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15. Juni 2021 · Photograph: Alan Betson. Tue Jun 15 2021 - 15:10. What's happening on June 16th? It's Bloomsday, when James Joyce devotees celebrate his novel Ulysses. Remind me why that is. Joyce's enormous ...
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19. März 2024 · Description. The world is in doomsday. Zombies and mutants are flooding the world with broken rules. The evil gods are all around, spying from outside the sky. The entire doomsday world has turned into a cruel evolutionary game! This is the greatest opportunity and trial ground for human beings, and it is also a playground for gods and demons!
16. Juni 2013 · Every year, 16 June marks Bloomsday, the day on which fans of James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses celebrate this modernist masterpiece. June 16 was selected for this celebration because it is the day on which all of the events in the novel take place (June 16th 1904 to be precise). Here are some interesting facts, in honour of the event, and the ...
16. Mai 2008 · Boomsday. Paperback – May 16, 2008. Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75.
- Christopher Buckley
Since Social Security is the most boring subject in the world, we probably owe Buckley some kind of debt for putting the subject in front of us in the form of a highly readable novel with flip-page howlers. But the idea that such a movement could be a hot-button issue in a presidential race is so silly that Boomsday's momentum begins to dissipate before the midway point.
Boomsday: A Novel. Christopher Buckley. Twelve/Warner Books, 2007 - Fiction - 557 pages. Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide, twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcont ...
