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As of Nov2000 these notes have been broken down into 18 separate pages, so some links will be broken (sorry). Basic skills intro.
Sun's path: > Scylla < WRocks
Lestry Sirens
Eolus Cyclops
Proteus Hades Nausikaa
Nestor LotusE OxenSun
Telemachus Calypso Circe
SD= Stephen Dedalus BM= Buck Mulligan LB= Leopold Bloom Eumeus
SiD= Simon Dedalus JAJ= James A Joyce BB= Blazes Boylan Ithaca
EB= EncycBritannica Cath= CatholicEncyc MB= Molly Bloom PenelopeThis is meant to supplement Gifford's "Ulysses Annotated" [Amazon], not replace it. Line numbers use Gabler's system. [Amazon]
9: Scylla and Charybdis
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[I'm just beginning to understand this episode so my notes will be diffuse and mutable, at first. I'll cite Ellmann's Ulysses on the Liffey as 'UotL' and Ellmann's bio of JAJ as 'Ellmann'.]
Odyssey's S&C; sections: Circe's preview, main adventure (4 pars), and O's second passage
Linati schema: "Two-edged dilemma" [more]
Implied but not stated here is that the best solution to any dilemma is normally a synthesis of the two 'horns', and that humans in their fallibility are usually strong in one aspect but weak in the other, so achieving the synthesis requires developing those unloved characteristics. (Homer makes this explicit by requiring Odysseus to make a second passage on the Charybdis side.)We should look for a central dilemma that Stephen is facing, and many minor ones for all the other characters.
Gilbert schema:
"The Rock - Aristotle, Dogma, Stratford :
The whirlpool : Plato, Mysticism, London :
Ulysses : Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare"
This dialectic of dogma vs mysticism will be acted out via a debate over Hamlet. We can simplify the chapter's structure by looking first only at the debate itself... but this is quite a challenge because the debate is at a very high level, and worse, Stephen speaks almost entirely in literary riddles. In outline (and most of this will look completely unfamiliar even to old Ulysses hands):
# TL: ...[banalities]
JE: [sniping]
AE: SD's questions are just schoolboy speculation
# SD: that's how we learn
# JE/SD/RB/AE: [offtopic: flamewars]
SD: Hamlet is full of butchery
JE to RB: SD sees Hamlet as ghoststory
SD: ghostliness is a useful literary metaphor
# SD: WS might have seen his relation to Ann H as like a ghost's to Gertrude
AE: this is unseemly gossiping. the text speaks for itself.
# JE: tradition justly ignores Ann
SD: tradition is wrong in this case
JE: she was WS's mistake, quickly suppressed
SD: artists must cherish their mistakes to become great
JE: women are irrelevant to wisdom
SD: Socrates learned so much from women the dogmatists killed him
RB: we ignore Ann because WS ignored Ann
# SD: the texts can support a very different view, with Ann often in the foreground
# All: [offtopic: meta]
TL to SD: interesting argument!
# JE: we must remain agnostic
RB: Hamlet does seem very personal... but I don't care about assigning roles
JE: I might be convinced, if the arguments are good enough
SD: an aged artist can still depict his youth
RB: some of Hamlet is clearly youthful
SD: that's still tradition speaking
Stephen's image of the mole is a very precise metaphor for the dogma vs mysticism dilemma: the mole persists from sheer inertia (like dogma), but if nothing persisted we'd have only chaos.
JE: youthful passion isn't the same as genius; WS's late plays have the genius of experience
TL: the experience of reconciliation
SD: reconciliation with whom, then?
# SD: the turningpoint is baby Marina in Pericles
JE/SD: [who accepts Pericles in the canon?]
SD: later plays carry on the same theme
SD: [understated] WS's granddaughter was born at this time
RB: [gets it]
SD: [speculates on why a genius would be moved by this]
TL: [offtopic: authorship debate (ie, didn't get it?)]
The authorship question is a hopeless Charybdis that keeps trying to suck them in, while the dogmatic (Scylla) tradition has been stuck in tepid agnosticism for centuries. But since researchers have kept digging up new scraps of clues, SD has much more to base his new model on.
SD: [steering back] the sonnets betray WS's inexperience, which he blames on Ann
# SD: all his pre-Pericles work betrays the frustration of not having won his own wife
All: [offtopic: Mulligan then Bloom]
# JE: [offtopic: Hamlet a woman, an Irishman]
RB: [offtopic: sonnets by Hughes, for Hughes, praise of Wilde]
TL: [offtopic: was Wilde not serious?]
TL: [offtopic: everyone projects their own authorship theory]
# BM: [offtopic: telegram]
# JE and RB: SD, carry on, this shows promise
SD and BM: [rumors of WS's adulteries]
SD: was Ann chaste for 20 years then?
Here is Joyce's Shakespeare-Odysseus parallel-- Ann/Penelope waits (or doesn't) 20 years in Stratford/Ithaca. SD is trying to rally the Ithacans in WS's defense. He's discovered, 300 years on, that there were usurpers in his father's house. And in this way he hopes to win for himself some of WS's inheritance!
# BM: who would she have cheated with?
SD: the sonnets offer one analogue, as a possible clue
JE: [witticism]
SD: [mysterious mental image, followed by sudden heating up!?]
SD: [offtopic?] WS seems to have had a pimp-complex
SD: but Hamlet implies a broken vow and a brother
SD: If Gertrude isn't Ann, what explain's Ann's absence?
SD: why did Ann have to borrow, and why the willed bed?
JE: tradition offers an innocent explanation
SD: the sequence of drafts tells a different story
# JE/SD: [more tradition, parried hotly]
RB: [Aristotelian support for SD]
BM: [leering support for SD?]
JE: [witticism to relieve the tension?]
SD: [offtopic?: Aristotle's will's mention of mistress, and Charles II's dying request]
RB: [odd question about WS's death?]
BM: [offtopic: WS's death from drink]
BM: [offtopic: WS's bisexuality]
RB: [beauty vs virtue]
JE: 'beauty' can be a codeword for perverse lust
SD: [thinks: no it can't]SD: WS was tight with money
SD: [offtopic? WS's plays were often topical]
# JE: [overreacting] WS as likely a Catholic as a Jew
SD: he was Continental
RB: myriadminded
SD: Aquinas...
BM: [comic routine]
SD: ...said incest is avarice
SD: avaricious WS would have been possessive of Ann
BM/RB/JE: [banter]
# SD: Ann got religion after WS's death, maybe from guilt
JE: WS was not a 'family poet'
# SD: [losing it?: fatherhood is a fiction]
BM: [loud, rude]
SD: [inventory of WS's relatives' echoes in the plays]
JE: [still interested]
SD: [the brothers and their eponymous characters]
# JE/RB/BM/TL: [banter about their names]
SD: 'William' in the plays
SD: [the star-portent in Stratford]
TL: [real or metaphor?]
# All: [chatter, mostly enthusiastic]
SD: Richards and Edmunds in the plays
JE: those can be explained more directly
# SD: WS was haunted by a sense of banishment
cf Bloom since 1894 [background]
SD: [feels bound by his own mind]
JE: [concedes SD has recovered a lost half of the truth]
SD: WS was all his characters
BM: [witticism actually on-topic?]
