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From the day when the events in Joyce's Ulysses take place--June 16, 1904. The main character is called Leopold Bloom, thus Bloomsday. There's also a part in the surrealist Circe section where Bloom, emperor president and king chairman of Ireland, commands a new Bloomusalem to be built, so there's nothing knew about forming silly puns from Bloom. It is ever flowering and fertile.
Also, you can search for "Bloomsday device" on the Onion site and you'll find a short "news" item combining Joyce and Dr. Strangelove references. Insane, but in a good way.
Bloomsday should be celebrated in Montreal too. And in Daisyworld, of course. (I wonder how you'd write the code for that. I'm not a really tech-ish person, myself.) In MTL, the lilacs smell very good this time of year. I don't know if limiting flower colours to black and white affects their smell. (/insert appropriate Shakespeare quote here)
There, see, HTML-ish-ness! And how's that for a quick ride by epitomeboat on the stream_of_consciousness? Not exactly Joycean, but what can you do...
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