Happy Bloomsday

[Dave Monroe]

Mad Lit Professor Puts Finishing Touches On Bloomsday
Device

June 14, 2006 | Issue 42•24

DUBLIN—Professor Hanlon O'Faolin, once called "mad" at
the Royal Irish Academy for attempting to reanimate
the traditional body of Celtic folktales with the
power of elcectic multilingual puns, is readying his
apoplectic Bloomsday Device for activation on June 16.
"Yes! Yes, they laughed at me yes but now yes I will
make them pay and yes!" O'Faolin wrote in a letters to
the Irish Times, promising the destruction of Dublin
on the same day portrayed in Joyce's Ulysses. "When
the sun first strikes the Martello Tower, the first
notes of 'The Rose of Castille' shall ring out, the
streets shall run with rashers, kidneys, and sausages,
and I shall forge in the smithy of Dublin's soul the
uncreated conscience of my race!" Dublin police say
they are working around the clock from profiles to
create a portrait of the professor as a crazy man.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49429

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> Also happy Ivy Day in the committee room . . . .


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