Bloomsday, 2009 -- The opening paragraphs of Joyce's ULYSSES

Frederick Chambliss Wemyss reads the first few paragraphs of James Joyce's epic novel ULYSSES.
This is to mark the 105th anniversary of the day on which the novel takes place, June 16th, 1904. While the excerpt read here does not involve the character for whom Bloomsday is named, Mr. Leopold Bloom, it does involve Joyce's stand-in, Stephen Dedalus, and the great comic character Buck Mulligan, based on Joyce's friend Oliver St. John Gogarty (who felt mortal embarrassment at being caricatured, or, if you will, maligned, by his former friend.)

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• Bloomsday
• James Joyce
• Ulysses
• Mr. Leopold Bloom
• June 16th
• 1904
• Stephen Dedalus
• Buck Mulligan
• Oliver St. John Gogarty

[Subjectivity101]

I like the reading.

[thurberdrawing]

@Subjectivity101 Thanks!

[RarianRakista]

The high pitch whine can be taken out by using the audio filter in any a/v program. Ouch.

[thurberdrawing]

@RarianRakista Sorry! I have a deviated septum, and so the high-pitched whine stays!

[thurberdrawing]

I believe George Bernard Shaw spelled it "P-h-i-g-h-s-c-h."

[phillipgaley]

No, hey, . . . the red trim with the cream door, the ever-so-lightly green walls, the drop cloth jest a hangin', the rumpled felt hat, the poor fish--it all just fits, you can see it--can'tcha?

[UndrivenSnow]

Horrible fish- quite off putting!