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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]
To get from Dalkey to Sandymount, SD probably takes the Dalkey Tram [pic] [pic source] [info] [site 1905].
At the start of ch6 we'll catch a glimpse of SD just before the start of Proteus.
3: Proteus
[etext]
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Linati schema: "Prima materia" [more]
Odyssey: Book IV, [Menelaus on Proteus] [more]
# SD walks on Sandymount strand
# SD imagines visiting his uncle
# SD ponders his youthful ambitions
# SD reminisces about his Paris adventure
# more reminiscences about Kevin Egan
# SD looks around, ponders Tower-dilemma, sits
# SD warily watches dog
# SD watches gypsy couple pass
# SD scrawls poem ideas
# SD masturbates?, picks nose
3.2 "Signatures of all things"
Boehme [info]
3.2 "seaspawn and seawrack"
birth and death
3.4 "coloured signs"
cf Berkeley "what we immediately and properly see are only lights and colours in sundry situations and shades and degrees of faintness and clearness, confusion and distinctness" [etext, par77]
3.5 "By knocking"
cf Boswell on Johnson on Berkeley [quote] [context, 6Aug]
3.6 "millionaire"
Aristotle [EB]
3.6 "maestro di color che sanno"
Dante on Aristotle: "the master of the men who know" [see 04.132] SD surely once wanted that title for himself, but maybe he's outgrown that dream by now?
3.7 "Limit of the diaphane in. Why in?"
Relentless word by word analysis. [etext] [essay] Habermalz: "visual perception can distinguish form and color of an object, but not its substance. The idea is that by looking at something just from the sheer looks you cannot tell if it is solid or soft or anything. And also that color manifests itself on the outer surface of things. That is what is meant by 'limit of the diaphane'" [cite]
3.10 "closed his eyes to hear"
Joyce in FW contrasts those who see and those who hear, as Shaun and Shem.
3.13 "nacheinander"
Lessing [cite]. Sequential media (like Ulysses itself) gain on second viewing, because you can foresee their future shape [discussion]"Joyce may be musical in taste rather than pictorial, yet his view of life is that of a painter surveying a still scene rather than that of a musician following a development through time." (Budgen, 156)
3.18 "Los demiurgos"
Kidd complains that Gabler de-italicised 'Los' despite Joyce's underlining. Blake on Los [etext]; Demiurge [Cath]
3.18 "walking into eternity"
cf Blake "I stooped down & bound it on to walk forward thro' Eternity" [etext]
3.23 "Acatalectic"
Gabler has a difficult argument for this form instead of 'A catalectic' [more]
3.29 "steps"
Tindall's Joyce Country has a very clear photo of these-- they have to come down about five steps, facing north and mostly concealed by the thick concrete wall. Stephen is probably south of them, and sees only their backs at first
3.32 "midwife's bag"
Habermalz: "doctors used to have leather bags of a very distinct shape, and if women carried a bag of that shape, the logical assumption would have been, that they were midwives" [cite]
3.32 "gamp"
a large umbrella, after Sarah Gamp, nurse in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens [etext]
3.34 "relict"
Seaboyer: "Stephen is beginning to recognise Dublin itself as material for literature." [cite]
3.39 "Hello!"
[pic]
3.39 "Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one."
Some US phone systems starting after 1879 used two letters and five digits [cite]. (Dial-it-yourself didn't start until after 1910.)
3.41 "Adam Kadmon"
cf HP Blavatsky [etext]; analysis
3.43 "corn, orient"
Thomas Traherne [fanpage]
3.48 "He willed me and now may not will me away or ever. A lex eterna stays about Him. Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial?"
Aquinas [etext] cf 1908 notebook: "Jesus: The dove above his head is the lex eterna which overshadows the mind and will of God."also cf 1920 Oxen notesheet: "Fucker obliges God to create"
3.50 "to try conclusions"
cf Hamlet [etext]
3.55 "nipping"
cf Hamlet [etext]
3.57 "Mananaan"
or Manannan [info], ditto, [pic&info;] ditto
3.59 "good young imbecile"
SD equates thrift with cowardly conformity.this phrase is recorded elsewhere as JSJ referring to James
posting: [password] [discussion]
3.61 "Am I going to Aunt Sara's or not?"
