A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize https://t.co/pZNHO9Fgw4 via @newyorker

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 11, 2016

.@TeresaMannion passionate @rte report from Salthill in Galway as Storm Desmond battered the Irish coast, Dec 5 2015 https://t.co/OJtdJUIgZn

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 9, 2016

Via @NPR: Novelist Zadie Smith On Historical Nostalgia And The Nature Of Talent https://t.co/qjGs3tiKPU

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 6, 2016

Northside story by Roddy Doyle
from FT Weekend Hidden Cities with Google https://t.co/ajvG3uh9bo

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 2, 2016

“God help us!"
A Pedestrian's View of #Dublin Traffic @RTEArchiveshttps://t.co/IWxF4XmhVc

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) December 3, 2016

#WhatHappensNextIsThis - @stagestricken met with @Neil_Murray57 & @MCLAREN_G to talk through our programme for 2017. https://t.co/fX4tfX2zDJ

— Abbey Theatre (@AbbeyTheatre) November 29, 2016

The Dancer & the Dance
Swing Time
by Zadie Smith @nybooks https://t.co/PCmBTDFEJP

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) November 23, 2016

Ulysses

Purchased: in Dublin, June 1975. Read: finally cover to cover in Nanaimo, October 2016. "And now my last evening. A day of some walking and shopping and pleasure at being able to get around this city (and pleasure that I don't have to stay and try to support myself here). A shower. The most wonderful refreshing thing. And a very beautifully bound and set copy of Ulysses. A present to me. Wishing me all the best.” Encountered: Bergman and Fellini; Flann O’Brien (and Myles na Gcopaleen) and Monty Python and Terry Gilliam; much mocking and sneering and hilarious parodies; grand scale opera-on-acid featuring bizarre kaleidoscopic hallucinations with detailed staging and costume direction; Lewis Carrol, Alice and Wonderland (“First the verdict and then the trial!”); several different narrators and voices and an unseen examiner who asks dozens of questions that might be found on a college exam (In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?); and the stunning brilliant Molly Bloom soliloquy that I saw Siobhán McKenna perform at the Gate Theatre on O'Connell Street in 1975. Ulysses.

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I “acquired” this Anthony Burgess book on Joyce years ago. There’s a card in it indicates that apparently I was supposed to return it to the Mount Pleasant Library in 1972. Burgess points out as many have that Ulysses is a great comic novel. It served as a useful guide and there’s a vast number of resources on line to bring perspective and road maps into the reading of Ulysses. Burgess calls it a labyrinth. 

"Ulysses is a book to own, a book to live with, to borrow it is probably worth than useless, for the sense of urgency imposed by a time-limit for reading it fights against the book’s slow pace, a leisurely music that requires an unhurried ear and yields little to the cursory, newspaper-nurtured eye… Ulysses is, like Paradise Lost, an auditory work and the sounds carry the sense… [T]he whole book has a spatial scheme in which time has been divested of its bullying hurry-along authority… Time is the great enemy, and books like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake triumphantly trounce it. Time has to be put in its place. 

Ulysses, then, is a labyrinth which we can enter at any point, once we have satisfied ourselves as to its general plan and purpose.. it is a book for the bedside." Chapter 12. The Bedside Labyrinth.

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Eimear McBride on her fine novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and reading Ulysses when she was 25 —

My hero: Eimear McBride on James Joyce https://t.co/nrdt5CPuUf

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) November 16, 2016

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Time to share a clip from @AlPurdyWasHere—#LeonardCohen reading Al's "Necropsy of Love," an ode to love and death https://t.co/5PVwjDEFoE

— Brian D. Johnson (@briandjohnson) November 14, 2016

From the 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen. 

Sisters of Mercy

Oh, the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long

Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul
Well, I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned

Well, they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that and besides, it would still be all right
We weren't lovers like that and besides, it would still be all right

The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats

@Frances_Coppola @yaakovkatz Here. pic.twitter.com/C4I1US899C

— Hassan Mirakhor (@MirakhorHassan) November 10, 2016

Explore the history of photography through 250,000 photos and artifacts at @EastmanMuseum: https://t.co/sfrfuEdDHm via @ResearchBuzz pic.twitter.com/ABja6BmtK3

— John Overholt (@john_overholt) November 6, 2016

The Modello is a medium bodied red from some exciting, indigenous varieties. Try it with roasted pork. Grape varieties: local grapes, mainly Refosco and Ramoso.

Masi Agricola Lands made for wine. The Venetian regions have always been ideal for viticulture, thanks to the huge variety of historically recognised terroir sites.

Masi has selected the best vineyard sites in foothill and hillside locations, paying particular attention to the development of single vineyard, or cru, wines which express the excellence of individual high quality vineyard sites and consequently have their own unique characteristics.


