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6 posts from July 2014

Jul 30, 2014

Re: Joyce, Episode 216: Pools and Swirls

Mr. Bloom contemplates a virtual flood of dark brew.

       

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Jul 24, 2014

On Beatrix Potter

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Another issue of the wonderful "Public Domain Review".  

In this edition Frank has contributed a marvelous piece on Beatrix Potter, and PD has enhanced it with the most charming photographs and illustrations.  

 I love his direction to look into the work itself to see the inner life of the writer and artist, including a childhood Potter managed to so fill so successfully with a link between the human and the natural world, it became her life's work and a gift for us all. Frank's childhood was full of the field life around his rural Ireland home. So there was a natural link. But for those of you, like me, less tied to the fields and woods, but still holding on to our Benjamin Bunny breakfast sets (and a stuffed Pigling Bland) from childhood, Potter's gift may also have personal resonance. 

 

Here it is. Enjoy!   http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/23/the-tale-of-beatrix-potter/

Jul 23, 2014

Re: Joyce, Episode 215: Stout Fun

Mr Bloom considers valuable signatures and barrels of Guinness.

       

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Jul 16, 2014

Re: Joyce, Episode 214: Cool Waters

A woman with a jar of cool water in her head? Does Mr. Bloom imagine it?

       

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Jul 09, 2014

Re: Joyce, Episode 213: Martha & Mary

Mr. Bloom has his own, somewhat questionable, version of the famous scene from the Gospels.

       

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Jul 02, 2014

Re: Joyce, Episode 212: Pinpoints

Mr. Bloom reflects on roughness, roses and thorns.

       

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