A belated Bloomsday treat – charming full-color typographic quote map of Joyce’s Ulysses, the best thing since these maps and visualizations of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
A belated Bloomsday treat – charming full-color typographic quote map of Joyce’s Ulysses, the best thing since these maps and visualizations of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
In 1969, Nabokov told an interviewer, “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.” Nabokov drew just such a map as part of his lecture notes for Ulysses.
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a good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub (James Joyce, Ulysses)
above: a route through Dublin, using OpenStreetMap, that doesn’t pass a pub
via Maps on Kindle