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Eolus not Aeolus, Nausikaa not Nausicaa, Eumeus not Eumaeus
Bloom was half-Jewish, not Jewish.
"maintained by R.L. Callahan" (no sign of maintenance)
"the original Joycean website" (not much original)
"1899: ...Later this year Joyce presents a paper, entitled "Drama and Life," to the University's Literary and Historical Society." (20Jan 1900)
"1930: James Joyce and Nora Barnacle marry. John Joyce, the writer's father, dies." (1931)
[cabman's shelter too far north]
WIP: Joyce's Schema for Ulysses
"minor but interesting disparities" quite considerable [detail]
misspellings: 'Aeolus' for 'Eolus', 'Nausicaa' for 'Nausikaa', 'Eumaeus' for 'Eumeus'
"1899: Begins college at University College, Dublin" (1898)
"1904: Elopes with Nora; begins sketching A Portrait" (order reversed-- Stephen Hero well under way before he met Nora)
"1906: ...Most likely date of writing of Stephen Hero" (!? absurd)
"1907: Lucia, James and Nora's daughter, is born; they move back to Trieste; Chamber Music is published" (Lucia is third)
"1911: Gives lectures on Shakespeare in Trieste" (1912, on Hamlet)
"1914: Dubliners published; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is serialized in The Egoist" (order backwards)
"1941: Joyce dies in Zürich at the age of 59" (58)
"the Irish literary revival, which he denounced in a scurrilous broadsheet, The Holy Office, on the eve of his departure for the continent in 1904." (late July 1904, long before Oct departure)
"every time he changed his apartment (at least an annual occurrence)" (2 Square Robiac 1925-1931; 7 rue Edmond Valentin 1935-1939)
"his early fugitive productions were often improper or scandalous" (??? Rabblement, PoA04, Holy Office?)
"After a year of near starvation" (3 months)
"marks that turning point in his life at which he formally renounced the Christian faith" (not 1903, probably 1902 when Georgie died)
"last published letter, dated Dec 20, 1940" (postcard 04Jan to Stannie: SL408)
"a daughter in 1918" (1907!)
""Dubliners" is a series of short, interrelated stories" (interrelated?)
"and went into permanent exile himself" (1904, not 1915)
"echoed in several episodes" (all but one)
"1939, the year after the Joyces returned to Switzerland from France" ('1939, and the year after...')
"as each successive work increased in thematic scope and physical size" (FW is shorter than Ulysses)
Joyce - Works: Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
"A collection of short stories published in 1907" (1914)
"from a self-imposed exile in Paris" (1903 was an adventure, not an exile)
"non-practicing Jew" (his father converted from Judaism before he was born, his mother was not Jewish, he was not circumcised)
"it was the day that Nora, his future wife, gave him clear indication she liked him. Um, at Sandymount beach" (no-- their first date, but not the handjob, which wasn't at Sandymount anyway)
"attends a birth" (no, not Stephen-- his presence is coincidental)
"goes to bed" (no, not Stephen)
"Vico, an Italian philosopher who saw history as proceeding in four main cycles" (the ricorso was Joyce's addition)
Joyce - Works: Poetry, Plays, Fragments
"Nora Barnacle the role of his beloved" (no, almost all were written pre-Nora)
"is today almost completely forgotten" (lost)
"Probably composed around 1906" (Feb 1904-Jun 1905)
"Joyce reportedly threw the manuscript into a fire" (not SH, he tried to burn PoA1-3)
"It contains much of the material found in Portrait" (ch5 only)
"composed in 1907" (Giacomo was probably 1914)
misspellings: 'Aeolus' for 'Eolus', 'Nausicca' for 'Nausikaa', 'Eumaeus' for 'Eumeus'
'Eumaeus', 'Nausicaan'
7: misspells Eolus; 10: "A portrait of Dublin finds Stephen and Bloom crossing each other's paths twice" (no); 12: "Bloom, a Jew" (no); 13: "a pair of girls" (3-- Gerty, Cissy, and Edy); 14: "Stephen, who is preparing to go out on the town with Dr. Mulligan and others. Worried, Bloom takes Stephen under his wing." Mulligan has barely started medschool, SD isn't going anywhere with him, and LB doesn't take SD under his wing until the end of the next chapter
misspellings: 'Aeolus' for 'Eolus', 'Nausicaa' for 'Nausikaa', 'Eumaeus' for 'Eumeus'
"Sandycove... a few miles southeast" (8)
Lotus: "the land of the Cicones, the Lotus Eaters" (not the same)
Lotus: "the infected men" (addicted)
S&C: "Joyce's schema interprets the monster and the whirlpool as Plato and Aristotle and also as Stratford and London" (Aristotle and Plato)
Wandering Rocks: Thoughts and Questions
"If they are plotted on a map the two routes make an "X"" (not even close)
[character-list omits the nurses and Macintosh]
"the first long paragraph (14:7-32) is unable to work itself into grammatically complete sentences" (not so)
"From 14:70 to 14:1390, there are 40 paragraphs" (I count 43)
Circe: "Bloom's final "vision" of Stephen" (Rudy)
"Born July 3, 1882" (the mind reels)
"whores (who greeted him on the way to school)" (University, maybe, because he chose to go that route. not Belvedere or Clongowes, thank you. whores are not usually early risers.)
