Sandra Tropp

cosmic dust daughter sister wife mother widow grandma Joycean Darwinian cosmic dust: love life

[Sean Latham @seanplatham]

100mph winds last night in Tulsa nearly wrecked us. All safe, but the city’s two oldest Sycamores are on the house. The dagger through the bedroom ceiling nearly killed us. Three gaping holes in the roof and no power for a long time since poles sheared like matchsticks.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

May the 4th be with you! It’s Star Wars Day and the 84th anniversary of the publication of Finnegans Wake.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

The annual James Joyce Ramble, a USA Track & Field National Masters 10 km Championship race, will take place in Dedham, Massachusetts on April 30.
https://t.co/cr5mdwPv4Y

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

If the laws that we have in Massachusetts were the laws all across this country, we would reduce deaths from gun violence dramatically. I have a comprehensive bill to achieve that goal, and I’m going to keep working on this every way I can. https://t.co/uXA4CWUXUq

[Friends of Darwin - @[email protected] @friendsofdarwin]

30 years ago, I bought the first 8 volumes of Darwin’s Correspondence—all that had been published at the time. Ever since, my ambition has been to live long enough to collect the full set. Today, on my 58th birthday, I realised that ambition. Thx @MyDearDarwin & @bookcasehebden

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

OTD in 1966 John Lennon said in an interview that James Joyce was "more popular than Jesus." The comment was published in the London Evening Standard without controversy, but triggered an international furor when it was reprinted in the American teen magazine Datebook.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Dora Marsden was arrested during a suffragette protest at Owens College, now @OfficialUoM, OTD in 1909. She wore her academic gown for the occasion. She founded The Egoist, which serialized A Portrait of the Artist and published parts of Ulysses.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Book post: Lars Porsena signed by Robert Graves. A 1972 reissue of Graves' tongue-in-cheek treatise on the decline of swearing, it references James Joyce and Ulysses. (This copy is showing its age and was inexpensive.)

[UNUMKenBurns @UNUMKenBurns]

When Ken Burns asked every living president to recite the Gettysburg Address in 2013, Pres. Carter shared this story about Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Camp David Accords. We are thinking about the President and thought all would appreciate this wonderful story.

[Greg Priest (@gregpriest.bsky.social) @greg_m_priest]

OTD in 1827, 18-year old Charles Darwin delivered his first scientific paper—to a student-led society at the University of Edinburgh. His study of marine invertebrates kicked off a lifelong interest in the line between life and non-life and the nature of biological individuality.

[Blooms and Barnacles Podcast @BarnacleCast]

Why does Leopold Bloom hear a donkey in "Hades"? We attempt an answer this Wednesday on the podcast. #JamesJoyce #Ulysses

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

James Joyce's friend Paul Léon wrote to his wife Lucie OTD in 1942: "Darling—we've been counted and tomorrow we leave—I don't know where we are going…. But the most important thing for me is to tell you that...it is you that I shall love forever." He was sent to Auschwitz.

[Sandra Tropp @SandyTropp]

@PeterChrisp No where near the flexibility shown in the real photo you have, if Zi remember correctly.

[Fred @frederickjhayn1]

@johnstonglenn Also selected this collection of poetry for James Joyce. Guess you have a copy mine long gone unfortunately.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Bernard Benstock was born OTD in 1930. He was a co-founder and president of the International James Joyce Foundation and served as editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement. He was also an authority on Sean O'Casey.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Actor Peter Lorre died OTD in 1964. His films included Fritz Lang's M; Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much; John Huston's The Maltese Falcon; and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca.

[Boston Baroque @BostonBaroque]

"Dear friend" does not come close to who Christina Day Martinson is to Boston Baroque! We are so happy to have her as our concertmaster and our violin soloist for Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante" this weekend. Learn more about her here: https://t.co/eMdE0289Yl

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Wall Street lobbyists and Republicans in Congress are pushing Fed Chair Powell for weak capital requirements at exactly the wrong time. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse underscores the need for strong rules to protect the financial system. Regulators must not buckle to pressure.

[Sam Slote @sbslote]

OTD 100 years ago, Joyce starts writing what will become Finngeans Wake: 'Yesterday I wrote two pages—the first I have written since the final Yes of Ulysses' (11 March 1923; LI:202).

[MyDearDarwin @MyDearDarwin]

For #InternationalWomensDay, Francis Neary has set his favourite letter to music. The satirical verses were sent to Darwin by Ellen Frances Lubbock in 1875 after the publication of his book on insectivorous plants. They capture wonderfully the point-of-view of the insects.