JE: [reasserts a traditional view]
SD: WS's heroism was to be all things
# RB: [witticism]
JE: do you believe it yourself?
SD: no
Eglinton still insists it be framed as a (new) dogma, which Stephen can't abide.
# SD follows LB out
# BM on stairs tells SD his playlet
# LB exits between SD and BM on front steps
The Homeric doubling hypothesis:
Uniquely, within Ulysses, chapter nine corresponds not just to Odysseus's adventure with S&C;, but also to Book Two of Homer's Telemachia, where Telemachus tries to rally the Ithacans against the suitors [Homer] Joyce is on record [June 1915] as having originally planned four chapters for the Telemachia to correspond to Homer's four. And he would have hewn closer to reality if Stephen had gone straight from Tower to Library:Eglinton's Irish Literary Portraits reports: "One morning, just as the National Library opened, Joyce was announced; he seemed to wish for somebody to talk to, and related quite ingenuously how in the early hours of the morning he had been thrown out of the tower, and had walked into town from Sandycove."
(Relocating the Library debate also freed Joyce to completely reshape the battle with Gogarty/Mulligan, drawing it out so the final break doesn't occur until the Westland row row, offstage before ch15 Circe.)
So when we look for Homeric parallels in ch9, we have to look not just for odysseuses navigating between scyllas of (eg) dogmatism and charybdises of (eg) mysticism, but also for telemachuses trying to protect their inheritances from usurping suitors, by appealing to the suitors' parents and community. And merging both simply requires making one ithacan a scyllan, and one a charybdian.
So the Shakespeare-Hamlet debate extends the pattern "T asks Ithacans to honor O by defending P from suitors" onto all of these:
Telem Ithacans Odysseus Penelope suitors Orestes himself Agamem. Clytemn. Aegisthus Hamlet himself King H Gertrude Claudius Stephen librarians WS Ann H brothersBut there are definitely further layerings here involving Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates, and maybe SD-winning-honor-in-Dublin juxtaposed with young-WS-winning-honor-in-London, and even, much more broadly, of Ireland under the usurping Church and State, and finally of benighted humanity yearning to be freed by that powerful new Irish avatar, JAJ/SD.
It may also be that Joyce took advantage of this episode's exceptional doubling to symbolize the primary challenge that Bloom needs to face before he can reclaim his position with Molly. Possibly even: Stephen understands-- as Bloom does not, yet-- that errors are volitional and can be profited from. Bloom's 1894 'scar' [bio] need not disable him permanently if he recognises this.
(And Lyster, further, may prove to be a minor Bloom analogue, since Bloom himself just couldn't be made to fit realistically within this episode's setting.)
The characters in this chapter:
(Best source: Schutte's Joyce and Shakespeare [J&S;] [Bibliofind])
Several of these were individually attacked by Joyce in his August 1904 poem "The Holy Office" [etext] (quoted below).
(Consider also that when the Little Review published this episode in April 1919 it must have caused quite a ripple in the community it depicts, who would surely have been alertly following since the first view of Gogarty in March 1918. They probably got together and read it aloud to try to puzzle out the references. Joyce would have wanted his enemies to tremble, but towards innocents like Lyster he must have tried to be no more unkind than absolutely required. The group had already weathered Moore's memoirs, published 1911-14.)
Lyster: Quaker, at 49 already spectacularly bald but not grey-- the photo I've seen shows a trim brown beard. He translated a bio of Goethe in 1883, edited JAJ's schooltext on poetry in 1893, congratulated Joyce on his Ibsen review in 1900. He was reportedly extremely dedicated to his job, and really would have been running in and out as he's portrayed here. The Quaker presence in Dublin was strong enough that they supplied one of the 12 representatives at a world conference in 1887. [cite] [history]Gogarty describes Lyster [aiwgdss10] as lovable with a whispering, diffident, virginal voice, short but burly, soft, suave, a peacekeeper, dedicated to guiding the uncultured to culture. Colum says [ofjj30] closely cropped beard, rather liquid eyes, a rich unctuous voice, copious with his good speech, given to interrogatory openings ('May we not...?'), called 'Faust' the greatest projection of poetry since Hamlet; liked to recite amorous verse. Byrne says [jfb162] polite, soft-spoken, mentally quick as a flash, paragon of courtesy
(Assuming Lyster is unmarried, all four are.)
Eglinton (JE): ex-Protestant, Hermetic Society member with Russell and Yeats, wrote for Theosophy magazine [apparent cite], 36yo, recent library employee, short, chinless, celibate, attended Bloom's high school with Yeats, but two classes behind LB, wrote essays in style of Arnold, admired Wordsworth, had known Joyce since Xmas 1902, but Gogarty already before that; co-founder of Dana; renewed friendship with Joyce after 1922 [more]
[Holy Office:] Or him who will his hat unfix
Neither to malt nor crucifix
But show to all that poor-dressed be
His high Castilian courtesyJoyce's limerick:
There once was a Celtic librarian
Whose essays were voted Spencerian
His name is Magee
But it seems that to me
He's a flavour that's more PresbyterianStannie Joyce on JE: "Magee is a dwarfish, brown-clad fellow, with red-brown eyes like a ferret, who walks with his hands in his jacket pockets and as stiffly as if his knees were roped with sugauns. He is sub-librarian in Kildare Street, and I think his mission in Ireland is to prove to his Protestant grandaunts that unbelievers can be very moral and admire the Bible." (Ellmann 147)
Colum on JE [ofjj32] low-sized with a fine head, thoughful brown eyes expressing quietude (never 'flashing'). tepid Irish-revivalism enlisted by WBY; Ulster Scots upbringing, never unfair or rancorous
JE in the June 1922 'Dial', paraphrased: "Eglinton reveals that he does not fully understand Ulysses, even the parts in which his character appears" [cite]
Russell (AE): Theosophist, 37yo, dark-bearded, visionary, kind-hearted, ex-draper, vegetarian, bicycles around Ireland organising agricultual co-ops, painter, poet, just edited anthology of young Dublin poets (omitting Joyce), met Joyce August 1902 and gossiped with Moore, Yeats, and Lady Gregory about him; Joyce had entrusted AE with his poems and epiphanies before he left for Paris in 1902, and would show him Stephen Hero in July. A superb portrait by Yeats pere from 1903 shows Russell looking like a shaggy-bearded Ichabod Crane, tall, thin and intense. [more]
[Holy Office:] Or him who once when snug abed
Saw Jesus Christ without his head
And tried so hard to win for us
The long-lost works of EschylusEglinton the distruster of imagination vs Russell the visionary offers a natural Scylla/Charybdis polarity (though they were close friends, and JE had a mystical streak or at least went thru that phase). George Moore even said to AE, of JE: "He and you are the opposite poles. You stand for belief, John Eglinton for unbelief. On one side of me sits the Great Everything, and on the other the Great Nothing." (Hail and Farewell) And Joyce would perhaps again include Russell as one of his four old masters, Mamalujo, in Finnegans Wake: Jul23 note "AE Lurgan (Armagh) 1867 aet 56, WBY 58 GBS 67. GM 71 (1923)" [400k more]
In a sense, the dialectic here had been sketched out in an 1898 debate between Eglinton, Yeats, and Russell in the Daily Express [summary].