"interest in Aquinas" (um, not dangerous)
"Throughout his school years, he was cheerful, social and drunk in company" (no-- this was after graduation)
"Paris where he struggled financially in a variety of jobs" (journalist, poet, English lessons)
"He then returned to heavy drinking" (exaggerated)
"took ten years to finish" (16 or 17)
[Encarta's errors]
"Trieste, Italy" (Austria)
"an Irish Jew" (no)
pic shows brother Stannie, not father Jack
"That year or the next, he began to patronize local prostitutes." (no, 1898)
"briefly took Irish lessons from Padraic Pearse" (probably not)
"over the objections of school authorities" (unattested)
"Gogarty... was cut from the final draft in order to give more prominence to Stephen" (misleading-- PoA ends before JAJ met OG)
"the insubstantial "E. C.", or "Emma," Joyce seems to have had no such abiding passion." (Mary Cleary)
"infatuated for a time with a girl named Mary Sheehy for a time" (more likely Hanna Sheehy)
"Joyce began writing in earnest now" (PoA04 was January)
"that Stanislaus entitled" (implausible)
"in November, he left Dublin" (October!)
"Jewish advertising canvasser" (no)
"the Joyces had gone to Paris for a week's excursion. They wound up staying twenty years" (no, the intent was to relocate)
"Aeolus" (Eolus)
"From 1905 to 1906, Joyce rewrote the novel in different series of styles" (no)
"Finnegan's Wake" (no ')
James Augustine Joyce - biography
[repeats BrazenHead cut-and-paste]
"his early fugitive productions were often improper or scandalous" (??? Rabblement, PoA04, Holy Office?)
"After a year of near starvation" (3 months)
"marks that turning point in his life at which he formally renounced the Christian faith" (not 1903, probably 1902 when Georgie died)
"last published letter, dated Dec 20, 1940" (postcard 04Jan to Stannie: SL408)
"Jewish space salesman" (no)
"corrected approximately 5,000 errors" (no)
"during the last 15 years of his life" (17 of the last 19)
James Augustine Joyce - short biography
"family of fifteen" (12 at most)
"two years in Paris studying medicine" (one week studying, three months total)
"Nora Barnacle (1883-1951)" (1884)
"lived in Vienna" (never)
"from Dublin to Italy to Switzerland" (omits Austria)
"until February of 1921" (October)
"Nausicaa"
"In December 1940 Joyce was diagnosed with a perforated duodenal ulcer." (no, it was discovered during surgery in January)
"extracts from 1928 to 1937" (1924-1938)
misspellings: Aeolus, Nausicaa, Eumaeus, Telemachiad
"left Ireland (to return for only three visits) in 1902" (1904)
"Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97)" (to 1898)
"He spent in France a year" (3 months)
"a Jewish advertising canvasser" (half-Jewish)
"every line of only three writers: Flaubert, Ben Jonson and Ibsen" (and Defoe)
"The Annotated Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh" ('Annotations to FW')
"Paris, where he spent a year" (3 months)
"daughter in 1908" (1907)
"Clongowes Woods" (Wood)
"He wrote for subsequent distribution" (late July 1904, only lack of funds held it up)
"Jewish advertising salesman" (half-Jewish)
misspellings: AEolus, Nausicaa, Eumaeus
"Bloom voyeuristically observes Gerty and masturbates" (occurs before perspective-shift)
"Bloom helps Stephen away." (not until ch16)
"cabman's shelter (a pub" (explicitly non-alcoholic)
"Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-99)" (to 1898)
"University College in Dublin (1899-1902)" (1898-1902)
"a chain of motion picture theaters in Dublin" (chain in Ireland, one in Dublin)
"had to be abandoned" (didn't have to)
"Zurich, where he finished his novel A Portrait" (finished in Trieste)
"At this time he also wrote his only play" (1914-15)
"Shakespeare Company" (...and...)
"dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and her husband (in that order)" (no, the reverse)
"Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-1897)" (to 1898)
"He published none of his earliest creative work in his lifetime" (some of Chamber Music was very early)
"(of which he did publish a few copies privately)" (85 copies, sold in bookstores)
"two Ibsen-like plays" (one)
"translations of plays by both Ibsen and Gerhart Hauptmann" (not Ibsen)
"the story which became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man... at first just a story" (autobiographical essay, not a story)
"Stephen Daedalus" (Dedalus)
"published by Grant Richards in 1920" (1918)
"Lucia's poems" (I never heard of such a thing)
misspellings: Nausicaa, Eumaeus
"as Dublin merchants" (no)
"Clongowes School" (not its name-- C. Wood College)
"As James Joyce made contact with various members of the "Irish Literary Renaissance," his interest in the priesthood waned" (not a theory I've heard before)
"left Ireland in 1902 to pursue a medical education in Paris, and did not return to Ireland until the following year" (desperately homesick, returned almost immediately, stayed home a month before returning)
"After barely spending a year in Dublin, Joyce returned to the Continent" (18 months)
"drifting in and out of medical school in Paris" (nnnno)
"It was during this period that Joyce began writing professionally." (Paris 1902)
"a collection of eight stories" (12)
"not until 1913" (published 1914, printed but destroyed 1912)
"Irish Jew" (half-Jewish)
"Joyce cast the bulk of his manuscript into the fire" (PoA 1-3, not U)
"Nora Barnacle immediately rescued it" (sister Eileen Joyce)
"not until 1934, that Random House won a court battle" (1933)
"Finnegan's Wake" (I'd like to buy a no-apostrophe, Vanna)
"written over the span of several years" (7)
"alternate residences in Switzerland, Italy and France" (and Austria)
ClassicNotes: Ulysses Character List
misspellings: Nausicaa, Eumaeus, Aeolus
"he is a Jew" (half-Jewish)
"Martha Affiar" (Clifford)
"Bloom, Marcus J" (speculative-- not so named in U)
"(Marion Tweed)" (Tweedy)
"Molly is a Spaniard" (maybe half Spanish)
"Italianhotel" (no, Irish)
"carries a lamb" (no)
"with "U.P.: up" written on it" (probably just two letters, UP)
""The Lestrygonians" ... "The Wandering Rocks" ... "The Cyclops" ... "The Sirens"" (no 'The')
"Citizen" (The Citizen)
"Coffey, Father Francis" (firstname never mentioned)
"noble upbringing" (no)
"corrupt priest" ('spoiled' doesn't imply corrupt)
"ridiculous letter" (not that ridiculous)
"buys a liver" (kidney)
"Presumably a practicing Jew" (no, a porkbutcher)
"who has become an apostate" (from his father's converted Protestantism, not from Judaism which he never learned)
"(alcoholic) excesses" (sexual, historically)
"his assistance in the three-day labor" (not Horne personally)
"golden Oxen" (golden?)
"Kelleher rejects Bloom's call for assistance" (rather LB rejects CK's offer)
"fellow gamblers, Nosey Flynn and Davy Byrne" (not Byrne)
"MacCabe, Florence" (SD made up this name)
"Even as she is baby-sitting, accompanied by her friend" (after everyone else has left, actually)
"Mc'Intosh" (spelled Macintosh or Mackintosh or M'Intosh)
"While the character only appears once" (also in WRocks, Oxen, and Circe)
"his own home, Martello Tower" (no, it was Mulligan's)
"Murphy, W. B." (misreading of Joyce's 'D.B.')
ClassicNotes: Ulysses Short Summary
"middle-aged Jew" (half-Jew)
"Dedalus is an academic" (how so?)
"neither cognizant of the other" (Mulligan draws Stephen's attention to Bloom)
"including Mulligan" (no, Mulligan arrives later)
ClassicNotes: Ulysses Full Summary and Analysis
"for which only Stephen pays rent" (no)
"four younger sisters" (never stated?)
