Today marks the 100th anniversary of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce. In 2004, Christopher Hitchens reflected on the revolutionary novel, the star of a Joycean universe that was 'a torrent of puns, palindromes, parallels, parodies, and plagiarisms.' VFArchive
surly English overseer is standing at the entrance to a construction site in London. It's a filthy, wet day. He sees approaching him a shabby figure, with clay pipe clenched in mouth and a battered raincoat, and scowlingly thinks, Another effing Mick on the scrounge. The Irishman shambles up to him and asks if there's any casual job going."You don't look to me," says the supervisor,"as if you know the difference between a girder and a joist.
A century later, the literary world will celebrate the hundredth"Bloomsday," in honor of the very first time the great James Joyce received a handjob from a woman who was not a prostitute. I shall be returning to self-abuse as a theme , but I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel,published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences.
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