June 16, 1904. The day reconstructed by a self-exiled Dubliner in Trieste and Paris, whose finished work after years of obsessive rewriting was both the pinnacle and the destruction of the novel. I refer, of course, to that masterpiece by James Joyce, Ulysses.

...I would not expect you to 'go gently into that good night' of blogging-- but welcome to the Semi-Permanent Hiatus Club!
Posted by: David J | June 16, 2009 at 02:35 PM
You're THE MAN for the Joyce reference at the end.
You're NUTZ for packing this blog in!
Posted by: 1WineDude | June 16, 2009 at 03:49 PM
Yeah but I'm BORED.
OK, it's a hiatus. Of indefinite duration.
Btw, to which of Blooms questions did Molly ecstatically reply Yes yes yes I will yes ?
Posted by: Strappo | June 16, 2009 at 03:54 PM
Sorry to hear this--I always appreciate the well written literary quality of your posts and understand how it can be daunting.
I've found it really difficult to maintain more than one blog; most o my energy goes to Art Predator, spinning off relevant posts to Wine Predator etc.
Posted by: art predator | June 16, 2009 at 05:57 PM
TH
I would like to thank you for creating and maintaining a superior wine blog. Life goes on but it will be diminished without Mondosapore
Posted by: Tommaso | June 16, 2009 at 08:29 PM
Thank you guys for your warm words. Mondosapore was then. This is now.
Clever, non?
Posted by: TH | June 16, 2009 at 09:19 PM
Terry,
I will miss Mondosapore...
ciao
Alex
Posted by: alex | June 17, 2009 at 05:57 AM
I can't believe my eyes!!!! I will miss your musings and witty ways. June 16th the day the music died.
Posted by: Thom Calabrese | June 17, 2009 at 01:28 PM
ah, she was a flower of the mountain that day on Howth Head when Bloom proposed to her, and she got him to ask again and she thought that it might as well be him as another and that's when she said "yes I will Yes."
Posted by: fredric koeppel | June 18, 2009 at 07:53 AM
FK, it had to be you. Flower of the mountain. And thus did Marion Tweedy become Molly Bloom.
Thom, you are giving me too much credit, but thanks.
Tommaso, grazie.
Grazie a tutti.
But...this thing isn't QUITE ready to be interred. Not just yet.
Posted by: TH | June 18, 2009 at 10:09 AM