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 7 included contributions by Steve Carey, Sian Cartwright, Frances Devlin Glass, Ben Frayle, Tony Guyot, Susan Lever, Rebecca Morton, Margaret Newman, and Claire Pedersen, whose initials appear where their thoughts are represented in these analecta. This is the first of Joyce’s workplaces, where he seems to be the only person doing any work. (FDG) We have to ask, what are the main preoccupations of the denizens of the newspaper office? They don’t seem especially hard-pressed, in fact it could be said the only thing that’s hard-pressed about those boyos is the seat of their pants. Contributors to the newspaper are, rightly, accused of being inflated windbags, but the editors themselves can be...