In honor of our pals Mark and Amy, who are getting wed this Sunday, I thought we'd make this week's Quiz a Bloomsday-themed event. And because I haven't eaten yet, it's also a culinary question.
In Joyce's Ulysses, Leopold Bloom lunches on a Gorgonzola sandwich, but what does he eat for breakfast?
Leave that dogeared Modern Library edition on the shelf, no Googling, and, if you don't remember, guess with Joycean brio. The first correct answer, posted to comments, wins a gorgonzola sandwich, on me, the next time we meet.
By the way, why don't they have a literature geek on Beat the Geeks? All right, I suppose I know the answer to that, but I prefer to think it's just a bizarre oversight on the part of the producers.
Posted by BT at June 14, 2002 09:21 AMhaving run to catch the bus why does it always smell this way when it is about to rain and what did i eat for breakfast, this may be cheating a little but i really don't know the answer but i did find this amusing tongue-in-cheek site which i allowed myself to enjoy despite my intolerance for all "___ for Dummies" products: Ulysses for Dummies (mentions b-fast, but does not give away the answer).
Posted by: teenidol on June 14, 2002 10:56 AMLike Cerebus, he has a raw potato.
Posted by: Gavin on June 14, 2002 11:51 AMI don't remember exactly, but maybe this will help someone else: he digs eating the internal organs of small animals. Also, his cat is around, but is not consumed.
Posted by: hackly_fracture on June 14, 2002 12:01 PMAh, Mr. Fracture -- always so helpful and community-minded.
I actually thought this one would wind up being too easy.
Posted by: BT on June 14, 2002 01:50 PMMy brain spontaneously produced the word "kidneys." Can that possibly be right?
Posted by: Kathleen on June 14, 2002 01:51 PMOh, and Ulysses for Dummies is excellent. Although the summary of Molly's closing soliloquy is, perhaps, a little misleading.
Posted by: BT on June 14, 2002 01:51 PMAh, the professional weighs in...years of writing about sophisticated cultural issues have not put any cracks in the foundation of Dr. Fitzpatrick's literary-trivial knowledge base. Kidney it is, giving off a "fine tang of faintly scented urine."
Congratulations, Kathleen; next time you're in town, the gorgonzola's on me.
Posted by: BT on June 14, 2002 02:11 PMEeeh. Sophisticated cultural issues, indeed. Like "who's more annoying, Franzen or Oprah?" Last time I read Joyce was for the exams, back in -- what -- 95? Nice to know such trivia remains intact beneath the weighty considerations of my chosen field.
I'll look you up next time I'm up yonder and looking to collect.
Posted by: Kathleen on June 14, 2002 02:28 PMBrains! too many brains!
Posted by: bootsy on June 14, 2002 03:22 PM