Deeply Deep
“Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria?”
— James Joyce, Ulysses, “Proteus”
James Joyce may or may not have been a saint. Today is, accordingly, either his feast day or his secular day of remembrance.
With Joyce in mind, I surfed the Heckler & Coch weblog archives this afternoon and found a link to a page that credits
“Jørn Barger, an amateur
James Joyce scholar….”
with the first use of the term “weblog” in its current sense.
Seeking more on Barger and Joyce, I found that Barger has gone into seclusion and that his Joyce website is no longer online.
Google has a cache of his Joyce portal, however, and the portal and its sub-pages are also available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/2003*/
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/*
These pages from Barger’s labor of love, though neither green nor oval, may serve as this year’s Joyce memorial.