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Joyce was really into the Atbash cipher.
I wonder if he knew of Girl-Trio, Holy-Slob

MILK--> NROP = PORN backwards

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Yes, the Spokane Lilac Bloomsday Run is held on the first Sunday in May
every year.

This specific timing has nothing to do with James Joyce's literary date
of June 16th; instead, it was chosen for optimal spring weather and to
align with Spokane's month-long Lilac Festival.


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I remember.. that in the 1980's, the word Bloomsday was
still obscure (esoteric, niche) enough that...
its explanation involved a ref to Doomsday.
(Cf. Doomscrolling)



The word Bloomsday was coined by the author [James Joyce]() himself,
though the exact origins involve a few of his closest literary
contemporaries. [1, 2]


The name is a portmanteau of "Bloom" (after Leopold Bloom, the central protagonist of Joyce's 1922 masterpiece Ulysses) and "day". It marks
June 16, 1904rCothe single day in which the entire plot of the novel
takes place. [3, 4]



## EfoL The Paper Trail of the Word

* The First Written Record (1924): The Oxford English Dictionary and
literary historians attribute the first documented use of the term to a
letter written by [James Joyce]() on June 27, 1924, to his patron
Harriet Shaw Weaver. In it, he joyfully mentioned "a group of people who observe what they call Bloom's day rCo 16 June". [3, 5, 6]




* The Early Contenders (1922): While Joyce was the first to write it
down as a formal celebration name, literary circles in Paris had been
using variations of it right after the book's publication.


Poet [Ezra Pound](https://www.google.com/search?q=ezra+pound....) used
the phrase in a January 1922 article, and French critic Valery Larbaud
used it in a review that same April. [1, 6, 7, 8]



* The Publisher's Claim: [Sylvia Beach](https://www.google.com/search?q=sylvia+beach........), the famous proprietor of the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the
original publisher of Ulysses, later claimed that she invented the term
as a marketing strategy to promote the book. [1, 9]

Ultimately, while the term organically swirled around the French
avant-garde scene in 1922, it was James Joyce's 1924 letter that
codified "Bloom's day" into the cultural lexicon. [1, 3]


Would you like to know more about how the very first Bloomsday was
celebrated in Dublin, or are you interested in how the book's June 16th
date was chosen?

[1] [https://www.theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/16/bloomsday-a-history-of-dedication-and-heavy-drinking)
[2] [https://www.theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/16/bloomsday-a-history-of-dedication-and-heavy-drinking)
[3] [https://wordhistories.net](https://wordhistories.net/2021/07/22/bloomsday/) [4]
[https://en.wiktionary.org](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bloomsday)
[5] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday)
[6] [https://www.completeulysses.com](http://www.completeulysses.com/about/origins-of-bloomsday/)
[7] [https://www.newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/james-joyces-bloomsday-becomes-a-zoomsday)
[8] [https://www.myirishjeweler.com](https://www.myirishjeweler.com/blog/what-is-bloomsday/)
[9] [https://www.nypl.org](https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/06/13/bloomsday-berg-collection)


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