The beginning of Ulysses as it appeared on Twitter June, 16, 2011. In honor of Bloomsday, the novel is being tweeted in 140 character increments @11ysses
This is not the first time the paths of Twitter and Ulysses crossed. In 2007, before Twitter was a household name, the folks at Booktwo.org tweeted the entire novel. It took 257 days! See more at our piece from Dec. ’07, The Twitter Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The portrait of Leopold Bloom above is from Ulysses “Seen”. A new adaptation of the novel in comic book form by Robert Barry as a free app for the iPad.
And while we are dealing with adaptions of Joyce’s work. It is hard to pass up some of the work of Australian artist Nicci Haynes:
Oh, by the way, in 2009 a copy of the 100 copy limited edition of Ulysses sold for £275,000 (about $440,000), which at the time was the highest price on record for a 20th century first edition.
Happy Bloomsday!