The film also boasts a terrific performance from Daniel Craig and is very good on atmosphere, capturing dark dinner parties, bright bookshops, sunlit London lofts and smoky cafes.
Joyce's endings are almost sentimental: the ending of "Ulysses" is famously one big birthday-party-bright "Yes," while "Finnegan's Wake" ends neatly and hopefully, if dreamily, by returning to its beginnings.
Since the Democratic Party enjoys an image as the party of bright young politicians, the new party is expected to appeal to younger voters.
He re-emerged a few years later as senator from Nebraska, the darling of the pundits and his party's bright hope; he jumped into the race for the Democratic nomination in 1992 but faltered early.
With national elections scheduled for Sept. 22, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic colleagues have found an unorthodox way of campaigning: selling condoms in the party's bright red color with the slogan "Feel Good, SPD".
Mr Clegg was speaking in Abingdon, Oxfordshire - a key marginal seat the Lib Dems are hoping to win back from their coalition partners - where he arrived in the party's bright yellow "battle bus".
No one has had the chance to cast a ballot for him yet, but if he starts actually winning primaries, the GOP will have to contemplate a reality where the face of their party is bright orange and topped by insane hair.
And – perhaps the party's brightest rising star – Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, insists that he's not running, either.
Her first major initiative was to set up an economic commission headed by the former Plaid MP Adam Price, one of the party's brightest sparks.
One of the party's brightest hopes in the state was Richard Carmona, a charismatic candidate whose stump speech was full of autobiography.
