“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
Born February 2, 1882, Irish author James Joyce wrote the renowned books Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). Ulysses is about the Odysseus-like adventures of friends Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they travel through Dublin on June 16, 1904---the day that Joyce and his future wife Nora had first hooked up. Finnegans Wake seems to be the dreams of the Earwicker family who live above a pub in Dublin. But Mr. Earwicker seems to have done something creepy and actionable, analogous in the dreams to the fall of Adam. But there is also some connection in the dreams to Christ's resurrection (as the titular Tim Finnegan revived during his own wake).
Last fall, Beth and I enjoyed visiting the Museum of Literature Ireland which has interesting information about Joyce, as well as copy #1 of Ulysses. Highly recommended when you visit Dublin!
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