Bloomsday "Penelope" at the San Francisco Public Library
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2016-07-06

Wilde Irish Productions reads the opening of Episode 18 "Penelope" as part of Bloomsday 2016. "YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK TO get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting to that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathing-suits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope I'll never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog smelling my fur and always edging to get up under my petticoats"  Check out books by James Joyce in our online catalog: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&t=author&search_category=author&q=james+joyce&commit=Search