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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]
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Linati schema: "The Armed Hope" [more]
Correspondences: "Eurymachus - Boylan : Suitors - scruples : Bow - reason"
"At first I had not thought of the slaughter of the suitors as in Ulysses' character. Now I see it can be there too.""I am writing Ithaca in the form of a mathematical catechism. All events are resolved into their cosmic physical, psychical etc. equivalents, e.g. Bloom jumping down the area, drawing water from the tap, the micturition in the garden, the cone of incense, lighted candle and statue so that not only will the reader know everything and know it in the baldest coldest way, but Bloom and Stephen thereby become heavenly bodies, wanderers like the stars at which they gaze."
"Struggling with the aridities of Ithaca-- a mathematico- astronomico- physico- mechanico- geometrico- chemico sublimation of Bloom and Stephen (devil take 'em both) to prepare for the final amplitudinously curvilinear episode Penelope... The Ithaca episode... is in reality the end as Penelope has no beginning, middle, or end."
[Budgen:] "Joyce once told me that Ithaca was his favourite episode. 'It is the ugly duckling of the book'" [sources]
# LB and SD walk north, chatting amiably
# they arrive at Eccles but lack key
# LB climbs down to area-way door
# LB lets SD in and leads to kitchen
# LB boils water; water vignette
# SD declines offer of wash-up
# water boils, LB thinks of shaving
# LB sees signs of BB, torn betting tickets
# LB makes cocoa for SD
# LB remains silent as SD drinks
# LB's past attempts at poetry
# LB and SD explore their overlapping lifelines
# coincidence of Dante Riordan
# their religions and educations compared
# LB as scientist to SD's artist
# LB's ad ideas
# SD's hotel vignette, retells Parable of Plums
# LB's worries about Molly
# LB's attempts to educate Molly
# LB and SD discuss Judaism, Hebrew and Irish
# LB chants Hebrew
# LB's past future careers
# SD sings anti-semitic song
# SD analyses song's themes
# LB ponders Milly
# LB compares Milly to cat
# LB invites SD to spend night
# SD declines but agrees to get together soon
# LB sad about world's imperfection
# they exit to back garden
# they ponder the stars
# LB waxes scientific/philosophical
# LB's thoughts return to Molly
# they pee side by side; falling star
# LB lets SD out back gate
# LB enters and bangs head in re-arranged livingroom
# LB burns incense
# LB gazes at self in mirror
# LB notices books are jumbled
# LB sits and loosens clothes
# budget; LB ponders Bloom Cottage
# LB ponders Cottage more
# LB ponders Bloom of Bloom Cottage
# LB ponders how to buy Bloom Cottage
# ditto
# contents of 1st drawer, LB adds letter
# contents of 2nd drawer
# LB mourns father
# memories of father
# LB's fear of destitution
# LB contemplates going away
# LB ponders consequences of departure
# LB ponders his day
# LB enters bedroom
# LB undresses and gets into bed
# LB lists Molly's 'lovers'
# LB makes peace with BB/adultery
# LB gets erection, kisses MB's bottom
# LB tells Molly (most of) his day
# Rudy and sexual alienation
# drifting into sleep
17.5 "by an inadvertence"
they cross Temple instead of turning towards Bloom's (marked pink in map). Probably Stephen's feet are remembering his path to Belvedere [Bc on map] in 1893-94, from 14 Fitzgibbon [J93 on map] past Sheehy's [Sh]cf?!! Homeric note: Penelope 2:61 "Ach + Ag. speaks of 1894 as 1904." [homeric#xxiv]
17.17 "presabbath"
[info] more
17.31 "anachronism"
[background]
17.41 "cloud"
"A cloud began to cover the sun" [Telemachus] and "A cloud began to cover the sun" [Calypso]
17.42 "woman's hand"
cf Kings [etext] also 'A Little Cloud' [etext]
17.71 "number 7 Eccles"
[commentary & pix]
17.84 "A strategem"
cf? "the swineherd will lead me to the town later in the day, in the likeness of a beggar, a wretched man and an old" [Homer] (ie? beggar = lacks key)
17.86 "lowered"
JAJ to Aunt Jo, 3 months before publication: "...Is it possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of no 7 Eccles street, either from the path or the steps, lower himself from the lowest part of the railings till his feet are within 2 feet or 3 of the ground and drop unhurt. I saw it done myself but by a man of rather athletic build. I require this information in detail in order to determine the wording of a paragraph." [source]
17.91 "eleven stone and four pounds"
159 lbs ("ten stone and four ounces" in MS [cite])
17.95 "year"
conversion utilities: Jewish, Islamic ditto [links] ditto ditto ditto ditto
17.105 "lucifer match"
[recipe]
17.119 "helped to close and chain"
cf "speak to the women that they bar the well-fitting doors of their chamber. And if any of them hear the sound of groaning or the din of men within our walls, let them not run forth but abide where they are in silence at their work. But on thee, goodly Philoetius, I lay this charge, to bolt and bar the outer gate of the court and swiftly to tie the knot." [Homer] and "Wise Eurycleia, Telemachus bids thee bar the well-fitting doors of thy chamber, and if any of the women hear the sound of groaning or the din of men within our walls, let them not go forth, but abide where they are in silence at their work." [Homer] and "I left the well-fitted door of the chamber open... Go now, goodly Eumaeus, and close the door of the chamber" [Homer]
17.128 "Abram coal"
[passim]
17.136 "Brother Michael"
cf Portrait "He bent down to rake the fire" [etext]
17.138 "Simon Dedalus"
cf Portrait "Mr Dedalus rested the poker against the bars of the grate to attract the flame" [etext]
17.140 "Miss Kate Morkan"
cf Portrait "Before the fire an old woman was busy making tea" [etext]
17.143 "North Richmond"
cf 'Araby' [etext]
17.144 "morning of the feast"
cf Portrait "In a dream he rose and saw that it was morning" [etext]
17.145 "Father Butt"
cf Portrait "crouching before the large grate" [etext]
17.146 "16 Stephen's Green"
a puzzle-- should be 84A-87
17.163 "Did it flow?"
cf "they drew near to the town, and came to the fair flowing spring, with a basin fashioned, whence the people of the city drew water. This well Ithacus and Neritus and Polyctor had builded... and down the cold stream fell from a rock on high" [Homer]
17.186 "Mercator's projection"
[comparison]
17.188 "the Sundam Trench of the Pacific, exceeding 8000 fathoms"
Rose 'corrects' this to "the Marianne Trench of the Pacific, exceeding 6000 fathoms" [cite] [info]
17.193 "3 to 1"
138 to 58 [cite]
17.240 "aquacities"
Stannie's Dublin diary, for 29Mar 1904 (supposedly): "A medical student by name Sheehan... should be given a civil list pension for a word with which he has enriched the vocabulary-- Aquacity. He applied it to obvious statements and to platitudes." [cdd23] JAJ usually spelled it 'acquacities'. Sheehan was Daniel T Sheehan.
17.249 "respective percentage"
bacon: 7295 calories, 9 grams protein (per pound) cod: 1105 calories, 259 butter: 3200 calories, 0
17.307 "Epps's"
[ad] (500k) [13k]
17.385 "applied to"
aka sortes Shakespearianae [passim]
17.410 "kinetic poet"
cf Portrait "The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing" [etext]
17.456 "Bloom... having been born in the year 714... would have been obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having been obliged to have been born in the year 81,396 B.C."
Rose 'corrects' this to 'having been born in the year 762... would have been obliged to have been alive 20,230 years, having been obliged to have been born in the year 17,158 B.C.' [Senn]
17.487 "work of mercy"
[Cath]
17.507 "green and maroon"
cf Portrait "Dante had two brushes in her press..." [etext]
17.540 "baptised"
posting: [password]
17.622 "Queen's"
[pix] [info↦]
17.624 "aconite"
[info] [pic]
17.640 "Pisgah"
[etext]17.644 "My Favourite Hero"
by JAJ c1894, based on Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses [etext]
17.644 "Procrastination"
cf [etext]
17.661 "halma"
[for Mac]
17.661 "spilikins"
[Dead notes]
17.661 "nap"
cf [rules]
17.662 "spoil five"
[rules]
17.662 "beggar my neighbour"
[rules]
17.663 "the policeaided clothing society"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'the Police-Aided Children's Clothing Society' [Senn]
17.667 "proprietress"
[pic] [pic source]
17.723 "Mendoza"
[passim]
17.727 "suil"
Shule Aroon [lyric&midi;] [lyric] [midi direct] lyric
17.755 "Dun Cow"
[etext-Gaelic]
17.763 "Kolod..."
Hatikvah [lyric&midi;] [direct midi]
17.773 "ogham"
[info] ditto [fonts] [divination] [links]
17.802 "Little Harry Hughes"
The rest of the lyric: "The first that come out was a Jew's daughter, Was dressed all in green: Come in, come in, my little sir Hugh, You shall have your ball again. O no, O no, I dare not acome Without my playmates too; For if my mother should be at the door She would cause my poor heart to rue. The first she offered him was a fig, the next a finer thing, The third a cherry as red as blood, And that enticed him in. She set him up in a gilty chair, She gave him sugar sweet She laid him out on a dresser board And stabbed him like a sheep."cf [lyric]
17.947 "Sinico"
cf 'A Painful Case' [etext]
17.1037 "heaventree"
cf Dante line 135ff "I saw, through a round opening, some of those things of beauty Heaven bears" [etext]
17.1074 "9th"
[info] via Hatzipolakis
17.1087 "atmospheric pressure of 19 tons"
implies 18 square feet of skin, a reasonable number [Cecil]Rose 'corrects' this to 'atmospheric pressure of 14.6 pounds per square inch' [Senn]
17.1145 "probable spectators"
1922 had 'future spectators' and inserted 'probable' between suppositious and apposition. it seems to me unlike Joyce to omit 'future' altogether (but I'm coming from FW).
17.1244 "jew's harp"
metaphorical only, for the sound of his boots
green = easychair grey = mantel circle = cane chair purple = sofa blue and white = small table brown = sideboard black = piano missing from pix: big table, rug, flag, bookshelves, chairs?
17.1274 "arrested"
thread: [password] ditto ditto ditto ditto
17.1284 "majolicatopped"
[info]
17.1285 "walnut sideboard"
cf pix. these are usually deep, often very tall with projecting bits. normally it would be in the diningroom, so the Blooms may eat here. it's impossible that one person could move it alone, except by sliding it and scratching the floor. Molly might have had Boylan's help, or less likely old Mrs Fleming.
17.1303 "piano"
Boylan probably rented this from Pohlman's on Dawson street while Bloom and Stephen were in the Library [more]
17.1322 "cone"
cf Odysseus "Bring sulphur, old nurse, that cleanses all pollution and bring me fire, that I may purify the house with sulphur" [Homer]
17.1335 "timepiece"
cf [modern]
17.1335 "marble"
[pix]
17.1363 "Poetical Works"
cf [etext]
17.1367 "Secret History"
[Bibliofind]
17.1370 "When We Were Boys"
[Bibliofind]
17.1373 "Story of the Heavens"
[pix] [Bibliofind]
17.1374 "Three Trips"
[Bibliofind]
17.1375 "Stark-Munro"
[etext] [Amazon]
17.1381 "Life of Napoleon"
[Bibliofind]
17.1383 "Soll"
[Bibliofind] [Amazon] English
17.1385 "Russo-Turkish"
[Bibliofind]
17.1388 "Bloomfield"
[Amazon] [Bibliofind]
17.1395 "In the Track"
[Bibliofind]
17.1397 "Strength"
[info&pic;]
17.1398 "Short but yet"
[$250]
17.1427 "statue"
cf [pix]
17.1428 "Narcissus"
[info]
17.1470 "Pig's Foot"
Rose 'corrects' this budget with added items for 'Tram', 'Mrs Cohen', and 'Coffee and bun'. [Kidd]
17.1505 "dwellinghouse"
cf [old ad]
17.1638 "Society for promoting"
[passim] ditto
17.1659 "Building Society"
cf [old ad]
17.1774 "first drawer"
[tribute-Spanish]
17.1775 "Vere Foster's"
[hand sample] [bio&pic;]
17.1779 "Maud Branscombe"
[pix]
17.1801 "N. IGS./WI.UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'N.IGS./WI.UU.OX/W.OKS.MH/MI.Y' [Senn]
17.1808 "Lottery"
Jungian: "The inadequacy of expert opinion as to a defendant's mental competence is illustrated in the case of a woman accused of fraud after obtaining money to pay for a nonexistent winning ticket in the Hungarian lottery..." [cite]
17.1809 "postcards"
cf [R rated] [eBay] [background]
17.1814 "stamp"
cf [info&pix;]
17.1864 "Canadian"
[history]
17.1909 "Maria Theresia"
Austrian (?) form of Maria Theresa [phiz] [Cath] [EB]
17.1913 "map of Europe"
1860 (400k) or 1871 (400k)
17.1944 "Royal Hospital"
[info&pic;]
17.1977 "Brigid's elm in Kildare"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'Brigid's oak in Kildare' [Senn]
17.2061 "brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack"
cf "Zeus thundered loud showing forth his tokens" [Homer] and Ithaca notesheet: "Ul prays signs. Zeus farts" blue
17.2110 "bed"
thread: [password]
17.2250 "modifications"
see [cite-Japanese]
17.2250 "narrator"
cf "in turn, Odysseus, of the seed of Zeus, recounted all the griefs he had wrought on men, and all his own travail and sorrow, and she was delighted with the story, and sweet sleep fell not upon her eyelids till the tale was ended" [Homer]
17.2282 "there remained a period of 10 years, 5 months and 18 days"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'there remained a period of 10 years, 6 months and 19 days' [Senn]some biographers think this was also true of Joyce and Nora after her 1908 miscarriage [password]
17.2308 "westward"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'eastward' [Senn]
17.2328 "Going to dark"
cf "This was the last word of the tale, when sweet sleep came speedily upon him, sleep that loosens the limbs of men, unknitting the cares of his soul." [Homer]
17.2332 "."
Groden: "Joyce wanted the episode's last question - 'Where?' - to be answered by a fairly large dot. He wrote to the printer: 'La réponse à la dernière demande est un point.' When the mark wasn't big enough to please him, he wrote, 'Comme réponse un point bien visible' and again 'Ce point doit être plus visible.' He got his point in the first edition, although no one has ever been certain about just how big Joyce wanted it to be. But subsequent editions have repeatedly messed up the point - proofreaders and printers keep thinking the dot is a smudge and take it out. Some printings of the Gabler edition are missing this dot/point/mark. If your text lacks one, put one in as an act of textual restoration." [cite]
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