Best: 32yo, library employee, translated Jubainville, founded School of Irish Learning, admirer of Pater and Wilde (suggesting homosexual leanings); annoyed after 1922 at his inclusion as a character. ("What makes you think I have any connection with this man Joyce? ...I am not a character in fiction. I am a living being." E363) The phrase 'don't you know' was not Best's-- but notice that Cranly in Portrait says 'do you know' [Portrait]
Colum on Best [ofjj34] youngest, studied in Paris (and Germany?), philologist, tall, blond, ruddy-complexioned, shining glasses, delightful conversationalist
That Joyce includes him here but not in 'Holy Office' probably implies that he serves a special structural (Homeric) function. (If the 'Charenton' puzzle implies a gay encounter for SD in Paris, then Best would serve conveniently to mirror that.)
(The simplest way to turn any A-B dialectic into a foursome is: just A, just B, both, neither. So Lyster might be Bloomlike both, Best allegorically neither.)
Hovering offstage:
George Moore (GM): Catholic converted recently (or so Joyce understood?) to Protestant, 52yo, leading novelist holding court in Dublin since 1901, libertine, radical autobiographical novelist whose inspiration Joyce rarely acknowledged. Moore had seen "Day of the Rabblement" where JAJ said of him, "His new impulse has no kind of relation to the future of art." and called it "preposterously clever". In 1912 'Gas from a Burner' would add "a genuine gent/ That lives on his property's ten per cent". [etext]WB Yeats: Protestant/Theosophist/Golden Dawn magician, 39yo, attended high school after LB had dropped out, aristocratic user of others, brilliant poet (admired by JAJ) who was experimenting with folk themes, earning Joyce's scorn. ('Rabblement' quote: "treacherous instinct of adaptability")
[Holy Office] With him who hies him to appease
His giddy dames' frivolities
While they console him when he whinges
With gold-embroidered Celtic fringes
All of these saw Joyce as potentially brilliant but quite insufferable in his arrogant manners and still unproven in his literary output (essays and reviews, a capful of light odes, epiphanies, Stephen Hero). His background with Dublin's Catholic university made him culturally suspect-- of this circle, only the missing Edward Martyn was Catholic (although Catholic students relied heavily on the Library). They did not invite Joyce to their private functions.
In fact, Joyce had sought a job at the Library in Sept 1903, but was rejected as unsuitable. (Ellmann) This must have grieved him, for the Library was his main home away from home in Dublin. Eglinton and Best had both been hired since, apparently (cited as year 1904).
Pic of site, old interior [aerial view]
Stephen is auditioning (to editor Eglinton) an article he proposes to write for the second number of the new journal Dana. He's been mentally rehearsing his presentation for some time.
9.1 "Urbane"
This is one of the most urbane groups in Dublin. They know Shakespeare in admirable depth (Russell's and Lyster's mastery is the weakest).
9.1 "to comfort them"
Why do they need comfort? Eglinton has likely already started baiting SD, but perhaps Stephen has also said something upsetting ('to comfort them'). 'He will have it that Hamlet is a ghoststory' JE will explain shortly.given that the room gets quiet when (silent) AE departs (see 9.345 below) it may be that AE needs the comforting. since SD hardly spends any time debating AE, it may be he (as Charybdis) has been effectively vanquished before the episode opens.
9.2 "Wilhelm Meister"
[extract]
9.3 "A hesitating soul taking arms against a sea of troubles, torn by conflicting doubts"
Odysseus facing S&C;, but also Telemachus facing the suitorscf Hamlet [etext]
9.4 "as one sees in real life"
(this is jr-high level literary analysis) cf LB on Beaufoy "Life might be so" and on Ponchiarelli "Still true to life also" [Calypso]
9.5 "sinkapace"
cinquepace dancestep [info] cf galliard, coranto in Dowland's lute arrangments: [RealAudio]Joyce in May of 1904 was plotting to acquire a lute and tour the south coast of England singing Dowland (specifically Weep You No More, Sad Fountains) and other Elizabethan songs. [RealAud] (In fact, he wrote to Dolmetsch on 16 June, requesting a free lute!) That he assigns these rhythms to the Quaker librarian must suggest a sympathy for his antique manner.
the Circe episode is full of dance imagery, and Ithaca treats its characters as astronomical bodies. this episode shares a bit of both, I think. (whereas SD lacks a body?!)
9.7 "setting open the door but slightly"
they're in a windowless inner office (Eglinton's but maybe also Best's) in a large, quietly busy library [old pic].
9.9 "lingering"
Lyster (translator of Dunster) lingers as he describes Meister's ineffectual drama of Hamlet's ineffectual lingering? (I suspect this motif mutated in Finnegans Wake into both HCE's stutter and Buckley's hesitancy.)we'll see in a moment that SD is surprised and a little flattered that Lyster is even interested at all.
Schutte says Lyster's busy zeal here was perfectly characteristic.
9.10 "beautiful ineffectual"
after Arnold on Shelley [quote]Gifford suggests that Goethe saw the theater in general as ineffectual compared to action in the world. UotL argues that this episode is about the necessity, to achieve great art, of the artist's engaging life, erring and suffering, but also transforming that experience in artistic solitude and meditation. (so Shakespeare learned from his unlucky marriage to Ann H, and transformed it into illumination for his audience... and profit for the Globe.)
9.10 "comes to grief against hard facts"
Hamlet is at home with the Charybdian challenges (eg philosophy) but not the Scyllan.also, those who speculate about the 'real' author of WS's oeuvre will come to grief against SD's hard (well-researched) facts (few though they be).
9.12 "Twicreakingly analysis"
thruout this episode, words will 'tunnel' out of their speech-balloons and into the surrounding description, in ways that work poetically but are sometimes tough to rationalise in terms of the semantics. [password]
9.12 "most zealous"
what is Joyce telling us here? Lyster switches easily from hesitant Charybdian philosophizing (even if lame) to engaged Scyllan taking-care-of-business (even if humble)? is he a Bloom-like everyday hero... or even superior because he doesn't suffer Bloom's paralysing wound? (Bloom is notably absent from the chapter, and Lyster shares many of his qualities...?!)
9.15 "Two left."
S&C;, JE&AE.; (if this were Finnegans Wake, though, this phrase would refer to the notorious Christ image with two left feet in the Book of Kells.)
9.16 "Monsieur"
"Un quart d'heure avant sa mort il était encore en vie" [context-Italian]
9.16 "sneered"
SD's contempt for mediocre minds, already legendary with this crowd. (He was not comforted by Lyster's purring!) He doesn't disagree with Lyster, but considers his comments ludicrously obvious. In this sense, the sympathetic-Elizabethan-dancer may be the narrator's view (JAJ-as-adult's?) more than SD's.this is so unattractive it must be another expression of SD's weakness/ bodilessness. Scylla-like, he still lacks compassion for human fallibility, which Bloom may yet teach him. Eumeus shows Bloom ladling comparable platitudes in the cabman's shelter, getting Dedalus-style replies like: "O, that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the best known passages in Holy Writ" [Eumeus].
but by the end of the chapter Stephen is asking Bloom semi-serious questions "One thing I never understood, he said, to be original on the spur of the moment, why they put tables upside down at night, I mean chairs upside down on the tables. In cafes." [Eumeus]. (possible turningpoint? "their two or four eyes conversing" [Eumeus])
9.18 "six brave medicals"
cf Telem's request in Book II: "give me a swift ship and twenty men" [Homer] and (for JE's skepticism) the sequel in Book IV: "they were amazed, for they deemed not that Telemachus had gone" [Homer]cf Odysseus "Scylla meanwhile caught from out my hollow ship six of my company, the hardiest of their hands and the chief in might" [Homer]
it's hard to imagine what Joyce c1903 might have meant, if he indeed told JE something like this. could he have at first taken Gogarty for a real, illusionless ally... a heroic medical? were the six simply to take Joyce's dictation?? (did he break his hand, or what?!)
