On Bloomsdays Past
And a family-cultivated belief that the heroes of ancient Greece were my ancestors. I flipped to the first page, but I couldnât make anything of it at all. That first sentence looked like normal English. It had no words I didnât recognize. But something about it was off (was âBuckâ someoneâs name or a noun? And what was a âStately plumpâ?). And as I moved on deeper into that first page, I became more confused.I donât remember now whether I paged through to the other sections I would come to know as âLaestrygonians,â âOxen of the Sun,â or âCirceâ. If I had, I would most certainly have had even more reason to do what I did then, at age ten: put the book back, shaking my head and vowing to try again in a few months. For years afterwards, I would pull Ulysses off the shelf every few months or so, start reading, become confused, and replace the book, deciding that I was still not ready to understand it.
The funny thing is that the only reason my father owned the book in the first place was that he belonged to the Book of the Month Club and he had chosen this particular tome, instead of his usual crime novels, thinking it was about the Greek hero. Which it is, in a way, but not in the way my father expected. So that made two of us who couldnât understand Joyceâs masterpiece. My fatherâs Greco-chauvinistic book-buying was as far as he got into Joyceâs oeuvre. But I eventually went on to study Joyce in college and graduate school, and to spend one summer reading every page of Finnegans Wake , watching the words flicker into meaning every now and then as I prepared to write my dissertation.
For many years, June 16, Bloomsday, found me in cities ranging from Monte Carlo to Milwaukee, at the annual Joyce conferences that were my scholarly bread and butter. The conferences spanned several days, and depending on the calendar each year, it wasnât always possible to set the keynote address on the 16th itself. This meant that, for all the intense focus on Ulysses narrative often got lost in the more general hubbub of the conference. Someone would invariably exclaim, while in line at the cash bar or to see that yearâs Derrida protégé, âItâs the 16th!â and the rest of us would beam with pleasure for a moment.
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in a thin, elongated font: Ulysses. When I was about ten, I first took the book down from the shelf. I'd been raised on my father's bedtime stories from The Odyssey and a family-cultivated belief that the heroes of ancient Greece were my ancestors.
I just converted my first book to Kindle, and since people can change fonts (and devices have different screen resolutions/orientations), page numbers don't make sense. But I can see that creates a tough issue when you are trying to know exactly where
Cartoules Press: The Greek Font Society
As I sit here designing my new line of greeting cards in Greek, to be printed later this month :-), I think about what inspired me to embark on this extraordinary journey. One of the main reasons I started Cartoules was to fill a unique void I felt existed in my small, niche Greek-American community. In my quest to find a stationer, let alone a letterpress shop, to design and print my wedding invitations in both Greek and English, I was disappointed to discover that no such service existed for Greek-Americans such as myself. Sure I found some Greek-language greeting cards and the like being sold in online stores, but all were lacking fresh and modern designs. Instead I noticed frequent themes of tacky roses, illustrated fairies, and photographs of little puppies on birthday cards. Not exactly what I had in mind! While I love to create stationery and invitation suites for my clients in English, my love of typography and the Greek language is truly expressed through the Greek language projects I have the pleasure to work on. After digging around the internet for Greek fonts I could purchase to use in my projects (real Greek language fonts not stupid, fraternity, Greek-looking typography) I stumbled upon the Εταιρεία Ελληνικών Τυπογραφικών Στοιχείων or, the Greek Font Society. This non-profit organization was formed in 1992 with the intent of contributing to the research of Greek typography and the preservation and revival of long-forgotten historical Greek typefaces. The Greek language, dating back 3,400 years and one of the oldest recorded living languages, is that of classical ancient Greek literature and the original written language of the New Testament. With such a rich history, both written and oral, the Greek language and its various typographies should be preserved and revered. I salute the artists and designers who keep the Greek Font Society alive and hope to see great things from this organization in the future.
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