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CARNIVAL of kitsch; Today is Bloomsday -cue a ghastlyweek awash with street performers and silly hats. Why are we allowing greed and frivolity to destroy the proud legacy of James Joyce's great literary masterpiece?

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070616
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Byline: SUSAN O'KEEFFE

IT WAS bearable at first; one solitary breakfast kidney nearly burnt was, in the great scheme of that long Ulysses day in June, hardly worthy of complaint.

Bloom did not go rushing back for more and all seemed well.

Quite a wise decision really given the emotional tumult which ensued.

Sallying between a graveyard and a maternity hospital on a belly overfilled with pork kidneys might have brought a premature end to Bloom's great jaunt around Joyce's beloved Dublin.

No, it was a carefully placed literary kidney, conjuring up, as it still ...

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