Ellmann details: Byrne (Cranly) had broken (mostly) with JAJ around Xmas 1902, and JAJ happened to meet Gogarty around that time. Gogarty saw JAJ as 'a medical students' pal' and JAJ praised the medicals to Stannie as being less boring (than SJ). Stannie blames Gogarty for turning Joyce into a drinker during the spring of 1903. Other medicals included Byrne, Byrne's best friend Cosgrave (Lynch), and Elwood (Temple, in Portrait only [qv]). Joyce was writing very little.
ch14 Oxen will add: Crotthers, Madden, Costello, and Dixon [analysis]
Gogarty [aiwgdss293] says of Elwood and JAJ: 'To be a medical student's pal by virtue of the glamour that surrounded a student of medicine was almost a profession in itself. J was the best example of a medical student's pal Dublin produced'
(is there a sport with six to a side?)
9.19 "elder's gall"
36 to SD's 22. Stephen sees himself as the more evolved, or at least deserving an equal's respect.
9.19 "to write Paradise Lost"
Gifford explains this was also Blake's idea-- to make Satan the hero, with more compassion for humanity than Jehovah's shown. [background, 300k]
9.19 "Sorrows of Satan"
in 1905 Joyce read an 1897 Marie Corelli best-seller with this title [cite]. "there is an underlying mystical strength to her glorification of Satan as a misunderstood adventurer in the modern world" [great appreciation-essay w/pix]
9.21 "Smile. Smile Cranly's smile."
SD is hiding his real reaction, because he's trying to reach a goal (selling the article to the Dana?). Joyce may have considered this a Charybdian strategy, sucking people in.Cranly the betrayer smiled at Stephen some time ago, perhaps when Stephen was teasing him as JE is teasing SD now? [pic of Byrne (standing)]
Cranly's smiles in Portrait V [qv]: "It was a priestlike face, priestlike in its pallor, in the widewinged nose, in the shadowings below the eyes and along the jaws, priestlike in the lips that were long and bloodless and faintly smiling..." and later: "Cranly gripped his arm tightly to check his tongue, smiling uneasily" and then "He was watching Cranly's firmfeatured suffering face, lit up now by a smile of false patience" and "He turned towards his friend's face and saw there a raw smile which some force of will strove to make finely significant" and "He glanced sideways at Stephen with a strange smile and said: Do you consider that poetry?"
9.21 "First he tickled her"
Gifford claims this is from OG's 'Medical Dick' but the received lyrics [etext] contradict this.whose-ever lyrics they are, they do describe BM's game of getting what he wants by charm. (there's a Beatles-bio that shows Paul annoying the others by pulling this all the time.)
9.27 "I feel"
this must be JE continuing. 'feel' probably fits into some (fourfold?) pattern of their personality types. (Lyster has just said 'One always feels')
9.27 "Seven is dear to the mystic mind"
JE may be trying to tar SD as a Charybdian... and he may be offending AE in the process
9.28 "shining seven"
WBY's original 1890 version had 'Sailing Seven' [etext]
9.28 "WB"
Yeats hated his first name, so everyone close called him 'WB'. AE called Eglinton 'Willie Magee' (at least in letters).
9.30 "Glittereyed his rufous skull"
cf Stannie: "a dwarfish, brown-clad fellow, with red-brown eyes like a ferret" (I have yet to find any sort of pic anywhere.)
9.30 "his greencapped desklamp"
we're in Eglinton's office (maybe shared with Best?)
9.30 "sought"
AE is only a year older than JE, but he's the alpha male of this group.
9/30 "an ollav, holyeyed"
this is actually extremely flattering, for Joyce (SD?)
9.31 "sizar's"
[def] equivalent to 'servant'; to SD JE still seems an undergraduate-- yet Joyce had sought a lesser job there.
9.31 "of Trinity"
this is quite a subtle putdown of the whole school, and its caste system. cf Yeats on Trinity: "...turned our once intelligent gentry into readers of The Irish Times." [cite]
9.31 "unanswered"
is Russell miffed that JE put down mystics?!
9.32 "many a rood"
Milton [etext] (Paradise Lost opens with Satan waking up in Hell after losing his battle with God and Christ, and rousing his troops to fight a new battle against Adam and Eve.) Gifford fails to account for Joyce's substitution of 'Orchestral' for Milton's 'Thus Satan, talking to his nearest Mate'. [PL site]
9.32 "Tears"
Milton, a bit later [etext] (Satan weeps three times-- shy as Hamlet?-- before he finds his voice.) [Doré pic]it's hard to see Eglinton as weeping Satan, so probably it's SD himself here... addressing his troop of medicals!?
9.32 "Ed egli"
Dante, last line: [etext] ('egli' and 'elli' seem to be equivalent variants, but Joyce takes the 'Eglinton' one.)In the Divine Comedy, Dante is being led thru Hell by Virgil and here is almost at the deepest circle. They've been given a troop of demons as guides, and the leader of the demons commands them via this 'butt trumpet'.
so it must be we're supposed to picture Stephen leading his medicals this way!??
9.33 "He holds my follies hostage"
I usually imagine Joyce had accumulated such a burden of these 'hostages' by October 1904 that he had to leave the country to breathe free... and once gone, dreaded to return. (but he may have had very different reasons.)cf Telem and the suitors? (they hold his inheritance hostage.) also cf Homer's Scylla's six heads each eating (taking hostage) one of O's crewmen.
9.34 "Cranly's eleven"
Stephen is first comparing his own folly to Cranly's folly (which very likely inspired it-- it was likely mostly parody/hyperbole from the first).E367: ...a remark that Byrne had made to George Clancy [Madden, Davin]; they agreed that twelve men with resolution could save Ireland, and Byrne said that he thought he could find twelve such men in Wicklow...
9.34 "sireland"
an unavoidable rhyme in nationalist songs, parodied by Joyce in his notes: "O Ireland! Our sireland!/ Once fireland! Now mireland!/ No liar land shall buy our land!/ A higher land is Ireland!" [cite]
9.35 "Kathleen"
from Cathleen ni Houlihan [background] [summary] [info] debate [lyric]Stephen is contrasting Cranly's 'muse' to his own. (i'd imagine Stephen's goal included freeing Ireland only within the larger challenge of freeing all humanity.)
9.36 "the stranger in her house"
Penelope and the suitors; traditionally, English occupiers in Ireland.but for Stephen something else entirely.
