100th Bloomsday anniVERSary

[Art Neuendorffer]

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           BloomsDay of James Joyce's _Ulysses_:
     Thursday June 16, 1904 exactly 301 (52 week "years")
          after Oxford's death Thursday June 24, 1604

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S.D. Can't WEAR GREY until a year & a day: June 24, 1604

 

  <<de Vere: originally spelled both "Wier" & "WEAR".>>
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/chapter5.htm
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                  _Ulysses_ by Joyce

 

Their WIGS to show the GREY matter. Brains on their sleeve like
the statue in Glasnevin. Believe he does some literary work for
the Express with Gabriel Conroy. Wellread fellow. Myles Crawford
began on the Independent. Funny the way those newspaper men

 VEER about when they get wind of a new opening.
                . . . . . .
 He turned abruptly his GREY searching eyes from the sea
  to Stephen's face.

 

 -- The aunt thinks you killed your mother, he said.
 That's why she won't let me have anything to do with you.

 

 -- Someone killed her, Stephen said gloomily.

 

 -- You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother
 asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I'm hyperborean as much as you. But to
think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and
 pray for her. And you refused. There is something sinister in you....

 

 He broke off and lathered again lightly his farther cheek.
        A tolerant smile curled his lips.

 

 -- But a lovely mummer! he murmured to himself.
      Kinch, the loveliest mummer of them all!

 

    Buck Mulligan attacked the hollow beneath his underlip.

 

 -- The mockery of it, he said contentedly. Secondleg they should be.
 God knows what poxy bowsy left them off. I have a lovely pair with
 a hair stripe, GREY. You'll look spiffing in them. I'm not joking,
 Kinch. You look damn well when you're dressed.

 

 -- Thanks, Stephen said. I can't WEAR them if they are GREY.

 

 -- He can't WEAR them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror.
      He kills his mother but he can't WEAR GREY trousers.
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Gray's Inn Alumni
                                         Admitted to Gray's Inn
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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford             1567   age 17
Francis Bacon    __________                Sept.1576   age 15
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd E. of South.:_      July 1590   age 17
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland:        Feb. 1598   age 21
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Gray's Inn (London) was the inn or mansion of the Lords Gray.
It was one of the four London legal societies having the
  exclusive right to admit persons to practice at the bar.

The Old Hall at:   Lincoln's Inn dates from 1490,
                      Gray's Inn dates from 1556,
               and Middle Temple dates from 1573.
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_The Comedy of Errors_ had its first recorded performance
         at Gray's Inn, 28 December 1594.

        http://www.entrenet.com/~groedmed/hampton.html
<<There remain, of course, the Halls of Gray's Inn and of the Middle
Temple, in the first of which there is record of a performance, in 1594
on Innocents Day at night, of the "Comedy of Errors"; and in the second,
in 1602 on Candlemas Day at night, of "Twelfth Night.">>
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Northumberland MS. prominently displays the following phrase:
         "The Orations at Gray's Inn revels"

<<The Gray's Inn Revels are, no doubt, those of I594-5
     of which the history is related in the Gesta Grayorum.>>
         http://home.att.net/~tleary/northclb.htm
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   http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/l%26c_fut1.html
<<Paul Raffield, "The Separate Art Worlds of Dreamland and Drunkenness:
Elizabethan Revels at the Inns Of Court", Law and Critique VIII/2
(1997), 163-188: This paper examines the conflicting interests of Apollo
and Dionysis, as represented by the extraordinary Inns' of Court
Christmas Revels, held at the Inner Temple in 1561 and at Gray's Inn

 in 1594. During these prolonged periods of fasting, the Revellers create

a microcosmic Utopian State, in which the primitive life-force of Dionysus
is tempered by the ordered dreamland of Apollo. Destructive natural
forces are contained and repressed by the imposition of laws. Gerard
Legh's The Accedens of Armory and William Dugdale's Origines
Juridiciales provide the source material for the Inner Temple Revels,
and Gesta Grayorum is an anonymous account of the Gray's Inn Revels.
Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy provides the theoretical background to
the comparison made in this paper between the Apollonian world of
pictures and the mystical cheer of Dionysus. The arcane rules governing
feasting and the Revels attempt to resolve the conflict between order
and freedom: the compelling rights and duties of the individual citizen
on the one hand, and the interests of the State on the other. The Revels
provide striking visual images of virtue and honour. These images are
symbols not only of the law's power and fairness, but also of the
patriarchy which the law seeks to uphold, and of the unchanging
certainties which that patriarchy represents.>>
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   http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/chapman/chapman11.html

<<George Chapman(1557-1634)'s _Odyssey_, originally published in folio,
1614-16, either from the limited number of the impression, or the more
than ordinary ravages of time, has become so rare as to be inaccessible
to the general reader, and comparatively unknown to the more curious
student of old English literature. . . In 1618 appeared "The Georgics of
Hesiod, translated elaborately out of the Greek;" a thin 4to. volume,
also now very rare. Elton, who, from his own noble version of Hesiod,
was a competent judge, pronounces it "close, vigorous, and elegant."
(Habington's Castara, p. 155, ed. Elton, Bristol.) It has commendatory
verses by Ben Jonson and Drayton, and is dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon,
Lord Chancellor, who had been a student of Gray's Inn.

 Chapman puns on the lines-- 

"GRAIIS INGENIUM, GRAIIS DEDIT ORE ROTUNDO MUSA LOQUI."

"Why may not this Romane elogie of the Grecians extend in praisefull
intention (by waye of prophetick poesie) to Graies-Inne wits and
orators?" In 1619 was printed "Two wise Men, and all the rest Fooles," a
comedy, or, as the title styles it, A Comical Moral, censuring the
Follies of this Age." There is a peculiarity about this play, if it may
be so called, which is remarkable. It is extended to seven acts, instead
of five. "It is, however, on tradition only that this piece is ranked
among Chapman's writing; it being published without any author's name,
or even so much as a mention of the place where it was printed."
(Biograph. Dramat.) In 1622 we have a small poem, "Pro Vere Autumni
Lachrymæ," to the memory of Sir Horatio Vere.>>
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Art Neuendorffer