Becky Hogge celebrates a double Bloomsday: not only is it the anniversary of James Joyce’s first, um, date with Nora Barnacle, but also this is the first year in which the text of Ulysses resides in the public domain—at least in the EU.
Category: Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, Michael
I’ve missed a year or two, but I hope today is a special day for you. And I’m glad that the Catalogue of Ships archive is still available.
The origin
Today is Darwin Day, dedicated to the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor.
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No link, just a shout-out: Happy birthday, Doris Eileen.
Sonny
Happy 80th to the Saxophone Colossus, Theodore Walter Rollins.
I will always remember
Happy birthday, Michael. (Listen to episode 17.)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
wood s lot reminds us that it is Gerhard Richter’s birthday.
Onh honh HONH
Surgery or bricklaying
Thanks to a reminder from The Writer’s Almanac, let us remember the birthday of William Faulkner. From Faulkner’s 1956 Paris Review interview:
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
Not for unsteady souls
Happy 90th to living national treasure Merce Cunningham. Alastair Macaulay’s piece for the Times provides the headline for this post. I saw Cunningham with his company in the Eisenhower in 2004.
I remembered to remember
Best wishes from a harmless maniac
wood s lot reminds us that it is James Joyce’s birthday. To which I can only add, from my small trove of bookmarks, this scrapbook of images annotative of Ulysses. Start with the map.
Crossing the line
Happy birthday to Alfred Russel Wallace, author of The Malay Archipelago.
Musical shoe box
Happy birthday to Boston’s Symphony Hall, McKim, Mead & White’s masterpiece of architecture and acoustics.
That was the Tom that was
Happy 80th to 50s mathematician/satirist Tom Lehrer, still with us, if not actively performing. (Link via Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard.)