9.38 "ave, rabbi"
Judas to Jesus [cf]
9.38 "Tinahely"
Byrne's vacation spot (?) [map]
9.38 "In the shadow"
Synge [etext] (Stephen sees Cranly's betrayal as that of the 'widow' in Synge who's eager to take a new lover, so SD = King Hamlet; Cranly = Gertrude; Wicklowmen = Claudius. But also apparently Cranly = King Hamlet, doomed to betrayal in his turn.)Portrait [qv] also hints that Cranly (ie, Claudius) has usurped Emma's (Gertrude's) affections.
9.40 "Good hunting. Mulligan has my telegram"
Cranly again associated with Mulligan... but why hunting? SD must now begin hunting anew? (Or has he exhausted his faith in that strategy?)the telegram corresponds to Telemachus's speech accusing the suitors.
this thought is way belated for 2pm, given that BM should have gotten it at the Ship at 12:30, shortly before SD arrived at Mooney's next door (Eolus)
there may be a pattern of ESP anticipating some people's entrances
9.42 "Folly. Persist."
Blake "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise." [etext]so was the telegram the folly, or is it this presentation? could he still be cooeeing himself, here in JE's office?
9.43 "censured"
JE's moods may be Scylla's six dogmatic heads: gall... sizar... censured... sedately... waxing wroth... carping... shrewdly...?
9.45 "though I admire him"
Ben Jonson on WS [cite] [etext: line 532] (JE's 'though' is a bit odd)
9.46 "All these questions"
What questions? Something about Hamlet being-or-not Shakespeare, and something about a ghost story, is all we'll be told...?
9.46 "oracled"
Gogarty on AE: 'I hear a voice from out the Golden Age speak, whenever AE indulges in a monologue which is all music and half poetry... the proper mood for AE is one in which his waves of sound are allowed to undulate over your mind' [aiwgdss162]
9.46 "out of his shadow"
cf? Scylla hidden in fog: "Yet could I not spy her anywhere, and my eyes waxed weary for gazing all about toward the darkness of the rock." [Homer]the lighting in the office is not overhead, but rather a narrow cone from JE's desklamp
9.47 "or James I or Essex"
two proposed 'inspirations' for Hamlet [cite]
9.48 "Clergymen's"
neither Strauss (1835) nor Renan (1863) were clergymen [EB] (but is AE accusing SD of sentimentalism?)the typescript [qv] has 'Clergyman's'.
9.49 "Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."
Nabokov was particularly hard on the literature of ideas: "As an artist and scholar I prefer the specific detail to the generalization, images to ideas, obscure facts to clear symbols, and the discovered wild fruit to the synthetic jam." [cite] (but VN also imagined the Ulysses schemata were a legpull!)JAJ walks a very fine highwire here-- I think he accepts there are spiritual essences, but they very definitely have forms, and can't be abstracted beyond the facts that embody them. Shakespeare's life deepened when he suffered cuckoldry, so AE's argument is exactly wrong!
9.50 "Gustave Moreau"
[pix] [info] Gifford says AE (who trained as a painter, not a reader) was fond of Moreau, pre-1905 at least.
9.53 "schoolboys"
cf Telemachus's struggle to be taken seriously, eg: "none had the heart to answer Telemachus with hard words" [Homer]
9.54 "Wall, tarnation strike me!"
SD is encouraged in spite of himself, by the news of this unsuspected interest? (the adjective 'yankee' was not in the typescript [qv])Gabler: "'Wall,' As against 'Well, tarnation strike me.' in Rosenbach. Typescript, without autograph confirmation, reads 'Wall, tarnation strike me.' 'Wall' could be rejected as a typing error, were it not for a phrase such as "Wall, Mr. Joice, I recon your a damn fine writer" in the letter of Ezra Pound to James Joyce of 19 December 1917, confirming the receipt of "Telemachus" in typescript." (more to the point, it's not at all a likely class of typo (a-for-e).)
9.57 "Aristotle"
the Gilbert schema has (bizarrely) Socrates-Ulysses navigating between Plato-Charybdis (Socrates's pupil) and Aristotle-Scylla (Plato's pupil). so might SD's quest involve learning (from Bloom!?) to appreciate the Platonic aspect?
9.57 "superpolitely"
he's trying hard to please, against his nature. (perhaps making up for an indiscreet jibe before the start of the chapter?)if he had real compassion (aka 'a body'?) he wouldn't have to keep dualistically reminding himself
9.59 "has remained so, one should hope"
why hope? he hopes SD sees this aspect... and the need to outgrow it? if JE is anti-imagination, why doesn't he side against Plato?
9.60 "now smiling"
JE re-charms AE by praising Plato over Aristotle
9.61 "Formless spiritual. Father, Word and Holy Breath."
Besant Esoteric Christianity [excerpt- scroll down]it may be that SD is angered and trying to calm himself; perhaps also searching for the right reply (which he finds), or steeling himself to throw the next 'grenade'.
we can also begin to see how drunk SD is, having been in bars (Mooney's, and another Mooney's) from 12:30 to 2. perhaps he drank for courage, anticipating this debate, and overdid it a bit. but also he's still haunted by the night fright with Haines, and the hallucination of his mother.
9.61 "heavenly man"
"Adam Kadmon: in the Kabalah, the Heavenly Man; Humanity in its ideal form, for Adam Kadmon is said to stand with his head in heaven and his feet on earth." [gloss] (ie, navigates successfully between S&C;)
9.64 "sacrificial butter"
Bhagavad Gita "I am also the melted butter" [etext]UotL points out that these mystical formulae are anti-Aristotelian (A equals not-A).
9.65 "Dunlop"
b1868 [links] in Jan 1903 he had offered JAJ a cushy job as Paris correspondent for his forthcoming magazine Men and Women (not forthcoming, finally)
9.65 "Judge, the noblest"
AE wrote a eulogy for Theosophist WQ Judge in April 1896: "Here was a hero out of the remote, antique, giant ages come among us..." [cite]
9.65 "the noblest"
[info]
9.65 "Arval"
Gifford says this means the twelve heads of Theosophy, but the only cite I find says "the assistant of the High Priest" of Ceres [cite]
9.69 "bridesister, moisture of light"
Gifford says Besant says Valentius the Gnostic says that the bridesister is Sophia, baptised-- after her fall-- with (the moisture of) Christ's light. [cf]
9.71 "elemental"
there may be an implication that this is her too-human nature, a residual bit of OP karma?
9.72 "O, fie!"
my impression is that SD loses control here, but I don't see why he would.
9.74 "Best"
b1872 [links]
9.75 "notebook, new, large, clean, bright"
this prop very effectively turns Best into an eager-to-please new recruit-- a blank slate-- recently hired, perhaps even to fill the spot Joyce applied for. so we should expect to see him buffeted between conflicting loyalties to S and C.cf? "He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai's mountaintop nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, graven in the language of the outlaw" [Eolus]
9.77 "Hamlet's musings"
[to wit]
9.78 "improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue"
Gifford cites Aristotle's (ambiguous) doubts about the immortality of the soul: "in its essential nature activity" [etext](has SD been baited here into attacking whom he meant to defend?)
