Talk:Molly Bloom

disambiguation: this is also the name of a possible criminal
Molly Bloom, the woman responsible for organizing and running high-stakes poker home games for Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes, will be writing a tell-all memoir about her experiences. Actor Tobey Maguire, an avid poker player who has made trips to the World Series of Poker, settled out of court last November, agreeing to pay $80,000 of the $311,000 he won in the home games.

Other stars who were rumored to appear in the games included Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Alex Rodriguez and Leonardo Dicaprio.

HarperCollins publisher It Books has reported that the untitled memoir is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2014.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/13774-hollywood-poker-home-game-organizer-to-release-memoir — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.172.122.94 (talk) 03:12, 30 July 2012 (UTC)


 * If the other Molly Bloom becomes notable enough for a Wikipedia article, a hatnote would be the proper way to disambiguate between the two articles. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:05, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Talk Page Entries from "Molly Bloom's Soliloquy" Page
I removed the part Molly Bloom's direct, simple language speaks more to the reader — even moves the reader — more than all the rest of the novel. because it is not neutral point of view. Everyone has a different opinion on which part of Ulysses is best, with one critical guide I read saying it is Bloom's musings on life and death during the funeral. - Kricxjo 10:11 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)


 * Not everyone has an opinion on which part of Ulysses is best. In fact, most people haven't even read it.--xoddam 08:31, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Hahaha THAT's a silly commentary, man LOL--euyyn 21:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed these paragraphs which might fit into the Ulysses article:

Ulysses is famous for introducing stream of consciousness to fiction. Characters' thoughts, fragments of memory and fantasies are mixed with input from the outside world. Despite Joyce's attempts to replicate the flow of sensation through characters' minds with a diverse repertoire of literary effects, it is doubtful that anyone has such intelligible thought processes as the characters in Ulysses do. Vast stretches of mental time are often passed without any thoughts that are expressed internally in words. This is a failing of the stream-of-consciousness method. An author must either include blank pages, pages of scribbling, musical notes, etc., or give up the pretence that one is reproducing the mental process. An author has to acknowledge that out of the nearly infinite range of daily human experience he is selecting specific items to put together artificially to represent through language what is largely inarticulate.

The stream-of-consciousness approach introduced by Joyce has had a great effect on modern writing, but Ulysses may be the over-the-top experiment that has allowed other writers to use the technique selectively as it is appropriate in their writing.

Rmhermen 14:34, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)

IMO this page should be deleted. It might as well be a very short personal essay. --Nick 01:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)@

Conspicuous omission
Critics are pretty well unanimous, I think, that Molly's last words in the chapter are spoken as she masturbates to orgasm (which helps get the Back to School joke mentioned in the article). Anyone more up on these things than I am, care to provide a cite so this can be put into the article? --Andersonblog (talk) 22:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Are you sure? The word "yes" appears throughout the soliloquy — it's even the first word. Read the final part of the soliloquy here, where it's been reformatted. I think Molly's "yes" is an answer to Leopold's marriage proposal, and she repeats it throughout her recollection of that day:
 * the sun shines for you he said ... the day I got him to propose to me yes ...
 * after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes
 * he said I was a flower of the mountain yes ...
 * and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes
 * and then he asked me would I yes ...
 * and first I put my arms around him yes
 * and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes
 * and his heart was going like mad and yes
 * I said yes I will Yes.
 * Read in context, the word "yes" hardly seems to suggest that Molly is masturbating (although I suppose that's a possibility). — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 00:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not "sure" about anything in Ulysses but I do recall seeing this in some critics. "Yes" has relatively little to do with it; the context certainly is consistent with Molly's bringing herself to orgasm.  That interpretation is for example the basis of a recitative described here.


 * "Authorities around the world have repeatedly banned James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses, usually because of the literally climactic soliloquy of the character Molly Bloom, who unabashedly cries out, 'yes I said yes I will Yes' after detailing hererotic exploits. Now Italian performer Anna Zapparoli has adapted that scene to the stage, performing it for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. Sitting atop a grand piano and accompanied by a jazz band, Zapparoli sings lyrics taken from Molly's monologue."


 * --Andersonblog (talk) 04:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point. There isn't any certainty in the analysis of literature. If you think that article, or other articles, are reliable sources, go ahead and add that interpretation to the article. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 19:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Article title
Any good reason why this article is capitalized? I believe it should be at Molly Bloom's soliloquy instead. -Phoenixrod (talk) 15:03, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Done.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:17, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Removed comment
Removed a comment in contemporary culture about this episode being fruitiful ground for ignorant commentary. That's all it said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.82.82 (talk) 01:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Good show. Even though it's probably a true statement, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Phoenixrod (talk) 05:12, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Should this article be deleted? (NOTE: Refers to original (now merged) "Molly Bloom's Soliloquy" Page; See Above)
Is there any reason why this information couldn't be merged with the Ulysses (novel) article?

I'm hard pressed to think of other examples where a portion of the novel is so significant that it deserves a separate article. The only one I can think of is The Grand Inquisitor section of the Brothers Karamazov, but that section is so significant it's even been published as a stand-alone work. I realize that Molly's soliloquy is probably the most quoted section of Ulysses, but even so, what makes this section more important than, say, the windmill episode of Don Quixote, Dante's journey to the ninth circle of hell, Captain Ahab meeting Moby Dick, or other famous sections of novels for which no articles exist? --Rsl12 (talk) 17:23, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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