Bloom's Day

ok, so today is Bloom's Day....THE day to remember Leopold Bloom as he wandered through Dublin on June 16, 1904, as written by James Joyce in Ulysses.......folks congregate from all over the world on this day in London to follow the convoluted route taken by Bloom in the 24 hours of the novel......the NYTimes had a nice op-ed piece about the book today.....written by a woman who had the chance to read the book cover-to-cover while she was hospitalized for a bone infection.....she felt she knew her long-gone irish grandfather as she read about Bloom's full and very detailed day......I admit to requiring a great deal of support when i read this tome.....downloaded audio lectures, weekly discussions with Joyce scholars....to help me to understand just what i was reading.....ah well......must get on with my day....which is unlikely to be as complicated as Bloom's......