This year’s online Bloomsday seminar via Facebook was a global conversation in the privacy of our own screens. Each of the eighteen short films, released online by Bloomsday in Melbourne at the hour set for each episode, were treated as the ‘papers’ to prompt online discussion. Episode 6 included contributions by Lyall Burton, Steve Carey, Sian Cartwright, Frances Devlin Glass, Tony Guyot, Susan Lever, and Helene McNamara, whose initials appear where their thoughts are represented in these analecta. Given other thoughts on his mind, his grief for his father and lost son, the imminent loss of his wife, are his habits of thought escapist, or realistic, or something else? (FDG) Maybe it’s a bit of both, escapism and realism; Bloom being philosophical about life and mortality and how infused they are. (Sian) Joyce demonstrates a truth we never stop to think about, which is that our minds never stop. We live with our minds and all the neural activities our minds are heir to. How we re