Bloomsday and Twitter

Happy Bloomsday, from all of us at Slaw!

Oddly, there’s no plan to tweet the whole of Ulysses in 140 character chunks. And neither is there a #bloomsday hashtag. Twitter fail? To get things started, here are the first 140 characters of that fabulous novel:

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead,
bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
A yellow dressingg

You can find the rest of the book online (Joyce’s books are in the public domain now in Canada) at Finnegan’s Web.