9.78 "Plato's"
Gifford suggests the Odysseus section of The Republic: [etext]
9.79 "blood boil"
Homer never uses 'boiling' to describe Charybdis, surprisingly. he does use it for Cyclops's eye: "From the pierced pupil spouts the boiling blood" [Homer]
9.86 "Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow."
from 1912 JAJ lecture on WB: "To him, all space larger than a red globule of human blood was visionary, created by the hammer of Los, while in a space smaller than a globule of blood we approach eternity, of which our vegetable world is but a shadow." and "he unites keenness of intellect [Scylla] with mystical feeling [Charybdis]. This first quality is almost entirely lacking in [other] mystical art."So what sounds like a scornful dismissal of Blake is really more subtle. Blake navigated between S&C; but the Theosophists pursue only Charybdis...? (or is SD not yet attuned enough to Blake's Charybdian side???)
Joyce closely paraphrases here the Blakean source: lines 19-22 [etext]
9.89 "Hold to the now, the here"
cf Odysseus to his crew: "Keep the ship well away from this smoke and from the wave and hug the rocks" [Homer]
9.94 "Lovesongs"
[sample] [info]
9.95 "I couldn't bring him in"
Haines will explain in ch10 that he thinks SD is plain nuts. [WRocks]
9.120 "Le Distrait"
more accurately: 'the absentminded lover'. (cf this French re-translation into English? [etext])
9.125 "The absentminded beggar"
[lyrics&midi;]
9.130 "A deathsman"
Robert Greene on lust (and WS, passim): [etext]
9.131 "butcher's son"
Aubrey's error etext [background]
9.131 "sledded poleaxe"
Hamlet "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice" [etext]
9.133 "purgatory"
Hamlet [etext]
9.134 "act five"
[etext]
9.139 "yawp"
Whitman [etext] [facsimile]
9.139 "devil and the deep sea"
[etym]
9.142 "Pickwick"
[etext]
9.144 "List! List!"
Hamlet [etext]
9.149 "as far"
[map] (75 miles vs 489 miles [cite])
9.150 "limbo"
[def] [Cath]
9.153 "Lifted"
much of SD's 'composition of place' is lifted from Brandes (or from a 1910 Harper's article by Charles Wallace)
9.154 "this hour"
starttime determined by sun's angle, for lighting effects [info]
9.154 "mid-June"
'lately acted' on 26 July: [info] The Globe may have been aligned to the solstice sunrise [cite]
9.156 "Paris garden"
pic/map [source] contemporary account: [etext]
9.157 "groundlings"
[pic&info;]
9.159 "huguenot's"
see 1604 [timeline]
9.163 "Composition of place"
Loyola [etext]
9.163 "Ignatius Loyola, make haste to help me!"
cf? Telem: "prayed unto Athene, saying: Hear me, thou who yesterday didst come in thy godhead to our house" [Homer]
9.164 "under the shadow"
aka Heavens [cite] [info&pic;]
9.165 "castoff mail of a court buck"
cf Mulligan's breeks and boots
9.168 "Burbage"
[pic] ditto (unlabelled)
9.170 "Hamlet"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.178 "slate"
[def]
9.183 "truepenny"
cf Hamlet addressing the Ghost [etext]
9.190 "Flow over them"
when AE's play 'Deirdre' debuted in 1902, AE played a Druid who chants this curse: "Let the Faed Fia [a curse] fall, Mananaun MacLir, Take back the day, Amid days unremembered, Over the warring mind, Let thy Faed Fia fall, Mananaun MacLir, Let thy waters rise, Mananaun MacLir, Let the earth fail, Beneath their feet, Let thy waves flow over them, Mananaun, Lord of the Ocean!" A woman in the audience later complained that as he chanted she saw "three black waves of darkness rolling down over the stage and audience and it made her ill" AE's (private) response: "I feel filled with the pride of wickedness, almost a demon." [lfae41]
9.207 "Buzz"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.225 "glowworm"
cf? Moore [etext]
9.242 "His look went from brooder's beard to carper's skull, to remind, to chide them not unkindly, then to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned"
Best as neither-S-nor-C chides just-C and just-S, but not both-S-and-C?
9.243 "lollard"
[site]
9.244 "guiltless though maligned"
Van Caspel explains, semi-convincingly, that Lyster wasn't guilty of forgetting Ann because he wasn't even present when 'we' forgot her.
9.246 "The girl I left behind me"
[lyric&midi;]Gabler capitalises 'Girl'
9.247 "earthquake"
[etext-4th verse] mirror6 April 1580 [account]
9.248 "Wat"
[etext-6th verse] mirror
9.248 "studded bridle"
[etext-7th verse] mirror
9.249 "blue windows"
[etext-last verse] mirror
9.252 "passionate pilgrim"
[etext]
9.257 "By cock"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.258 "sweet and twenty-six"
O Mistress Mine [lyric&midi;]
9.266 "Between the acres"
[lyric&midi;] [GIF of music] [info]
9.274 "Moore's"
"Moore's literary associates were George Russell, Edward Martyn, Nathaniel Hone, Mahaffy, W.B.Yeats, John Butler Yeats, Walter Osborne, John Hughes, John Eglinton, Douglas Hyde and Lady Gregory" [cite] fansite [bio]
9.285 "Gulfer of souls, engulfer. Hesouls, shesouls, shoals of souls. Engulfed with wailing creecries, whirled, whirling, they bewail."
Charybdis
9.298 "Argal"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.301 "Colum"
[bio&pic;] Joyce wrote of Colum in 'The Holy Office':
Or him who plays the ragged patch
To millionaires in Hazelpatch
But weeping after holy fast
Confesses all his pagan past
9.301 "Starkey"
Joyce wrote of Starkey in 'The Holy Office': "Or him who drinks his pint in fear" [etext]
9.301 "Roberts"
Joyce wrote of Roberts in 'The Holy Office': "Or him who loves his Master dear" [etext] (Roberts had addressed Russell this way in a poem). 1912's 'Gas from a Burner' was mainly directed at Roberts (redheaded Ulster Scot). [etext]
9.303 "Drover"
[etext]
9.303 "Yes, I think he has that queer thing, genius."
shortly to be recycled, perfected, immortalised by SD: "His own image to a man with that queer thing genius is the standard of all experience, material and moral."
9.306 "Martyn's wild oats"
cf Yeats: "The old lecher does be telling over all the sins he committed, or maybe never committed at all, and the man of Laban does be trying to head him off" [cite] (Supposedly this relationship had already cooled by 1902 over Moore's rewriting one of Martyn's plays. [info])
9.314 "Lir's"
Moore [etext]
9.315 "French polish"
[history] [practice]
9.322 "Synge"
Joyce wrote of Synge in 'The Holy Office': "Or him who sober all the day/ Mixes a naggin in his play" [etext] (so he was accusing Synge of writing from the Charybdis side without the Scylla of experience?)
