bloomsday +100

Is Ulysses an academic work of genius or a long fart joke? Probably both. Some might say that academia is one long fart joke.

I can relate to Leopold Bloom's secret life - going into an masturbatory reverie when he sees a woman flash her leg and he sees all the way up to her garter, wandering around the brothels of Nighttown, trying hard not to think about Molly's rendezvous. And of course Molly's secret life - 'pulling off' her first boyfriends in Gibraltar, musing over the differences between her husband's sex habits and her lover's, refusing Leopold for ten years yet coming over and over with her lover.

Tame by today's standards, but provocative none the less.

Or maybe just a fart joke. Raise a pint anyway.