VENETO ROSSO - MASI MODELLO DELLE VENEZIE | BC Liquor Stores

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Swing Time by Zadie Smith review – an unflinching portrait of friendship https://t.co/2hAsMvS9IE

— Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) November 4, 2016

Knowledge Network: Andrew Graham-Dixon concludes his exploration of The High Art of the Low Countries... Parts one and two here: https://www.knowledge.ca/program/high-art-low-countries

Pedro Almodóvar on Luis García Berlanga, one of the titans of Spanish cinema, and the director’s obscurity abroad: https://t.co/TMuND8awA7 pic.twitter.com/EA4v1FN3wa

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) October 24, 2016

The James Joyce Quarterly

The James Joyce Quarterly was founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, who was the journal’s editor for its first twenty-five years. Beginning as a modest publication of forty pages, the JJQ grew in size and quality under Staley’s guidance and was soon unchallenged as the journal of record on the life and writings of James Joyce. More at: Home - James Joyce Quarterly

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Rebecca Solnit’s third and final urban atlas—a guide to NYC—reminds readers maps are not facts, but starting points https://t.co/dvn0JtZOw1 pic.twitter.com/hgMXewJtrl

— CityLab (@CityLab) October 19, 2016

Author Joseph Boyden on writing the story of Chanie Wenjack https://t.co/6dKur0iSt0 #globebooks

— Globe Books (@globebooks) October 19, 2016

Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses https://t.co/5LtPLQMMsc pic.twitter.com/e1NO4Ry9IH

— Open Culture (@openculture) October 19, 2016

Eimear McBride on Martin John via @nytimesbooks 'Deploying some serious literary gumption' #GoldsmithsPrize2016 https://t.co/BjmtcgFZmf

— The Goldsmiths Prize (@GoldsmithsPrize) October 6, 2016

"[The Booker] judges might have thought this a more flawed book than the densely perfect A Girl… In the closing sections… there is no longer the sense I admired in the first half."

The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride review – a brilliant evocation of sex and intimacy https://t.co/UUAsk3N6Ke

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) October 18, 2016

I was disappointed that through the middle section of The Lessor Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to have lost her way. It’s too long and doesn’t ring true. The author tells us in detail about the older man more than the character she has created reveals himself in ways we have to discover for ourselves. He’s delivered prefab and dropped into place. Unfortunately she doesn’t recover her footing, even needlessly revisiting Stephen's too-sharp self knowledge in the last scenes.

From NPR Books — Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer On Marriage, Religion And Universal Balances https://t.co/jOtF4AMCvb

— NPR Books (@nprbooks) October 14, 2016

RT @PenguinCanada
6 Short and Sweet Opinions on City Life From #JaneJacobs via @SignatureReads https://t.co/yIfO9ZmwTM

— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) October 14, 2016

A Q&A with Robert Kanigel on His Biography of #JaneJacobs via @SignatureReads https://t.co/OFPF3OOpHj

— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) October 14, 2016

My hero: Eimear McBride on James Joyce

Joyce really set my universe on its end. Reading Ulysses changed everything I thought about language, and everything I understood about what a book could do. I was on a train on the way to a boring temp job when I was about 25; I got on at Tottenham, north London, and opened the first page of Ulysses. When I got off at Liverpool Street in central London, I don't think it is an exaggeration to say the entire course of my life had changed. Although he is viewed as terribly serious and cerebral, so much of the pleasure of reading Joyce is the fun he has and the risks he takes with language; there is nothing quite so enjoyable as the much-maligned Joycean pun. More at: My hero: Eimear McBride on James Joyce | Books | The Guardian

Review: In her new novel The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride shows she’s an astute, sensitive chronicler of youth https://t.co/gJIykQ3pRz

— Globe Books (@globebooks) October 12, 2016

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In 1935 the artist #HenriMatisse, was commissioned to illustrate an edition of #JamesJoyce's Ulysses https://t.co/eP3yfafwrA @openculture pic.twitter.com/effGhuG6tR

— Vintage/Anchor Books (@VintageAnchor) October 11, 2016

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon 1985.
By Californian photographer Annie Leibovitz. A homage to 'Some like it hot' pic.twitter.com/egi3FVshsf

— Female Artists (@liadearistegui) September 29, 2016

Happy Birthday Flann O'Brien

Ulysses Chapter 13 — Nausicaa

The moth joke

World Cup 2018 qualifiers

I classici dell’arte si animano con la magia digitale

Ulysses: cast of characters

Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend, Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of Zeno's Conscience.
Molly Bloom, the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not.

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero[1] of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus appears in Ulysses as the character who corresponds to Telemachus; less overtly, he embodies aspects of Hamlet. He is the protagonist of the first three chapters. Subsequently

Leopold Bloom is introduced, and Stephen's interactions with Bloom and his wife, Molly, form much of the final chapters' substance. More: List of Ulysses characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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#TBT: Bill Murray Gives a Delightful Reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn https://t.co/gv7fxXl0Vb via @openculture pic.twitter.com/RDpU3vityh

— Vintage/Anchor Books (@VintageAnchor) September 29, 2016

"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring." Irish poet AE (George William Russell) to Stephen Dedalus. Dedalus expands on his Hamlet theory in conversation at the National Library.

ROUSSILLON VILLAGES -
CHAPOUTIER BILA HAUT

A blend of mainly Grenache follow by Syrah and Carignan, this red wine has aromas of fresh herbs, raspberry and spice. Enjoy this wine with lemon garlic chicken or herbed pork tenderloin. Côtes-du-Roussillon Villages M.CHAPOUTIER

VINHO VERDE - CASAL GARCIA

Effervescent. 9.5%. Slightly sweet.
With Myra's fish tacos.

The Elegant, Serious Side of Vinho Verde - WSJ  There are two things to know about Vinho Verde, a wine-drinking friend once told me: It's cheap and it's fun. He was right. And he wasn't. The soft, fizzy Portuguese white is the epitome of an easy-drinking, inexpensive wine—perfect for summer. But Vinho Verde can be a lot more.

"The hardest thing about writing is persisting.” I spoke to Jonathan Safran Foer about his new novel, Here I Am. https://t.co/zjqeQu9hYo

— Mark Medley (@itsmarkmedley) September 3, 2016

Rob Naish

For approximately the last 6 months, I have been working on a painting C.E.R.N. City, which is part of my continuing series called "The Dynamics Of Urbanization".

This is a small part of the creative process.

96" x 96"
acrylic on canvas

Two More Pints / Roddy Doyle

The Lesser Bohemians / Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride’s follow-up to ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’ is a more hopeful thing https://t.co/P8f349MpCG pic.twitter.com/VFXTcqwT2y

— Irish Times Books (@IrishTimesBooks) September 2, 2016

Eimear McBride, Winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014

Wonderful review by Lara Feigel of Eimear McBride's followup to A Girl is a Half-formed Thinghttps://t.co/dCaVyYbWjy

— Justine Jordan (@justine_jordan) September 2, 2016

Eimear McBride: how I wrote A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing https://t.co/msN4vlpQgv

— The Guardian (@guardian) September 10, 2016

“One great part of every human existence is passed in a state

which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot” — James Joyce

Steve Coogan playing Martin Sixmith in his film Philomena: "Fucking Catholics."

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Alex Bozikovic in The Globe — Canada's most ambitious new public building is a Montreal soccer stadium

I visit @SaucierPerrotte’s spectacular soccer stadium in Montreal: https://t.co/3cQzXvwhBr @globeandmail pic.twitter.com/BNVwC5KB6K

— Alex Bozikovic (@alexbozikovic) August 27, 2016

Read more: Canada's most ambitious new public building is a Montreal soccer stadium - The Globe and Mail

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Bharti Kher talks to OPEN magazine, India in depth about her art practice.

ROUSSILLON BLANC - CHAPOUTIER BILA HAUT

Made from three lesser known grape varietals, namely Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris and Macabeu, this crisp citrus blend shows dried peach and apricot notes on this special white wine. Try with rich shellfish. Côtes du Roussillon AOC Domaine de Bila-Haut Macabeo (Viura)

CHARTRON LA FLEUR - SCHRODER & SCHALER

Bordeaux Sauvignon Blanc pale straw colour and delightful aromatics with hints of garrigue. http://www.bcliquorstores.com/product/626341

This summer I swam in a public place
And a reservoir to boot

At the latter I was informal
At the former I wore my suit.

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) May 15, 2016

Okanagan Pinot Noirs vs Oregon's Willamette Valley

BOURGOGNE CHARDONNAY - 

LOUIS LATOUR 

Wafting aromas of yellow plum lead to silky flavours of fresh cantaloupe and lemon layered with vanilla, cream and nuts. This classic regional wine is beautifully balanced, judiciously oaked and charming.

http://www.bcliquorstores.com/product/55533

End of summer cool climate whites — 

PINOT GRIGIO - MEZZACORONA http://www.bcliquorstores.com/product/312801

End of summer cool climate whites —  

RIESLING - SELBACH MOSEL
http://www.bcliquorstores.com/product/23242

Happy Birthday to me...

Acrobat Pinot Noir 2013 (Oregon) 

SCORE: 91 PRICE: $24.29 

Pinot noir rises to its greatest heights in Burgundy. Unfortunately, red Burgundy also tends to rise to great heights price-wise Fortunately, there are compelling examples of this light yet complex red grape from elsewhere, including Canada and New Zealand. 

This one’s from King Estate in Oregon, whose wine-maker, Kevin Sommelet, was born in Alsace and raised in Burgundy. Seductively supple in texture, it offers suggestions of cherry pie filling, caramel, and beetroot-like earthiness, finishing with lively acidity. — Beppi