's pants b) White Rugby shirt c) Steel toe...
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Patent Appeal Tracer (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. James Joyce, Ulysses. Um, a shaving mishap . . . on 16 June? Of course, the best (or worst ) may be from Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which...
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Library Journal News (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... for famous cultural works like the Mona Lisa or manuscripts of literature by Kafka, Cervantes or James Joyce.” In fact, Selmayr suggested to reporters that the overwhelming traffic that crashed the servers answered concerns about whether there was sufficient interest to sustain the project. “We have our answer,” he noted.Designers expected a maximum of five million hits an hour—but...
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Pop Occulture (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... primarily based on hybrid words. Like the portmanteau words invented by Lewis Carroll and used in James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, it dissects and recombines language and stacks multiple layers of meanings into single phrases. Beyond that, it is an Internet-cultural poetic language deriving much of its tension from incorporating formal code and informal speech at once[2]. Its base...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... some of its greatest exponents, including Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Sinead O'Connor.The cost is approximately $30 and there are four departures daily. For more, visit .NEW GENEVA SERVICE: Air Canada will introduce year-round non-stop service between Montreal and Geneva, Switzerland, with daily flights beginning June 1, 2009 – with same-plane...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... of this comedy. It is to associate virtue with bottles and glasses, and villainy with books"), but James Joyce had great charm: "If he arrived in a taxi, he wouldn't get out until the driver had finished what he was saying." The few chestnuts that appear, such as Coleridge's disruptive gentleman from Porlock and Waugh gorging on the family's bananas, are so revealing as to demand...
