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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20040624
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Byline: Douglass Dowty Contributing writer
It's fitting that the "Bloomsday" tribute to James Joyce's "Ulysses" is a two-day event.
For about 80 Syracuse Joyce fanatics, the book has become larger than life. Roughly 750 pages and 25,000 lines, the novel proved a gargantuan task for the group who convened June 15 and 16 at Johnston's BallyBay Pub in Syracuse. The Joyce classic recounts one ordinary day in Dublin, Ireland, exactly one century ago from this year's official Bloomsday: June 16, 1904.
To make the task of reading the book more manageable, members of the ...
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