The Bloomsday Weapon
I *was* going to start reading Ulysses today, honest I was...I'd fallen for the idea of spending the summer with Ulysses, one of the cornerstone texts for the forthcoming MA programme. Reading the introduction last week however, convinced me I should read Homer's Odyssey first. I took up my copy of the Robert Fagles translation at once, but now having reached Book 20, my overriding impression of the Odyssey is that with all the feasting that goes on, each Book leaves you fancying a ham sandwich.
I did celebrate Bloomsday by some book-purchasing at the UEA second-hand book fayre earlier today: the York Notes for the Odyssey, Greek Myths:1 by Robert Graves and Beginning Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry, £4.50 for the lot.
Bloomsday was a good day; as good as it gets, that is.
I did celebrate Bloomsday by some book-purchasing at the UEA second-hand book fayre earlier today: the York Notes for the Odyssey, Greek Myths:1 by Robert Graves and Beginning Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry, £4.50 for the lot.
Bloomsday was a good day; as good as it gets, that is.