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Today is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. The book details an epic day in the life of Leopold Bloom, in the 24-hour span of June 16, 1904.
For decades, Joyce-lovers have been commemorating Bloomsday by eating kidney for breakfast and drinking pints of Guinness, as Bloom does. They also hold marathon readings of the novel.
This year, the commemorations will also include Twitter, where a group of Ulysses enthusiasts has broken the nearly 800-page novel down into bite-sized pieces — each 140 characters long. They'll send the tweets out in what's being called a Bloomsday Burst.
Stephen Cole organized the Ulysses Meets Twitter project by breaking the book into 96 sections, one for each 15 minutes of the day. Then he recruited volunteers to condense the book into tweets, each one representing about eight pages of the book.
Read more here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/16/137205315/tweeting-ulysses-fans-put-a-twist-on-bloomsday
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/16/137205315/tweeting-ulysses-fans-put-a-twist-on-bloomsday
Today is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. The book details an epic day in the life of Leopold Bloom, in the 24-hour span of June 16, 1904.
This year, the commemorations will also include Twitter, where a group of Ulysses enthusiasts has broken the nearly 800-page novel down into bite-sized pieces — each 140 characters long. They'll send the tweets out in what's being called a Bloomsday Burst.
Stephen Cole organized the Ulysses Meets Twitter project by breaking the book into 96 sections, one for each 15 minutes of the day. Then he recruited volunteers to condense the book into tweets, each one representing about eight pages of the book.
Read more here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/16/137205315/tweeting-ulysses-fans-put-a-twist-on-bloomsday
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