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| | Bloomsday 1993 |
 | | But the photographs do not set out to document a stream of literary landmarks; instead, they show sights seen naturally while going through the city, just as Bloom would have seen buildings and alleys and signs during his Odyssey (but perhaps viewed through the eyes of two ‘Stephens’). |
 | | While most of the photographs are self-evident, it would take the most discerning eye to recognize that the hazy photo, aimed upward at a skylight, is from the interior of Davy Byrne’s Pub, taken while reenacting ‘Lestrygonians’. |
 | | The photographs record things universal, that are eternal because Joyce wrote of them in ULYSSES; but also, as in the book, the photographs capture fleeting things unique to the day of their inception, which now, in 2004, have irretrievably changed. |
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