Is he already thinking of finding a new place to stay tonight?Gabler has 'aunt'.
the real-life Murray family was JAJ's mother's brother William, his wife Josephine, two sons over 16, and four daughters aged 5 to 15. William was an accountant, and contributed traits to Farrington in 'Counterparts' [qv] and Joe in 'Clay' [qv] (and even Shem in Finnegans Wake). They never lived in Sandymount, that I can find-- they were in Fairview in 1904, far to the north.
3.62 "father's"
[pic of father]
3.62 "Did you see"
cf Telem to Eurycleia re sneaking off: "tell no word thereof to my dear mother, till at least it shall be the eleventh or twelfth day from hence, or till she miss me of herself" [Homer]
3.62 "brother"
[pic&info;] [pic] ditto thread [password]
3.63 "Strasburg terrace"
[pic] [pic source]
3.63 "aunt Sally"
oddly inconsistent with SD's Sara-- maybe JSJ used a derogatory version of 'Jo'?
3.64 "And and and and"
Probably Simon making fun of someone's stutter-- Walter's?
3.67 "Highly respectable gondoliers"
Gilbert & Sullivan [lyric] [plot summary] [art]
3.76 "In his broad bed nuncle Richie"
In fact, May Murray Joyce's brother William Murray was dying of syphilis. (Also, SD is comparing his situation to Shakespeare's, as he'll portray it in his Hamlet theory. [Stack])
3.83 "Wilde's Requiescat"
[etext] (strongly influenced Joyce's Chamber Music? [etext] ditto)
3.90 "lithia water"
ie, with lithium salts, from a spring in Georgia, USA [history]
3.99 "All'erta"
from Verdi's Il Trovatore [info] [RealAud] ditto
3.107 "Marsh's library"
[update] [pic-int] ditto [site pic] [pix index] [info] Gabler has 'Library'.
3.108 "Joachim Abbas"
[Cath]
3.111 "Houyhnhnm"
Swift [etext]
3.123 "Occam"
[Cath] [EB]
3.128 "Cousin Stephen, you will never be a saint."
cf Dryden: 'Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet.'
3.133 "Howth tram"
cf [pic] [pic source]
3.135 "What else"
cf BM at 1.505 "Damn all else they are good for." [Habermalz]
3.136 "Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young."
These memories are probably just a year or two back, actually. See for example the extreme posturing of the Feb1904 Portrait [etext] Joyce's reading: timeline.
3.141 "epiphanies"
cf 'signatures': "By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments. He told Cranly that the clock of the Ballast Office was capable of an epiphany. ...'I will pass it time after time... It is only an item in the catalogue of Dublin's street furniture. Then all at once I see it and I know at once what it is: epiphany... Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised... After the analysis which discovers the second quality [symmetry, following wholeness] the mind makes the only possible synthesis and discovers the third quality [claritas or radiance]. This is the moment which I call epiphany. First we recognise that the object is one integral thing, then we recognise that it is an organised composite structure, a thing in fact: finally, when the relation of the parts is exquisite, when the parts are adjusted to the special point, we recognise that it is that thing which it is. Its soul, its whatness, leaps to us from the vestment of its appearance. The soul of the commonest object, the structure of which is so adjusted, seems to us radiant. The object achieves its epiphany." (JAJ, Stephen Hero)cf Portrait [context] [Aquinas] (halfway down page). Essays: Valente, Landow, Eco, Schiralli, Manty
3.143 "Alexandria"
[essay]
3.144 "mahamanvantara"
[def]
3.144 "Pico della Mirandola"
[EB]
3.144 "very like a whale"
Polonius, in Hamlet [context] So SD sees his past self as ridiculously stupid? [Stack]
3.144 "When one reads"
cf Pater: "And yet to read a page of one of Pico's forgotten books is like a glance into one of those ancient sepulchres..." [etext]
3.148 "unnumbered pebbles"
King Lear [context]
3.156 "Ringsend"
[old pic] (Stephen is some ways south of those 'wigwams' on the left) [pic source]
3.160 "Pigeonhouse"
[old pic] [pic source] [current] [history] ditto ditto
3.164 "wild goose"
any Irish exile [website]
3.164 "MacMahon"
[Cath]
3.167 "Michelet"
[EB] [French]
3.167 "Leo Taxil"
[info] [info]
3.176 "Paysayenn"
PCN, rare on web [eg]
3.177 "fleshpots of Egypt"
sounds like sex, really refers to meat [ref]
3.178 "Just say in the most natural tone: when I was in Paris; boul' Mich', I used to."
Posing. [map]
3.185 "mother's money order"
We probably should not imagine this money order being used to pay for SD's trip home on receiving Simon's telegram-- more likely it was for the Xmas trip home. JAJ had to beg money from one of his two English pupils for the April 11 trip (though Costello says he'd received 13/9 on 8 April for his interview with a race driver in the Irish Times!??).cf Penelope's dream, pleading with Athena about T: "And now, again, my well-beloved son is departed on his hollow ship, poor child, not skilled in toils or in the gatherings of men. For him I sorrow yet more than for my lord, and I tremble and fear for him lest aught befal him, whether, it may be, amid that folk where he is gone, or in the deep. For many foemen devise evil against him, and go about to kill him, or ever he come to his own country." [Homer]
3.192 "Missionary to Europe after fiery Columbanus. Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven spilt from their pintpots, loudlatinlaughing: Euge! Euge!"
cf 1908 notebook: "Duns Scotus has won a poorer fame than S. Fiacre, whose legend sown in French soil, has grown up a harvest of hackney cabs. If he and Columbanus the fiery, whose fingertips God illumined, and Fridolinus Viator can see as far as earth from their creepy-stools in heaven they know that Aquinas, the lucid sensual Latin, has won the day." So how is Aquinas 'sensual'??? [essay on Aquinas on sensuality]
3.194 "Euge! Euge!"
Well done! (Latin) Used ironically/mockingly in Psalms: [eg] [eg] Also in Augustine 1.13.21 "O God... I did not love thee, and thus committed fornication against thee. Those around me, also sinning, thus cried out: 'Well done! Well done!' The friendship of this world is fornication against thee; and 'Well done! Well done!' is cried until one feels ashamed not to show himself a man in this way." [etext] So does SD see himself as a failed missionary for Aquinas? (One of Shaun's names in FW is Eugenius.)
3.196 "Newhaven"
[map]; crossingpoint for Channel to/from Dieppe [old pix]
3.199 "Nother dying"
Rose restores the pre-Gabler 'Mother' [Senn]
3.201 "Then here's a health"
Mat Hanigan's Aunt [pic]
3.206 "south wall"
seawall built 1773 [history] more
3.212 "a saucer of acetic acid in her hand"
Why? Gifford speculates for cleaning limestone. "White vinegar cleans windows, counter tops, chrome, grease, floors, etc." [cite] But a saucer is asking for spillage!?SD here is portraying a foreign place he has been.
3.227 "Arthur Griffith"
[bio] [EB]
3.227 "AE"
[bio]
3.231 "Drumont"
[short bio]
3.233 "Maud Gonne... M. Millevoye"
lovers [info] [MG fanpage] [pic] [portrait]
3.233 "Felix Faure"
[lurid anecdote] [pic of grave]
3.243 "Malahide"
[map]
3.247 "Burke"
[bio]
3.247 "tanist"
[def] [legal] ditto
3.247 "Clerkenwell"
[contemporary reaction] ditto
3.251 "Montmartre"
as SD is thinking this, a penurious Pablo Picasso is probably asleep in his studio in Montmartre, perhaps with his own first lover, Fernande [more]
3.252 "faces of the gone"
Gifford gets this all wrong-- it's just faded posters of Fenian heroes.
3.257 "The boys of Kilkenny"
[lyric&midi;] [lyric]
3.259 "castle"
[pic&info;] [timeline]
3.260 "Napper Tandy"
Wearing of the Green [WolfeTones] [Judy Garland] [RealAud] banjo [direct midi] [lyric&midi;]
3.281 "sable silvered"
cf Hamlet [etext]
3.281 "tempting flood"
cf Hamlet [etext]
3.286 "bladderwrack"
[scuba pic] [pix&info;]
3.287 "Veuillot"
[Cath]
3.288 "Gautier's"
[autobiog sketch]
3.298 "No, the dog."
SD realises the figures can't be the Frauenzimmer, who had no dog. [more]
3.302 "when Malachi"
from "Let Erin Remember" [RealAud] [lyric&midi;] lyric
3.303 "whales"
in 1331 [cite]
3.303 "hot noon"
cf Proteus's daughter to Menelaus: "So often as the sun in his course stands high in mid heaven, then forth from the brine comes the ancient one of the sea" [Homer] also below 3.442 "faunal noon"
3.305 "with flayers' knives"
cf Menelaus "my company, who were ever roaming round the isle, fishing with bent hooks, for hunger was gnawing at their belly" [Homer]
3.308 "I spoke to no-one"
cf The Jolly Miller [RealAud] ditto [lyric&midi;] ditto
3.312 "fortune's knave"
cf Hamlet [etext]
3.325 "Out quickly"
cf 1908 notebook: "Dedalus: He dreaded the sea that would drown his body and the crowd that would drown his soul."
3.377 "Royal Dublins"
[history] [pic-tin]
3.381 "White thy fambles"
"The Rogue's Delight in Praise of His Strolling Mort" (1673)1. Doxy oh! Thy Glaziers shine
As Glymmar by the Salomon,
No Gentry Mort hath prats like thine
No Cove e're wap'd with such a one.
[Loose translation:]
My honey chuck, byth' Mass I swear,
Thine eyes do shine than fire more clear.
No silken Girl hath thighs like thine,
No Doe was ever buck'd like mine.2. White thy fambles, red thy gan,
And thy quarrons dainty is,
Couch a hogshead with me than,
In the Darkmans clip and kiss.
[Trans:]
Thy hand is white and red thy lip,
Thy dainty body I will clip.
Let's down to sleep our selves then lay,
Hug in the dark and kiss and play....7. Bing awast to Rome-vile then
O my dimber wapping Dell,
Wee'l heave a booth and dock agen
Then trining scape and all is well.
[Trans:]
Therefore to London let us hie
O thou my sweet bewitching eye,
There wee'l rob and kiss pell-mell,
Escaping Tyburn all is well. [Schutte]
3.397 "He comes"
cf 'My Grief on the Sea' [RealAud] [lyric]posting: [password] ditto [discussion]
3.399 "My tablets"
cf Hamlet [etext]
3.407 "slips"
Byrne writes: "The finished poems were invariably done on slips of good quality white paper provided free and in abundance to the readers of the National Library. The slips were approximately 7 5/8 inches in length by 3 3/8 inches in width." [jfb64]
3.416 "Cloyne"
[map]
3.426 "She, she, she. What she? ... Better get this job over quick."
Stephen may well be summoning a masturbatory fantasy here. [more]
3.426 "Hodges Figgis"
[website]
3.440 "Welcome as the flowers in May"
[RealAud]
3.441 "Under its leaf"
cf Mallarme [overkill] simpler
3.451 "Wilde's love that dare not speak its name. His arm: Cranly's arm. He now will leave me. And the blame? As I am. As I am. All or not at all."
Bosie's love, actually [etext] [background] ditto
3.453 "Cock lake"
[info]
3.456 "job"
posting: [password] [discussion]
3.469 "courts"
cf? Dryden line 72 "From its old ruins brothel-houses rise, Scenes of lewd loves, and of polluted joys. Where their vast courts, the mother-strumpets keep, And, undisturb'd by watch, in silence sleep." [etext]
3.470 "Full fathom five"
[RealAud] [RealAud] ditto
3.487 "My cockle hat"
How should I your true love know [RealAud] [lyric&midi;]cf Hamlet [etext]
3.490 "Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me."
Some interpret this as a suicidal reflection.
3.491 "Of all the glad"
Tennyson [quote]
3.494 "My teeth are very bad. Why, I wonder. Feel. That one is going too. Shells. Ought I go to a dentist, I wonder, with that money? That one. This. Toothless Kinch, the superman. Why is that, I wonder, or does it mean something perhaps?"
[dental prices]
3.504 "crosstrees"
Budgen tells how he corrected Joyce's use of this word, and Joyce was grateful but said it was already part of a pattern and couldn't be changed (cf ch9's WS crucified?) [more]
Where is Menelaus's foreshadowing Odysseus's attack on the suitors? [Homer]
Telemachus disappears almost entirely from Homer's Odyssey from Book V thru XIV.
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