Playing Music At The Cafe
“History, religion, civilization, the conquest of the universe by man, his pathetic creation of God, all this …
Category Archives: James Joyce
Bloomsday Is An Intellectual Game… Dedalusday A Spiritual Journey
“Bloomsday is an intellectual game… Dedalusday is a spiritual journey.”—Xenon “When Zen gives utterance to itself, it goes against the …
It’s Bloomsday…For The Masses, Dedalusday For The Few
“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses “It’s Bloomsday…for the masses; Dedalusday for …
Mead Of The Muse
“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses No long winded disquisition here. …
Casting… The Dice
Quiet, contemplative days. Forced inactivity a welcome respite from the daily round. Not that the daily round was overly disagreeable. …
Heralds Of A Future Day
“Who ever anywhere will read these written words? Signs on a white field.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses “Where is …
GraceHoper, When You Can Snatch The Pebble From My Hand…
I was a teacher once. I even taught an ex-diplomat, an amazing man who had been Canadian High Commissioner to …
Hardwired For Heroes
Do you here that? bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! It’s the sound of the hero’s fall in James Joyce’s hallucinatory behemoth Finnegans Wake. And …
A Knight’s Tale… Finis
After dinner yesterday I slipped quietly out the back door and rather than stop by the local pub for an …
Hail to GraceHopers, Past and Present
I’m not finished with this idea of the GraceHoper yet, not by a long shot. If you didn’t catch my …
Omphalos Cafe 