Leopold Bloom's Longest Day Was Today
By EsqSocial Corporation 16/06/21
On June 16, 1904, Leopold Bloom started his day at No. 7 Eccles Street in Dublin, Ireland with kidneys on his mind. Indeed, his first errand of the day was a trip around the corner to Dlugacz’s for a pork kidney which he found oozing "bloodgouts" on a dish in the window. So began the day that James Joyce immortalized in Ulysses. The novel was banned in the United States until Judge John M. Woolsey decreed that it could be admitted into the country in United States v. One Book Called...
By: Allen Matkins