tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31814332.post4065593743368428595..comments2015-12-21T02:31:00.291-08:00Comments on The Shebeen: Happy Bloomsday!Relucent Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12414827898661535555noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31814332.post-75587528930927232992009-06-23T01:45:42.984-07:002009-06-23T01:45:42.984-07:00Wow! There's so much important stuff in your c...Wow! There's so much important stuff in your comment that I am having to shelve my proposed post and devote a replacement entirely to answering the points you raise. You may even compel me to exceed my self-imposed 300-word limit. But first I must clean the inside of the car, mucked up by that same dipstick-interested grandson during the two 800-mile journeys that bracketed the holiday.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31814332.post-50156734933320586442009-06-22T13:25:13.561-07:002009-06-22T13:25:13.561-07:00Timing is all: watched a snippet (never seen all o...Timing is all: watched a snippet (never seen all of it) of Master and Commander: Far Side of the World. Thought of you and your namesake. Did not know Billy Boyd played him, I guess coxswains can be slight, if they are efficient.<br />Tried reading one of O'Brian's titles, could not get into it. I enjoyed the Hornblower series when I was a Midshipman's age; as soon as my just ordered "Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea" arrives ( princely sum of $7.98 for a $41.00 new book, my Yankee side comin' out), I'll make another run on the series.<br />Never have been to France, would love to some time, tho the Missus is less enthusiastic about the prospect. In this land of 3.2 beer, Belgian beer is a treat: I am allowed 1 alcoholic drink, and enjoy a good beer. I take notes on your wine suggestions, as I know nothing of wine;I do enjoy a glass of the liquid sunshine.<br />Some passages in Ulysses lend themselves to reading aloud, and at least in Boston it was a bit of a tradition on The Day.I once recommended to one of my booktalkers to try reading Chapter 7 of Kidnapped (not much dialect for Americans to trip over) aloud to a class; I was a big fan of reading aloud when I had the breath. Used to do it weekly for my captive audience at the Juvenile detention center. <br />Glad to have you back, missed your poems and prose.Relucent Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12414827898661535555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31814332.post-73430010839788986532009-06-21T09:29:39.586-07:002009-06-21T09:29:39.586-07:00Just back from the Languedoc where the temperature...Just back from the Languedoc where the temperatures reduced the potable options to <em>rosé</em> and Leffe blonde, a superb Belgian beer. I didn't read it aloud but I did take Ulysses with me and I now realise that - willy nilly - I was immersing myself in its luxuries on Bloomsday. A veritable epiphany. Thanks for the reminder. On the long drive back the weather was cooler and I symbolically finished off the holiday after dinner with 1973 armagnacs all round. I'm sure the the Dedalus/Bloom duo would have approved.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com