9.330 "chopine"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.387 "young"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.392 "mow"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.427 "Will he not"
Gabler's restoration later re-deleted. "-- Will he not see reborn in her, with the memory of his own youth added, another image? [par] Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known the all men. Amor vero aliquid alicui bonum vult unde et ea quae concupiscimus..." [Ellmann] ditto [Senn]
9.438 "I hope"
cf Aegyptus? [Homer]
9.439 "Shaw"
[etext]
9.440 "Frank Harris"
[fansite]
9.478 "beaver"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.484 "Entr'acte."
added 1921 after 'My telegram.' then immediately moved herecf 24 Oct 1920 to Budgen: "Last night I thought of an Entr'acte for Ulysses in the middle of the book after 9th episode Scylla & Charybdis. Short with absolutely no relation to what precedes or follows like a pause in the action of a play. It would have to be balanced by a matutine (very short) before the opening and a nocturne (also short) after the end." (SL273) (the typescript from Jan 1919 lacks the word/line.)
actually line 484 out of 1225
9.485 "A ribald face, sullen as a dean's"
masks, of comedy and tragedy? (BM's humor is a lie-- so the telegram really upset him?)
9.491 "Was Din verlachst"
What you laugh at, you will nevertheless serve.
9.492 "Johann Most"
[bio&pic;] links
9.493 "He who Himself"
based on Most: "Er ist ein göttlicher Quacksalber, der sich durch den heiligen Geist selbst erzeugte; der sich selbst als Vermittler sandte zwischen sich selbst un Anderen; der, verachtet und verhöhnt von seinen Feinden, an ein Kreuz genagelt wurde wie eine Fledermaus an ein Scheunenthor; der sich begraben liess, von den Todten auferstand, die Hölle besuchte, lebendig in den Himmel fuhr und nun seit neunzehnhundert Jahren zur rechten Hand seiner selbst sitzt, um zu richten die Lebendigen und die Todten, dann, wenn es keine Lebendigen mehr geben wird. er ist ein schrecklicher Tyrann, dessen Geschichte mit Blut geschrieben sein sollte, weil sie eine Religion des Schreckens ist." [source] (translated 1902 as 'The Deistic Pestilence')
9.503 "Yes, indeed"
(so trusting!)
9.513 "He'll see you after"
so Haines knew SD would be presenting his theory, and expected BM to arrive, but carefully arranged to miss it
9.517 "actress played Hamlet"
cf Bernhardt [pix]
9.521 "Patrick"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.523 "Portrait of Mr W H"
[etext]
9.538 "Lineaments of gratified desire"
Blake [etext]
9.545 "Buck Mulligan's again heavy face eyed Stephen awhile. Then, his head wagging, he came near"
cf cobra about to strike?!?
9.549 "the unlit desk"
two desks, then-- and Best's is the unlit one?
9.550 "sentimentalist"
the 1859 original of this Meredith quote (from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel) was "'Sentimentalists,' says the PILGRIM'S SCRIPT, 'are they who seek to enjoy, without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.'" (apparently Meredith modified it to the form Joyce quotes in the 1875 text.)cf Antinous: "Telemachus, proud of speech and unrestrained in fury, what is this thou hast said to put us to shame, and wouldest fasten on us reproach?" [Homer]
9.553 "The aunt is going to call on your unsubstantial father"
(a threat???)cf? Ithaca notesheet: "Laer. kills Eupeithes, father of Antinous." unexxed
9.561 "And we one hour and two hours and three hours in Connery's sitting civil waiting for pints apiece."
Ulick O'Connor quotes a letter from Gogarty to Joyce, supposedly from early 1903 when JAJ was in Paris, in what UOC calls 'Kiltartan dialect': "It is myself that write to answer the letter you kindly sent me and I waiting for it in Ireland. For a long time I have been wanting to speak to you and tell you what I was thinking about you. Yourself it is that must have had the strange thoughts about me not writing to you, and you so long gone from the old place where you were born and reared..." [uoc74-- apparently JAJ had this in his possession as he wrote U]cf? Athena-as-Mentor: "Telemachus, thy goodly-greaved companions are sitting already at their oars, it is thy despatch they are awaiting." [Homer]
9.568 "laughed"
cf Portrait draft: "He [SD] had tried to receive coldly these memories of his friend's boisterous humour, feeling that his coarseness of speech was not a blasphemy of the spirit but a coward's mask, but in the end the troop of swinish images broke down his reserve and went trampling through his memory, followed by his laughter..." (E379)
9.569 "to murder you"
BM's own rage characteristically projected onto third party
9.570 "Glasthule"
the Synge family lived in this section of Kingstown, near the Tower [church pic] [famous Dun Laoghairians]
9.570 "pampooties"
Lady Gregory explains: "Synge wrote asking me if I could provide [for Shadow/Glen] four red petticoats, Aran men's caps, a spinning-wheel, and some Connacht person in Dublin who will teach the players to keen. The last item is the most difficult. All the actors want pampooties (the cowskin shoes worn by the Aran people), though I warned them the smell is rather overpowering." [cite]
9.572 "Me! Stephen exclaimed."
cf? Antinous: "the fault is not in the Achaean wooers, but in thine own mother"
9.578 "Oisin with Patrick"
Gifford misreads this as a forward reference to the faunman, but surely SD is Patrick the missionary, and JMS Oisin the pagan
9.578 "Clamart"
France [map]
9.583 "Diary of Master William Silence"
[reprint]
9.597 "patient silhouette"
Lyster meets his own image!
9.605 "sheeny"
cf 1908 notebook: "Gogarty: He talked of writing from right to left when I told him Leonardo da Vinci did so in his notebooks and an instant after swore that, damn him, he would write like the Greeks and not like the Sheenies." [cite]
9.607 "Ikey Moses"
co-star of comic 'Ally & Mo' [giant pix] [info&pic;]
9.612 "Life of life"
Shelley [etext]
9.614 "He knows your old fellow."
cf? Mentor: "there is none that remembereth divine Odysseus of the people whose lord he was"
9.616 "Venus Kallipyge"
[PG-13] [revery]
9.616 "The god"
Swinburne [etext-line 112]
9.626 "art of surfeit"
cf? Odysseus was extremely pampered by Calypso
9.631 "conjugial"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'conjugal' [Senn]
9.641 "Cours la Reine"
[history] [map]
9.642 "cochonneries"
Gifford says 'little nasty things' but the Web says 'junk food'. [French Prince lyrics also w/'minette']
9.662 "Charenton"
a giant puzzle! Charenton-le-Pont, France, s.e. suburb of Paris at junction of Marne and Seine rivers [map]; large mental hospital known as Charenton situated at neighboring Saint-Maurice; "Charenton" in French is used like "Bedlam" in English; pop. 20,383 [Dumas-site] [tourist]less likely: Charenton-du-Cher [map]
9.667 "yokel"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.687 "legal knowledge"
[background]
9.698 "secondbest"
[full page 3] [info] [all three pages] [analysis]
9.724 "Herpyllis"
[etext]
9.726 "drunk"
[source]
9.728 "A quart of ale is a dish for a king"
there's a hidden irony here, reported by Ellmann: Gogarty's 1903 campaign to make Joyce a drinker began when JAJ quoted this line, and OG sneered 'a quart of milk is more in your line' (E131)
9.729 "Dowden"
Shakespeare expert (and friend of Whitman) [EB], scorner of Yeats and Russell, had recently awarded a prize to a poem by Gogarty, singling out the last line which Joyce had actually contributed.
9.729 "Shakespeare and company"
the timing isn't quite right for this to be a tribute to Sylvia Beach: [bio] [pix] (phrase drafted Dec 1918, bookstore [pic] founded Nov 1919, SB's offer to publish Ulysses Apr 1921)
9.732 "pederasty"
[info] Sonnet 20: [etext]
9.735 "astray"
cf Stephen Hero p96, UC President Dillon to SD: 'Estheticism often begins well only to end in the vilest abominations of which...'
9.743 "famine riots"
1598 [facsimile] [etext]
9.745 "sued"
1604 [etext] [cite]
9.748 "grist"
WS's sources: [links]
9.764 "holy Roman"
[info]
9.765 "Sufflaminandus sum"
[etext-line 542]
9.766 "made in Germany"
[background]
9.767 "Italian"
[stereotypes]
9.768 "myriadminded"
[etext]
9.774 "There he keened a wailing rune. --Pogue mahone! Acushla machree! It's destroyed we are from this day! It's destroyed we are surely!"
Synge's 'Riders' "CATHLEEN (begins to keen). It's destroyed we are from this day. It's destroyed, surely." [etext]cf? "the good nurse Eurycleia wailed aloud, and making lament spake to him winged words: Ah, wherefore, dear child, hath such a thought arisen in thine heart?" [Homer] (cf!? Oxen notesheet: "Dry nurse (OG for SD)" maybe 'dry' meaning alcohol-not-milk?)
9.778 "Saint Thomas"
(citing Augustine) [etext]
9.786 "hoops of steel"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.787 "Nobodaddy"
Blake [etext] and also [etext]
9.800 "mobled"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.807 "jordan"
chamberpot [def]
9.817 "unco guid"
uncommonly good (sarcastic) [def] Burns: [etext]
9.818 "A sire"
Moore's 1913 autobiography describes JE as "come straight down from the hard North" [J&S;] but a 1904 bio-note said "native of Dublin... son of an Irish Protestant clergyman who died recently" [Gifford]
9.822 "wand"
cf Wordsworth, last line: [etext]
9.831 "nel mezzo"
[etext]
9.832 "undergraduate"
cf Hamlet "going back to school in Wittenberg" [etext] but SD ignores the gravedigger's specific 'thirty' [etext] (somehow the First Quarto changed the text on this) [cf: H's illegitimacy?]
9.834 "walk the night"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.836 "Calandrino"
[etext]
9.843 "true thing"
cf Cranly in Portrait "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." [etext]
9.849 "condemned"
Groden writes: "Note how many times Stephen's thoughts as he speaks betray his self-doubts: "Are you condemned to do this?" (9:849), "Don't tell him he was nine years old when it was quenched" (9:936), "Fabulous artificer. The hawklike man. You flew. Whereto? . . . Lapwing. Icarus." (9:952-54), "He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage" (9:1016), "--Do you believe your own theory? / --No, Stephen said promptly" (9:1067)." [cite]
9.876 "The play's"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.894 "Gilbert"
[source]
9.908 "Then outspoke"
lyric [etext]
9.922 "painter of old"
cf Browning [etext] w/notes [pic?] [pic?] [pic?]
9.924 "coat of arms"
[pic]
9.926 "honorificabilitudinitatibus"
WS [etext]
9.928 "A star"
[info] [map]
9.934 "Shottery"
[map]
9.939 "Autontimoroumenos"
cf Baudelaire [etext-French]cf [Senn]
9.939 "Bous Stephanoumenos"
ox crowning-self-with-garland. cf Portrait [etext]
9.953 "Newhaven-Dieppe"
[map]; crossingpoint for Channel [old pix]
9.953 "Lapwing"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.967 "Dineen"
actually Dinneen [Bibliofind]
9.977 "brother"
[pic] ditto thread [password]
9.1018 "all in all"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.1028 "Dumas"
père [cite]
9.1030 "delights not"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.1032 "man and boy"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.1033 "mulberry"
[info] [pic]
9.1038 "Prospero"
WS's farewell speech? [etext]
9.1040 "bad niggers"
[lyric&midi;]
9.1051 "foretold by Hamlet"
cf Hamlet [etext]
9.1069 "dialogues"
Decay of Lying [etext] and Critic as Artist [etext]
9.1073 "Bleibtreu"
1907 anachronism [Bibliofind]
9.1093 "Come, Kinch."
cf Athena-as-Mentor: "Telemachus, thy goodly-greaved companions are sitting already at their oars, it is thy despatch they are awaiting." [Homer]
9.1093 "wandering Aengus"
Yeats [etext]
9.1093 "Aengus of the birds"
Yeats [etext]
9.1102 "the bards must drink"
cf? T to Eurycleia "Mother, come draw off for me sweet wine in jars" [Homer] also Oxen notesheet: "Dry nurse (OG for SD)"
9.1109 "gall his kibe"
rub his heel-blister. cf Hamlet [etext]
9.1122 "turnstile"
[ofjj29] describes the layout: "Near the exit turnstile, in the reading room, was the counter at which one applied for books; on it were displayed recently published volumes. Behind this counter were attendants, scholarly men among them. The librarians had their offices along a corridor one entered from behind the counter."
9.1124 "Mincius"
Milton [etext]
9.1126 "John Eglinton"
"John Anderson My Jo" [RealAud] [lyric&midi;] [GIF of music] [info]
9.1129 "Chin Chon"
after The Geisha [info] [RealAud]
9.1130 "plumber's hall"
[old pic]they hadn't moved into that new building yet, but were rehearsing at Camden Hall, where Joyce was a frequent visitor around this time
9.1139 "Phedo's"
Plato [etext]
9.1143 "I hardly hear"
parody of Yeats: [original]
9.1155 "Synge"
Lady Gregory explains "He told Mr. Yeats he had given up wearing the black clothes he had worn for a while, when they were a fashion with writers, thinking they were not in harmony with nature, which is so sparing in the use of the harsh colour of the raven." [source] [pic]
9.1158 "Longworth"
quote from JAJ review: "...stories about giants and witches, and dogs and black-handled knives... none has any satisfying imaginative wholeness... sets forth [the 'folk' mind] in the fulness of its senility..." [background]
9.1164 "most beautiful"
cf Yeats [etext] mirror
9.1168 "Moorish hall"
[pic?]
9.1192 "Camden hall"
this actually took place on 20 June, during Joyce's 'spree' after being thrown out of his lodgings at McKernans for nonpayment of rent (and also after meeting Nora).Joyce's version: (E161)
O, there are two brothers, the Fays,
Who are excellent players of plays,
And, needless to mention, all
Most unconventional,
Filling the world with amaze.But I angered those brothers, the Fays,
Whose ways are conventional ways,
For I lay in my urine
While ladies so pure in
White petticoats ravished my gaze.the 'ladies' included Vera Esposito, and actress whom Joyce had impressed a few days earlier with his singing, at Cousins' house. Gogarty [aiwgdss293] claims Elwood was the drunk.
9.1215 "barbs"
[pic- see 'National Museum gate']
9.1218 "Kind air"
cf Macbeth [etext]
9.1221 "Cease to strive"
cf? Circe on Charybdis "against her there is no defence" [Homer]
9.1221 "druid priests"
Cymbeline [etext]
9.1223 "Laud we the gods"
Cymbeline [etext]cf? Telem's offering before departure for Pylos: "and poured drink offering to the deathless gods that are from everlasting, and in chief to the grey eyed daughter of Zeus" [Homer]
Scylla and Charybdis discussion