One thing I’d like to see: David Foster Wallce hooking up with a quantum-powered theoretical physicist. Let’s talk about strings—tennis, yarn, wave theory, particle theory—bring it all together in a lovely afternoon at Wimbledon. Words as subatomic particles. Light-years-long waves as Proustian sentences. Jumble it all up with a Jimmy Joyce thunderclap: bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
Tag: James Joyce
Ulysses: 100 on 2·2·22
Today (2/2/22) marks the 100th anniversary of Ulysses by James Joyce, published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce’s 40th birthday. I thought you would enjoy this luscious piece of literary news. For my part, I am going to join Mr Leopold Bloom this evening and dine with relish on the inner organs of beasts and fowls. […]
