Sporting stars who are always heroes to someone

I’m not sure if I ever noticed before that Father’s Day falls around Bloomsday.

Sporting stars who are always heroes to someone

The former is celebrated all over the world, but the latter, I suspect, is accepted with gritted teeth. It’s laudable that a relatively obscure book commands an annual celebration, so long as you don’t have to, you know, endure those celebrations yourself.

Ulysses has something to say on every matter under the sun, so it’s no surprise there’s a hot take on fatherhood (“Noisy self-willed man, full of his son,” thinks Bloom of Simon Dedalus, “Quite right too.”).

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