10 Membranes

Joycean Brick

An incredibly cool thing has just happened. An esteemed relative of mine, an Irish translator and writer, has just sent me possibly the world’s most awesome gift: a brick from James Joyce’s house. When the house was being demolished a barrister bought up all the bricks and then gave them out to friends, one of which has now been kindly sent to me.

Joyce is one of my literary heroes. Cancel that: is my all time great literary hero. Words fail to express quite how cool this is. The Bloomian brick shall be treasured forever. I am intensely excited. Shouts out to MM!

Time to reread Ulysses methinks…