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Richard reeder3/31/2023 Their conversations bracket Reeder’s presentation of Bloom’s story about the journey of his life, a journey in which he moves through many of the great cities of Europe and meets an amazing panoply of famous people, such as Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Joseph Pulitzer. Intrigued, Wilde revises the manuscript to give it a literary polish, and the two friends discuss the text. A few days after Bloom’s suicide in 1886, his manuscript ends up in the hands of two legendary Irish writers - Bram Stoker, later the author of Dracula, and Oscar Wilde, later the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and still later notorious for his homosexual relationship with an English Lord. That’s a lot of stuff to fit into the slimness of a novella, but it’s not all. Indeed, this is a character who has been dead and buried 18 years by the time the action of Joyce’ novel takes place on the single ordinary day, June 16, 1904, now known as Bloomsday, and who gets only a handful of mentions here and there in the 730 pages of text. So, Reeder’s book, in its odd way, is a miniscule prequel to Ulysses, telling the backstory of one of its most minor of characters. It’s also a curious book because, in its 104 pages, Reeder tells two complex stories - one about the discovery of the body of Rudolph Bloom, the father of Leopold, and the subsequent investigation of his apparent suicide, and the other contained in a manuscript he wrote that comes to be titled “The Curious Odyssey of Rudolph Bloom.” Memorial contributions may be made to Bluffton Presbyterian Church, the Richard & Sally Reeder Family Scholarship Fund at Bluffton University or to the charity of your choice.The Curious Odyssey of Rudolph Bloom by Chicago writer Richard Reeder is a curious book, and not just because it owes its inspiration to that famous and famously challenging James Joyce novel Ulysses. Visitation will be from 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Friday at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima. Services will be 10:30 am Saturday at Bluffton Presbyterian Church. Survivors include his wife Sally son Mark Brenda Reeder of Lima two step children Gary King of Louisville, OH, Nancy William Ferguson of Worcester, MA eight grandchildren Matthew Reeder, Megan Reeder, Chad Michelle King, Sarah Douglas Hartzler, Emily David Coulter, Heather Jason Harley, Gretchen King, Rachel Shawn Miller twelve great-grandchildren Hannah, Emma, & Samuel Hartzler, Logan, Evan & Gavin King Kaelynn, Nathan, Cloey & Alex Coulter Suzanna & Erin Harley and a sister Peggy Jim Smith of Lima.ĭick was preceded in death by a stepson Gregory King. Besides his love of theatre, Dick enjoyed photographing places he and Sally visited on their travels. Dick and Sally moved to Bluffton in 1980. In March 1961 he married Sally Hogan King, a widow with three young children. In 1958, he returned to Lima and joined the community theatre, Amil Tellers of Dramatics, as director. He and a business partner then formed Audio House, which designed and installed both residential and commercial sound systems. He received a bachelor’s degree in Speech and Theatre in 1952. which he attended for two years before transferring to Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He attended Lima Public Schools and enrolled in Transylvania University, Lexington, KY. Dick was born Augin Lima to the late Homer E. Reeder, 87 died at 6:40 am Jat Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton of complications from kidney disease.
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