Subject: Re: Ulysses: The Movie
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 11:51:01 EDT
It's ironic that the one only-half-tepid-at-best
Joycean around these parts appears also to be
the sole witness of the Strick 'Ulysses'.
Sure. Remember seeing it in the Astor, the old
art movie house (as you colonials put it) next door
to the ice cream parlour on O'Connell street, a hundred
or so yards on your left after the Bridge as we strolled
of an evening, past all the fine whores, under the eye
of the one handed adulterer on our way to the evening's
deliveries & revels in the Rotunda.
I remember seeing it, all right, though not as much
about it as the Melancholy Babies we consumed
afterwards or the pints of Black G we drank beforehand.
You can take my word for it, though. Everyone declared
it to be absolutely wizard, fabbo, unrepeatable ... And its
speedy censoring wholly typical of the malign, bog-ignorant
repression then exercised on all of us, Prot & Mick alike,
by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid
- a chap, believe me, who would have made Attorney Ashcroft
look like the Blessed Eleanor's latest girl friend.
Talk about free speech. My heart goes out to all of you.
I hope contingency plans are in place against that terrible
day when the storm troopers arrive outside the NYT &
Miss Dowd & her henchmen are marched off in chains.
Scottie B.
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