Sir, - Browsing Weekend (June 6th), my eyes fell upon the stark but effective image of black spectacles to publicise "Dyoublong", your celebration of Joyce's Bloomsday on the World Wide Web.
This I consider highly appropriate, in that Joyce himself consistently celebrated popular culture in his writings, notably the print media. On a practical level, he organised the setting up of the Volta Cinema in Dublin in 1909.
Now Joyceans can celebrate his masterpiece on the Internet. Ironically, this nearly blind author would be elated with its worldunifying effect, via this newest of visual technologies. Thanks to The Irish Times, the multi-media coverage of Ulysses on the Web actualises "the bairdboard bombardment screen" mentioned in Finnegan's Wake, even more precisely than television. - Yours, etc., Edwin McCloughan,
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.