JJ BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FEBRUARY 2018

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by Robert Berry from Joyce Resources Bucknnell website EVENT FREE - RESERVATIONS REQUESTED

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JAMES JOYCE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT OLLI

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2, 2018

IN LECTURE HALL (CLASSROOM A) AT 4801 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE NW:

  • 10:30 AM - Reading of Wandering Rocks Episode from Ulysses

  • 12:30 PM - Lunch/Birthday Party (in Social Space on 5th Floor)

  • 1:30 PM - Showing of A Portrait of the Artist (1977 film directed by Joseph Strick)

2018 BIRTHDAY READERS:

Katy Adams

Robert Aubry Davis

Marilyn Glysteen

Christopher Griffin

Bob Hausman

Enid Hyde

Walter Kamiat

Bob Kolodney

Sarel Kromer

Sandy Leibowitz

Jim Norton

David Palmeter

Mary Poole

Susan Willens

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS BELOW :

DRAFT PROGRAM

MAP OF WANDERING ROCKS EPISODE (P 2 OF PROGRAM)

SCRIPT (WORD AND PDF VERSIONS)

EXTRAS (ADDITIONAL PASSAGES - FOR READING IF TIME ALLOWS)

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UNIVERSAL PRAISE FOR WANDERING ROCKS:

Wandering Rocks is a window into the world of Ulysses1

Wandering Rocks enabled me to look into the soul of James Joyce”2

“If Wandering Rocks had existed, it would have enabled me to become President”3

“Reading Wandering Rocks decided me in favor of independence for India”4

“I loved it”5

1. Bob Kolodney, Analects of OLLI

2. George W. Bush, Decision Points

3. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography

4. Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm

5. Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope