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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]
5: Lotus-eaters
[etext]
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Linati schema: "The Seduction of the Faith" [more]
Odyssey: IX, adventure (one paragraph)
Thematically, Homer's version is almost identical to his own Sirens.
Joyce doesn't explicitly mention lotuses in the chapter [pic&info;]
# LB moseys slyly towards secret destination
# LB gets mail at PO, walks into M'Coy
# LB tries to ogle rich lady despite blocks
# LB escapes M'Coy with valise intact
# LB sneaks into alley to read letter
# LB ecstatically destroys evidence
# LB sneaks out of alley via church service
# LB ponders baffling rites
# LB ponders confessional, service ends
# LB exits to drugstore for MB's lotion
# LB gets soap, walks into Bantam, throwaway 'tip'
# LB strolls towards bath
5.1 "lorries"
Gifford misidentifies these as cranes-- they're just flat wagons
5.1 "along sir John Rogerson's quay"
LB is south of the river, walking away from the Post Office which he wants to visit without being seen. 360 degree Quicktime VR tour
5.2 "linseed"
linseed oil is an herbal remedy for various soothing purposes [cite] cf 'oilcakes' at 4.480
5.5 "boy for the skins... his bucket of offal"
Gifford says just a trashpicker, but it sounds like there's a slaughterhouse involved?the 1920 schema gives 'skin' as the organ of this episode, changed in the 1921 version to 'genitals' (long after the chapter was done) [more]
5.5 "linked"
Gifford gets this wrong-- the handle of the bucket is resting (lazily?) over his arm, not held in his hand
5.8 "O let him!"
Bloom-as-Odysseus here may be allowing one of his men to risk the tobacco/lotusHeron in Portrait complains that Dedalus doesn't smoke [qv] but in Stephen Hero he smokes in the earliest surviving chapter, around age 16.
5.9 "Slack hour: won't be many there."
Joyce presumably chose 10am for the Lotus adventure because he saw it as the slackest time of day.'there' means the post office-- Bloom has approached within a block and is debating whether he's delayed long enough to turn now
5.10 "Bethel"
on the front of the Salvation Army hall
5.18 "Oriental Tea"
[ad essay] pix
5.19 "Rather warm."
Bloom is getting into character here, in order to play realistically his 'mopping-the-forehead' dodge
5.20 "Tom Kernan"
central character in 'Grace' [etext] supposedly based on Richard 'Ned' Thornton (but 'Grace' is largely based on John Joyce)
5.31 "lianas"
[info]
5.32 "dolce far niente"
delightful idleness [def] cf Pre-Raphaelite theme [painting] ditto ditto
5.34 "Flowers of idleness"
19yo Byron's second book of poems was called 'Hours of Idleness' [cite]
5.34 "Azotes"
'without life' Lavoisier's name for nitrogen [etext] [bio]
5.35 "Hothouse"
[pic] ditto [background]
5.35 "Sensitive plants"
[background]
5.38 "floating"
[website]
5.39 "Because the weight of the water"
we might see this as Bloom 'doing times tables' to distract himself from thinking about his guilt
5.42 "Vance"
not really a teacher, rather a chemist, father of Joyce's childhood friend Eileen, mentioned in Portrait 1 [qv] (the sciences of this chapter are botany and chemistry) [more]
5.42 "High school"
[website]
5.53 "postoffice"
[pic] street
5.53 "Too late box. Post here."
Bloom is calculating that he can reply to Martha here after hours, using one of the special mailboxes provided for that purpose
5.58 "smelling freshprinted rag paper"
(so did J find this scent soothing?)
5.62 "Henry"
Gifford notes this name means 'ruler of the home'
5.62 "Henry Flower"
Joyce has hidden a very significant puzzle here-- he's taken this name from a notorious (purported) murderer in 1900 Dublin. [more] In the fictional world, this murder must not have happened, or the postmistress (and Martha!) would be alarmed by the name. (The Hades cortege starts almost at the exact site, but without notice in conspicuous contrast to the 1899 Childs murder site.)even worse, Ellmann thinks Joyce took the idea of Milly's job as a photogirl from a murder in a Wexford photoshop in 1910-- where the murderer was a mad Jew named Bloom. [e375] The coincidence of the name in 1910-- long before Joyce had mentioned it or put it on paper-- forces us to ask whether Joyce didn't take the name from this specific case: implying 'Bloom' and 'Flower' were both murderers of young women!?!?
so as an inconceivably-long-shot, we need to ask whether Bloom's extreme paranoia might not indicate a crime he's planned, far worse than adultery? (or at least, Joyce wants us to question why he might think about it, and how we can be sure he wouldn't... and also whether Joyce had such thoughts in youth or even maturity...?)
5.65 "Answered"
the Linati schema [qv] claims there are two (? or just 'a second') Nausikaa-figures in this episode, one of whom must be Martha
5.70 "Maud Gonne's letter"
cf [speech]
5.71 "Griffith's paper"
United Irishman [logo] [badge] [bio]
5.82 "M'Coy"
the Linati schema [qv] claims Eurylochus and Polites appear in this episode, apparently the two crewmen Odysseus sends out and then drags back after they get addicted. M'Coy must be one, Bantam Lyons the other. my Circe notes have this summary for Eurylochus: "Eurylochus: excellent, greathearted, close relative of Ul, leads half the men (22) to Circe's trap and returns alone, distrusts Circe too much, coward, threatened by Ul with beheading" and this note for Polites: Circe 2:37 "Polites. Ul. Favourite" [more]
5.96 "Holohan"
cf 'A Mother' [etext] also 'Two Gallants' passimNora told Joyce a man named Holohan had propositioned her at Finn's hotel [cite]
5.98 "outsider"
jaunting car [explan] [pic&info;] pic-mirror [pic] [comic]
5.99 "Grosvenor"
a fashionable hotel across from the PO, a little northwest [map]
5.100 "She stood"
the other Nausikaa?
5.107 "Bob Doran"
cf 'The Boarding House' [etext]
5.107 "periodical bends"
cf crewmen addicted to lotus
5.108 "Bantom Lyons"
cf 'Ivy Day' [etext]
5.108 "Conway's"
visible at the southwest end of the street
5.109 "Doran Lyons in Conway's."
Making a mental note for possible later use. [pic] [pic source]
5.111 "vailed eyelids"
cf Hamlet "thy vailed lids" [etext]
5.112 "braided drums"
feature of gloves? [lateral braiding]
5.117 "Broadstone"
[old pic] [old pix&info;] [pic]
5.119 "Two strings"
[ref]
5.132 "pugnose"
reappears almost 14 hours later at 15.192 [qv] (maybe working a double shift?)
5.132 "Paradise and the peri"
Thomas Moore [quotes] [illustrations]
5.133 "Always happening like that."
(Bloom's incipient superstitiousness?)
5.138 "Loop Line bridge"
[info] current fate
5.144 "What is home"
[pic] cf ditto
5.151 "Ulster hall"
[pic]
5.154 "Queen"
2nd ref to nursery rhyme. [qv] cf 4.474 (maid)
5.181 "Wicklow regatta"
around 1 August [2000 calendar]
5.191-269 [much-corrected proofs pictured in Joyce Images pp46-47]
5.193 "Cantrell and Cochrane's"
[homepage]
5.194 "Clery's"
[pix index]
5.194 "No, he's going on straight"
Bloom waits at the corner so M'Coy won't see which way he goes?
5.194 "Leah"
[info]
5.194 "Mrs Bandmann Palmer"
H.F. Maltby in his 1950 autobiography "Ring up the curtain" recalls her c1903: "Mrs Bandmann-Palmer, at the time I joined her company, must have been about sixty years of age. She was a little stumpy woman, who nearly always dressed in tweeds; short, sort of mountaineering skirts, funny little tweed hats, thick worsted stockings, hob-nailed boots and carried a heavy oak walking-stick ... she had an exceptionally pretty voice, which even years of ranting in third-rate theatres had not destroyed. She played Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Isabel in East Lynne, Jane Shore, Nell Gwyn, Sappho, Lady Teazle, Leah-The Forsaken and Portia. She also played Hamlet 'with the usual double', that is to say she played Hamlet and hell with it. For most of her parts she was totally unsuited either on account of age or build ... She must undoubtedly have been a very good actress in her time, but having for years torn every passion to tatters she had developed into the real barn-stormer, and the audiences at the theatres we visited loved her. She was out for money, and she made it". [smurthwaite]
5.195 "Hamlet she played"
1900 review of Sarah Bernhardt as H
5.196 "Ophelia"
cf Hamlet [etext]
5.197 "Kate Bateman"
[memoir] [theater history]
5.199 "Ristori"
[bio] irrelevant quote: "Adelaide Ristori was the heroine of the hour in my first days in New York. I saw her first in "Marie Antoinette," and in her other roles later, and her extraordinary talent on the stage, joined to her all-pervading common-sense and love of her family, rather disproved my conception expressed above. She was about fifty when she came to America, and looked very much younger. As the Marchioness del Grillo Capricani she was invited a great deal to the best houses. At one of the Roosevelt balls Madame Ristori, beautifully gowned, sat in the cotillon, and danced whenever taken out." [cite] [taught Dumas pasta]
5.211 "hazard"
a cab-stand, maybe because "cab stands were certainly hazards to traffic since they occupied a substantial portion of the street with cabs pulling in and out and customers approaching from any direction" [cite]
5.211 "Nosebag"
[def]
5.213 "oats"
one of the symbols of the chapter, also considered herbally soothing [cite]
5.217 "Gelded"
[veterinary]
5.218 "stump"
[hygeine]
5.223 "cabman's shelter... drifting"
[explan] [London version]
5.227 "Là ci darem"
see note at 4.314 [qv]
5.230 "Meade's"
[1850 listing]
5.231 "tenements"
1900: "Over a quarter of Dublin's population-- some 20,000 families-- lived in one-room flats in tenement buildings. 1,500 of the 5,000 tenements had been formally condemned as unfit for human habitation." [cite] more
5.232 "pickeystone"
for hopscotch (?) [history]
5.232 "Not a sinner"
Gifford claims this is a reference to hopscotch, wrt Bloom's 'careful tread', but I can't find it
5.233 "taw... cunny"
marbles [how-to]
5.236 "dame's school"
6yo Joyce in 1887-88 attended Miss Raynor's dame school (nursery school) in Bray with Eileen Vance
5.237 "mignonette"
a perfume scent and the tiny yellow flower that produces it [pic] [info](Joyce must intend that Bloom's ESP is anticipating Martha's yellow flower and her question about perfume!??)
5.261 "Language of flowers"
[etext] [info]
5.272 "Cigar"
[pix]
5.289 "that picture"
[Vermeer] ditto ditto big jpeg [index]
5.304 "Iveagh"
Guinness heir [history] [Ardilaun]
5.318 "All Hallows"
aka St Andrew's [map] [pic] [pic]
5.323 "Claver"
[Cath]
5.327 "opium"
[essay]
5.330 "Saint Patrick"
If Gabler wanted to regularise Joyce's use of capitals, he should have made this 'saint'. The issue is especially unintuitive because when it's part of a place name (like "Saint Mark's" at 6.183) the capital must be retained.
5.331 "Martin Cunningham"
cf Grace [etext]
5.332 "choir"
Pius X says no [etext]
5.344 "the thing"
ciborium [glossary]
5.352 "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse."
cf SD's "Chewer of corpses"
5.365 "Lourdes"
[homepage]
5.365 "Knock apparition"
[homepage]
5.367 "Safe in the arms"
cf [RealAud] ditto
5.376 "Dusk and the light"
from Gilbert & Sullivan [lyric&midi;]
5.378 "invincibles"
[EB]
5.387 "Wine"
[essay]
5.388 "Guinness's"
[essay]
5.396 "Gardiner street"
St Francis Xavier [map] [info] [tidbit]
5.397 "Stabat Mater"
{RealAud] ditto
5.398 "Father Bernard Vaughan"
[Chesterton passim] mirror (contributed traits to FW's Kevin vignette)
5.405 "Palestrina"
[RealAud]Edward Martyn had founded Dublin's Palestrina Choir in 1902 [info]
5.432 "Salvation army"
[homepage]
5.455 "Glimpses"
cf Hamlet [etext]
5.463 "Sweny's"
[map] [pix index] [pic] ditto ditto
5.510 "soaps"
we'll learn at 17.231 that this is Barrington's brand [pic] [essay]
5.524 "Pears' soap"
[history] [ad theory] [pix index]
5.532 "Ascot"
[15Jun04] [still running]
5.551 "cyclist doubled up"
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye [RealAud] [direct midi]
5.556 "on the nod"
[def]
5.561 "Donnybrook fair"
[memoir]
5.563 "Always passing"
'In Happy Moments Day by Day' [essay]
5.571 "father of thousands"
various plants that propagate shoots from their leaves are called 'mother of thousands' [pic&info;]