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Jun 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is beautifully made. The ingenuity of language, the commonality of its appreciation & respect. I hope everyone has happy #Bloomsday this year, wherever you are. I will celebrate it as I always do, by staying home & doing nothing.

& by nothing I mean working.
This passage has been one of the greatest influences on me as a would be writer, not in style but in the possibility & magic of language. For as difficult as Joyce can be sometimes, we are eternally rewarded with moments such as this.
'Listen: a foreworded wavespeech: seesoo hrss, rsseeiss, ooos. Vehement breath of waters amid seasnakes, rearing horses, rocks. In cups of rocks it slops: flop, slop, slap: bounded in barrels. It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.'
& the obligatory 'and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower...and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.'

Happy #Bloomsday2022

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