James Joyce, 1882-1941
June 16th, 1904 is a date celebrated by lovers of James Joyce the world over as Bloomsday. It’s the date of the events in James Joyce’s Ulysses as Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin. Joyce first went out with his great love Nora Barnacle on that day.
…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
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