Fans of James Joyce To Honor Author With Breakfast From "Ulysses"

[matcom]

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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Fans of James Joyce will mark the centenary this year of one of the literary calendar's most famous dates with a breakfast from the Irish author's "Ulysses."

Organizers of "ReJoyce Dublin 2004," a festival in honor of Joyce's modernist classic, plan to dish up a free breakfast for 10,000 people which will require 25,000 pork sausages, 20,000 pigs' kidneys and 12,500 bacon rashers.

The fry-up on Dublin's historic O'Connell Street in June, will also entail 20,000 blood puddings, 15,000 bread rolls, 10,000 tomatoes and 500 kg (1,100 pounds) of butter.

"I came up with the idea three years ago and everyone told me to go away, that I was bonkers," said the originator of the plan, Marie Claire Sweeney, a director of the James Joyce Center in Dublin. "So I'm delighted now to see it becoming a reality." The breakfast aims to commemorate the meal enjoyed by the hero of Joyce's famous novel, Leopold Bloom, whose epic walk around Dublin was set on June 16, 1904 -- a date that has passed into literary legend as "Bloomsday" and has become an annual occasion for Irish revelry.

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[izzie]

1. Will Ashcroft like that? Are the Irish with us or etc etc

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[non sociopath skin]

2. Any chance of a vegetarian alternative ....

... a bottle of Guinness, maybe? :toast:

The Skin

[porkrind]

3. I can't understand what anyone sees in "Ulysses"

It just seemed to be pretentious raving nonsense.
:wtf:
To each, their own, I suppose. :)

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