Blooms & Barnacles

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Did James Joyce once covertly suggest a new Guinness slogan?

Topics in this episode include Mary Lost the Pin of her Drawers, flat Dublin voices, the Coombe, Bloom’s preoccupation with correct pronoun-antecedent agreement, Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary, a famlus forgery, Ashtown and the trottingmatches, a famous hole in the wall, alcohol has the ultimate lotus, Barons Iveagh and Ardilaun, whether or not Jeff Bezos’ skin produces lice and vermin, whether or not Joyce had a vendetta against the Guinness family, whether or not Joyce tried to outdo the classic slogan “Guinness is good for you”, “James’s Choice”, Joyce’s (possible) Guinness slogan, Guinness references in Finnegans Wake, Joyceans in the upper echelons of the Guinness brewery, Guinness’ embrace of all things James Joyce in the early 80’s, Guinness business woes in the same era, and why one might invent an apocryphal story for fun and profit.

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