"who does not make equal payments towards their living expenses" (no)
"escape from a prison tower" (labyrinth)
"Bloom is a Jew" (half)
[this ClassicNotes-page goes on and on-- i may return to it later/elsewhere]
misspellings: Aeolus, Nausicaa, Eumaeus, Telemachiad
"he seeks counsel from the gods" (no, they offer it out of the blue)
"a friend who gossips about a drowning" (no)
"the bed-- it came, like Molly, from Gibraltar" (he's mistaken)
"after greeting a friend" (just a neighbor)
"fantasises about women" (a woman)
"a Jewish advertising salesman" (half-Jewish)
"at present, her lover" (not yet)
"recalls sado-masochistic passages from other letters" (no)
"first 'meeting'" (paths again cross without meeting, as in Hades)
"Ignatius Gallagher" (Gallaher)
"her previous lovers" (not lovers)
"office of the director" (no, of assistants Eglinton and Best)
"perhaps conceived adulterously" (I don't think this enters into it-- it would distort the filial connection)
"rationale behind the bard's self-exile" (estrangement from adulterous Ann, not from illegitimate son)
"3rd section occurs before the 1st" (parts of 1st occur later, but not the sailor-part...?)
"The barmaids at the Ormond Hotel see Bloom pass by" (no-- he hasn't passed yet)
"and also enters" (enters the adjoining restaurant)
"As an Irish Jew" (half-Jewish)
"The third narrator is referred to as the Citizen" (not a narrator)
"he can only write "I AM A"" (or just 'I A')
"W. B. Murphy" (printer's typo for DB)
"through the back door" (no, the basement-front areaway door)
"the pseudonym Stephen Dedalus" (Daedalus)
"In 1906-07, for eight months" (7)
"a Jewish advertising canvasser" (half-Jewish)
"Aeolus"
"later claims to have begun his "sexual life" in this, his fourteenth year." (1895 was 14th year)
"By June, Joyce has almost completed Stephen Hero" (almost abandoned it, only half-written)
"stuffed it into the burning stove" (1912)
"Nausicaa"
"an essay called Et Tu, Healy" (a poem, probably not really with that title)
"one of the principal components of the last chapter of his first completed novel" (??? she survives PoA5)
"Upon finishing the Portrait, Joyce in 1914 began to write Ulysses" (they overlapped, actually)
"a Jewish salesman" (half Jewish)
"Each of its eighteen chapters" (17 of the 18)
"His wandering one day into an English-language bookstore in Paris" (no)
"brief excerpt in 1932" (1929)
misspellings: Nausicaa, Aeolus, Eumaeus
"whose books were proscribed during his lifetime" (in Ireland, only Stephen Hero was ever censored)
"a Jewish advertising salesman" (half-Jewish)
"the gun blasts" (Gogarty's lie, almost certainly)
"the door of 7 Eccles Street" (probably wrong: cite)
"The Wandering Rocks episode of Ulysses begins here." (not Belvedere!)
"visits Bella Cohen's brothel in Tyrone Street" (just the hallucinated bells)
"Although Bloom probably never set foot inside the gates" (yes, for races)
"(Catholics were forbidden by their bishops to attend until fairly recent times)" (Catholic Gogarty blossomed there)
"cross Dublin without passing a pub on every corner" (on at least one corner!)
"in a Dublin boardinghouse" (hotel)
"leaving Dublin with Nora in 1905" (1904)
"an Irish Jew" (half Jewish)
"Finnegan's"
"Jewish advertisement canvasser"
James Joyce Glance - Top Biography
"After failing at business, Joyce tried his hands at various professions including politics and tax collecting." (father, not James)
"The Dubliners" (just 'Dubliners')
James Joyce Life - Top Biography
"memorize the long passages of verse and prose by Milton, Byron, Newman and others" (not at age 9!)
James Joyce Educational Life - Top Biography
"Literary and Historical Society.... paper on "Drama and Life"." (University College later, not Belvedere)
"began patronizing local prostitutes" (1898)
James Joyce Life - Top Biography
"the children were not born out of wedlock" (out-of-wedlock means illegitimate, so yes they were)
"nearly 27 years" (more than 27)
James Joyce Life - Top Biography
"By 1920, Lucia's schizophrenia had become apparent" (not until 1930s)
James Joyce Life - Top Biography
"The Dubliners"
James Joyce Works - Top Biography
"Joyce was also fined $100 for that" (publishers, not author)
"Jewish advertising canvasser... Jewish salesman" (half-Jewish)
"A single sentence runs in 40 odd pages, throughout the chapter, uninterrupted by full stops" (one period midway, another at end)
"where the previous novel had left him suffering the guilt of his mother's deathbed scene" (gap of two years)
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