The Earnest Reader: The Definitive Indefinite Article is proud to present its first annual Bloomsday reading of Ulysses by James Joyce.
The Concerned Reader: If brevity be the soul of it, read on. Do your worst.
The Earnest Reader: [Reads]
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came across from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing
The Concerned Reader: That’s it, right?
The Earnest Reader: Yep! Thats twiterature, 140 characters.
The Concerned Reader: You know there are readings that go on all day and night, with famous actors and the like.
The Earnest Reader: I know. And there is nothing to stop me doing this bit of twiterature over and over in different voices. [Reads in bad Ian McKellan impression]
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came across from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing
The Concerned Reader: Please stop now!
The Earnest Reader: Or this, one of those salt of the eeeearth Northside Dubbelin accents loike Misther Jice had:
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came across from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing
The Concerned Reader: Is this the fusebox?
The Earnest Reader: I think it is. Have you ever heard me do Al Pacino?
[Click. Darkness. Silence]
June 16, 2009 at 10:43 am
talk about different ends of the spectrum — thanks for the post
June 16, 2009 at 11:00 am
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June 16, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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June 16, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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June 16, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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Please join us tonight on the top of any building for a special presentation of Joyce’s Ulysses by flag semaphore, lit by torches actually made in Dublin. Midnight, any building.
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June 17, 2009 at 9:04 am
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June 17, 2009 at 9:50 am
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