The Fountain of Youth (Detail) — Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)

The Fountain of Youth (Detail) — Lucas Cranach the Elder

Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)

Orchard in Blossom — Vincent van Gogh

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Orchard in Blossom, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Like the first 12 minutes of Nic Roeg’s film Walkabout

Watch the other minutes, too.

The Fountain of Youth (Detail) — Lucas Cranach the Elder

Detail from Der Jungbrunnen (The Fountain of Youth), 1546 by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472–1553)

Portrait of Joan the Mad — Juan de Flandes

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Johanna die Wahnsinnige (Portrait of Joan the Mad), c. 1496-1500 by Juan de Flandes (1460–1519)

Pantomime 6 — Denis Sarazhin

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Pantomime 6 by Denis Sarazhin (b. 1982)

Vliegende Heks — Dan Lydersen

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Vliegende Heks (Flying Witch), 2016 by Dan Lydersen (b. 1980)

Two Musician Girls — Osman Hamdi Bey

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Two Musician Girls, 1880 by Osman Hamdi Bey(1842–1910)

Sunday Comics 

From Richie Pope’s Fatherson, issue #13 of Youth in Decline’s monograph series Frontier. It’s so, so good. My review.

Rose Offered in a Coniferous Wood — Robin Ironside

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Rose Offered in a Coniferous Wood, 1946 by Robin Ironside (1912-1965)

Hide and Speak — Jolene Lai

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Hide and Speak by Jolene Lai (b. 1980)

Balztanz — Susannah Martin

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Balztanz (Courtship Dance), 2014 by Susannah Martin (b. 1964)

Marusya — Gely Korzhev

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Marusya, 1983-1989 by Gely Korzhev (1925-2012)

and yes I said yes I will recycle this Bloomsday blog again Yes

Portrait of James Joyce by Djuna Barnes

How to read Ulysses

What did Leopold actually do on June 16th, 1904?

About Bloomsday 1.0

Ulysses art by Roman Muradov

Selections from one-star Amazon reviews of Ulysses

 

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A list of Irish heroes (from “The Cyclops” episode of Ulysses)

Another page of Joyce’s notes, plus links to more

James Joyce talks dirty

Filming Finnegans

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James Joyce’s eye glasses prescription

William Faulkner’s Joyce anxiety

Ezra Pound on James Joyce

Marilyn Monroe reads Molly 

Biblioklept’s lousy review (the review is lousy, not the book) of Dubliners

Joyce’s entry on the 1901 Irish Census

Joyce’s caricature of Leopold Bloom

Biblioklept’s review (not so lousy, the review) of a superior full-cast audio recording of Ulysses

James Joyce explains why Odysseus is the most “complete man’ in literature

Leopold’s Bloom’s recipe for burnt kidney breakfast

“What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire?”

James Joyce’s death mask

 

The Transmogrifications of Bloom — Richard Hamilton

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Self Portrait at Easel — Catherine Murphy

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Self Portrait at Easel, 1973 by Catherine Murphy (b. 1946)