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Article: Re-Joyce! Love `Ulysses' or hate it, this book's for you.(Reviews)(Review)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2004
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Byline: REVIEW By Paul Denison The Register-Guard
Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes
Edited by Nolla Tully
(Vintage Books, 91 pages, $11)
Probably the most famous day in English literature is June 16, 1904, the day on which Leopold Bloom takes a stroll through Dublin in James Joyce's famous novel, "Ulysses."
For decades, devotees have celebrated "Bloomsday" by getting together and reverently reading aloud passages from the book.
Not the whole book, mind you. Isaiah Sheffer, who directs the annual Bloomsday readings by professional actors in New York City, estimates that it would take 32 hours to read all 18 sections in their ...