WHAT IS SAID OUTWARDLY,

WHAT IS SAID INWARDLY

Quote for Today -June 16, 2011


"The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swifty, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived."


From James Joyce [1882-1941] in Ulysses [1922].  June 16, 1904 is the day James Joyce met Nora Barnacle [1884-1951] - who worked as a chambermaid in Finn's Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. He asked her to cake a walk with him.  The picture on top is a picture of James and Nora walking. I don't know whom the person on the right is. The whole book takes place on just one day. June 16, 1904 is the day chosen for the main character in the book, Leopold Bloom, who goes on his Odyssey through Dublin that day.  The book has about 265,000 words - written in a stream-on-conscious  form. It became a classic 20th Century novel.