99 years ago a Paris bookshop published the full 700+ pages of James Joyce’s Ulysses. All those pages were about the comings and goings of Leopold Bloom on one ordinary day in Dublin, June 16, 1904. June 16 has become popularly known as Bloomsday. Many celebrations and readings are held every year on this date. There’s this poem in The Guardian that goes counter to Molly Bloom’s famous Yes at the book’s end:
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