Hungary

Bloomsday has also been celebrated since 1994 in the Hungarian town of Szombathely, the fictional birthplace of Leopold Bloom's father, Virág Rudolf, an emigrant Hungarian Jew. The event is usually centered on the Iseum, the remnants of an Isis temple from Roman times, and the Blum-mansion, commemorated to Joyce since 1997, at 40-41 Fő street, which used to be the property of an actual Jewish family called Blum. Hungarian author László Najmányi in his 2007 novel, The Mystery of the Blum-mansion (A Blum-ház rejtélye) describes the results of his research on the connection between Joyce and the Blum family.

... we might as well pay homage to one of my patron saints. (the others in the triumvirate are Henry Miller, Robert Anton Wilson (who i only met once at Timothy's funeral), Zora Neal Hurston, and Sherman Alexie (who i got to hang out with alot). Yes my abacus is gebroken.

James Joyce, the Einstein of writing in english, a quantum mechanic, he was. Take the language and charm the quirks, spin 'em up and down, painted tipi skins from the Higgs bison.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin