In Dublin with James Joyce

It's 16 June 1904 and Leopold Bloom, a forty-something Jew, is walking around Dublin, thinking about his unfaithful wife. On the very same day, Stephen Dedalus, a twenty-something Catholic, is walking around Dublin, thinking about his dead mother. The two meet, talk and then go their separate ways.

James Joyce needed 300,000 words just to say that? He did because Ulysses is about something bigger than Dublin. It's about life. "Every life is many days, day after day," says Stephen Dedalus. "We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves."

Tomorrow is Bloomsday, the day when Joyce fans all over the world will read Ulysses, discuss the book or meet in Dublin to eat, drink and remember this great work of modernist literature. So let's talk the talk and walk the walk.