by Catriona Mills

Putting Knowledge Of Classic Books To Use in Pubs

Posted 10 October 2008 in by Catriona

Several years ago, now, but alas, not in a trivia competition:

SLIGHTLY INTOXICATED GENTLEMAN AT BAR: You celebrating something, love?
ME: Yep.
SLIGHTLY INTOXICATED GENTLEMAN AT BAR: What’s that?
ME: Oh, I just graduated with my Honours degree.
SLIGHTLY INTOXICATED GENTLEMAN AT BAR: What in?
ME: English Literature.
SLIGHTLY INTOXICATED GENTLEMAN AT BAR: Great! Can you give me a synopsis of James Joyce’s Ulysses in a single sentence?
ME: I . . . can try.

True story.

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John wrote at Oct 13, 02:43 am

Leopold Bloom wakes up, meets with a bunch of people, attends a funeral, thinks a lot about life and destiny, tries hard not to think about that, gets pissed, goes home, goes to bed.

Easy, really…

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