{"id":553,"date":"2006-06-16T00:19:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=553"},"modified":"2007-11-20T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T15:36:47","slug":"happy-bloomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/16\/happy-bloomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bloomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/joyce.jpg\" alt=\"joyce.jpg\" id=\"image573\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, 1920.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing Imperthnthn thnthnthn.<br \/>\nChips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.<br \/>\nHorrid! And gold flushed more.<br \/>\nA husky fifenote blew.<br \/>\nBlew. Blue bloom is on the.<br \/>\nGoldpinnacled hair.<br \/>\nA jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile.<br \/>\nTrilling, trilling: Idolores.<br \/>\nPeep! Who&#8217;s in the &#8230; peepofgold?<br \/>\nTink cried to bronze in pity.<br \/>\nAnd a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.<br \/>\nDecoy. Soft word. But look: the bright stars fade. Notes chirruping answer.<br \/>\nO rose! Castile. The morn is breaking.<br \/>\nJingle jingle jaunted jingling.<br \/>\nCoin rang. Clock clacked.<br \/>\nAvowal. SONNEZ. I could. Rebound of garter. Not leave thee. Smack. LA CLOCHE! Thigh smack. Avowal. Warm. Sweetheart, goodbye!<br \/>\nJingle. Bloo.<br \/>\nBoomed crashing chords. When love absorbs. War! War! The tympanum.<br \/>\nA sail! A veil awave upon the waves.<br \/>\nLost. Throstle fluted. All is lost now.<br \/>\nHorn. Hawhorn.<br \/>\nWhen first he saw. Alas!<br \/>\nFull tup. Full throb.<br \/>\nWarbling. Ah, lure! Alluring.<br \/>\nMartha! Come!<br \/>\nClapclap. Clipclap. Clappyclap.<br \/>\nGoodgod henev erheard inall.<br \/>\nDeaf bald Pat brought pad knife took up.<br \/>\nA moonlit nightcall: far, far.<br \/>\nI feel so sad. P. S. So lonely blooming.<br \/>\nListen!<br \/>\nThe spiked and winding cold seahorn. Have you the? Each, and for other, plash and silent roar.<br \/>\nPearls: when she. Liszt&#8217;s rhapsodies. Hissss.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t?<br \/>\nDid not: no, no: believe: Lidlyd. With a cock with a carra.<br \/>\nBlack. Deepsounding. Do, Ben, do.<br \/>\nWait while you wait. Hee hee. Wait while you hee.<br \/>\nBut wait!<br \/>\nLow in dark middle earth. Embedded ore.<br \/>\nNaminedamine. Preacher is he:<br \/>\nAll gone. All fallen.<br \/>\nTiny, her tremulous fernfoils of maidenhair.<br \/>\nAmen! He gnashed in fury.<br \/>\nFro. To, fro. A baton cool protruding.<br \/>\nBronzelydia by Minagold.<br \/>\nBy bronze, by gold, in oceangreen of shadow. Bloom. Old Bloom.<br \/>\nOne rapped, one tapped, with a carra, with a cock.<br \/>\nPray for him! Pray, good people!<br \/>\nHis gouty fingers nakkering.<br \/>\nBig Benaben. Big Benben.<br \/>\nLast rose Castile of summer left bloom I feel so sad alone.<br \/>\nPwee! Little wind piped wee.<br \/>\nTrue men. Lid Ker Cow De and Doll. Ay, ay. Like you men. Will lift your tschink with tschunk.<br \/>\nFff! Oo!<br \/>\nWhere bronze from anear? Where gold from afar? Where hoofs?<br \/>\nRrrpr. Kraa. Kraandl.<br \/>\nThen not till then. My eppripfftaph. Be pfrwritt.<br \/>\nDone.<br \/>\nBegin!<\/p>\n<p><em>James Joyce from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodernword.com\/Joyce\/joyce_works_ulysses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ulysses<\/a><\/em><em>, 1922.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, 1920. Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing Imperthnthn thnthnthn. Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. Horrid! And gold flushed more. A husky fifenote blew. Blew. Blue bloom is on the. Goldpinnacled hair. A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile. Trilling, trilling: Idolores. Peep! Who&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/16\/happy-bloomsday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Bloomsday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[135,1410,428],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-james-joyce","tag-sylvia-beach","tag-ulysses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-8V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}