“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself.
Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
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Usually celebrated on June 16, we’ll gather the following Saturday for our first annual (?) Bloomsday: a literary stroll through Westport inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses. The novel unfolds over a single day—June 16, 1904—which later became known as Bloomsday after its wandering protagonist, Leopold Bloom.
Here in Westport we’ll wander together through town, stopping at local businesses for snacks, libations, and two-minute readings, enjoying conversation and company along the way. No Joyce expertise required—just comfortable shoes and curiosity.
Please meet in the gallery at Snowfort promptly at 3pm.
Here’s a video that breaks down Ulysses—not required, but it’s pretty good!
Molly Bloom’s closing soliloquy
…and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.