Although Ulysses was written over a span of seven years (1914-1921), the entirety of James Joyce's novel is set in Dublin on a single day, June 16, 1904, when Joyce and Nora Barnacle went on their first date together. A short 27 years later they were married. To commemorate that famous day, here are the opening lines of chapter 4 in which we are introduced to the character of Leopold Bloom:
"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
Delicious.
Additionally, these tit-bits from the Times, the Guardian and the Examiner.
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