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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
Halted, he peered down the dark, winding stairs and called out coarsely:
First lines from Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922
* Beltane (Wicca) By the way, the Gaelic or “Irish” for May is Bealtaine
* May Day (International)
* - 4 Green Corn Dance (Zuni) welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter.
* International Workers Day. What May Day has become in many parts of the world,
* Giorno dei Lavoratori (Italy)
* National Love Day (Czech Republic) Couples go to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss.
* Lei Day (Hawaii)
* International Day of Solidarity of Workers (Moldava)
* Maharashtra Day (India)
* Batman Day
* Worthy Wage Day
* Silver Star Service Banner Day
* Law day & Loyalty Day (U.S.) W jr. tried to start this one to fight May Day, but it didn’t take.
* Day in 1776 that the Order of the Illuminati of Bavaria was formed by Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1811)
* According to Ronald Hutton in Triumph of the Moon, it was this day in 1947 that Gardner (founder of modern Wicca) had the first of four May meetings with Aleister Crowley, where he bought several books and was recommended by him to be made a 4th-degree initiate of the O.T.O.
* Samhain (Wicca) In the Southern Hemisphere.
Artwork, poetry and fiction used to be the exclusive domain of humankind. Now, you can now find many AI programs online that will create just about anything you can think of - from 3D rendered models to descriptive text - with just a few inputted prompts.
Rather than worry if this is going to put me out of a job I thought a collaboration was in order so used an AI called ChatPGT to write me a nostalgic four line poem about walking in the cherry blossom and this is what it came up with:
I walk beneath the cherry blossom trees
Memories of you come back to me
Each petal falling like a tear
As I remember our springtime years
With that as inspiration I then went on to create the accompanying artwork of a girl walking through the blossom and, bingo, we have one unsolicited collaboration with a computer program. The future is, at least, interesting.
She's been created on classy A2 Somerset paper using stencils, spraypaint, dymo, letter stamps and some computer derived poetry. Drop us a line if this futuristic artwork needs to adorn your gaff or she'll be making her way to our new website in due course (www.id-iom.com/)
Cheers
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