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Homeric correspondences in James Joyce's Ulysses (overview)

"I took from the Odyssey the general outline, the 'plan' in the architectural sense, or maybe more exactly, the way the fable unfolds, and I followed it faithfully, down to the tiniest detail... Its construction is incomparable, and one must be a German ass to detect in it the work of several authors. It is a unique work, at once fairy tale and cosmos. Such a thing cannot be done a second time." --James Joyce

NEW: links labelled '[compare]' use JavaScript to load Homer into the top half of the window

NEW: This page has been trimmed down to the most interesting parallels only-- the full detail is on separate pages for Books 1 to 12 and 13 to 24

Joyce: # Telemachus - # Nestor - # Proteus
# Calypso - # Lotus-eaters - # Hades - # Eolus - # Lestrygonians
# Scylla & Charybdis - # S&C2 - # Wandering Rocks
# Cyclops - # Nausikaa - # Oxen of the Sun - # Circe
# Eumeus - # Ithaca - # Penelope

Homer: # I Telemachus - # II S&C2 - # III Nestor - # IV - # Proteus
# V Calypso - # VI Nausikaa - # VII - # VIII

# IX Cicones - # Lotus-eaters - # Cyclops
# X Eolus - # Lestrygonians - # Circe - # XI Hades
# XII Wandering Rocks - # Sirens - # Scylla & Charybdis - # Oxen of the Sun

# XIII Eumeus - # XIV - # XV - # XVI
# XVII Ithaca - # XVIII - # XIX - # XX
# XXI Penelope - # XXII - # XXIII - # XXIV

# Misc

To compare these notes with the Butcher-Lang text you can use this frames-page.

This long review painlessly surveys the state of (non-Joycean) Odyssey scholarship.

(The quote at the top of this page is from Potts' Portraits of the Artist in Exile, p158, recorded by Jan Parandowski.)

Correspondences from the Gorman schema [info]: "Stephen - Telemachus - Hamlet : Buck Mulligan - Antinous : Milkwoman - Mentor"

[Full detail]

Plot summary, day zero: invocation of Muse...

"andra moi ennepe mousa polutropon hos mala..."

1.001 "Tell me, Muse"

Joyce parallels Homer's "andra moi ennepe, mousa" with the Catholic Mass's opening words, "Introibo ad altare Dei" (I will go up to God's altar) spoken blasphemously by 'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan' as the second paragraph of Ulysses. [Telemachus]

1.001 "of that man, so ready at need"

Joyce doesn't introduce his Odysseus-- Leopold Bloom-- until ch4 [Calypso].

Butcher-Lang's take on Homer's "polutropon" (the polytropic man) is pretty feeble. Other translators ventured: skillful, ingenious, of many devices/ways/strategems/twists'n'turns, and never at a loss. Bloomsday will confront Leopold with many small challenges which he'll meet with effective modesty.

1.001 "who wandered far and wide"

Bloom's travels range over one square mile of Dublin, mostly: [map]

1.002 "after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy"

Joyce seems to have hidden a series of extremely subtle clues that Bloom suffered a 'Waterloo' in 1894 that shut down a promising career and an upwardly mobile social life [info]

cf also "On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at Ladysmith" [Circe] and "all is changed by woman's will since you slept horizontal in Sleepy Hollow your night of twenty years" [Circe]

1.003 "and many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt"

For Bloom, even being a simple advertising salesman involves projecting his imagination empathically into everyone he meets. (It might be interesting to check if Joyce has associated their different characters with Irish cities, counties, etc. He seems to be doing so on an international scale in Finnegans Wake, in his varying choice of source-languages for puns [eg Dutch].)

1.004 "and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the deep, striving to win his own life and the return of his company"

Bloom's primary 'company' are his adulterous wife Molly, his pert 15yo daughter Milly, and his dead son Rudy, all of whom cause frequent pangs all day. But cf also "several members of the company" [Ithaca] and "companions now in various manners in different places defunct" [Ithaca]

Day One plot summary: Poseidon has stranded Odysseus with Calypso

1.014 "Odysseus only... the lady nymph Calypso held"

Joyce's Calypso is the same as his Penelope-- Molly Bloom-- but her relationship with 'Poldy' has for the last decade been unsatifying for both of them.

1.015 "longing to have him for her lord"

(perhaps Molly's taste for B&D novels? [Calypso])

1.019 "all the gods had pity on him save Poseidon"

Joyce plays on 'Britannia rules the waves' to make Britain (and the visiting British tourist, Haines) into the "sea's ruler" [Telemachus]. Bloom's exile should probably be seen in terms of the fall of Parnell-- pre-1894 Bloom had been a Parnell-ite, but now keeps a British flag in his front room [Ithaca].

Day One summary (cont): the gods meet in Poseidon's absence

1.022 "Poseidon had now departed"

Bloom will have achieved some change of status with Molly by the end of the book, but how exactly this occurs is still a puzzle. Ideally, his 'Poseidon' should have been distracted in some way. [other riddles]

longshot: "The cabby read out of the paper he had got hold of that the former viceroy, earl Cadogan, had presided at the cabdrivers' association dinner in London somewhere... Sir Anthony MacDonnell had left Euston for the chief secretary's lodge" [Eumeus]

1.023 "for the distant Ethiopians... There he looked to receive his hecatomb"

Cf? ch12 discusses a Zulu chief visiting England "The delegation partook of luncheon" [Cyclops]

Day One summary (cont): the case of foolish Aegisthus is mentioned

1.036 "the son of Atreus"

Homer uses this story of the murder of Agamemnon by his wife and her lover as a recurring motif, a 'worst case' foreshadowing of what Odysseus may face. [Bulfinch]

Joyce's uses two analogous motifs. From Stephen's perspective it seems to be a replay of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", first cited in ch1 by Mulligan making light of Stephen's theorizing about the play, then quoted by Haines in a way that suggests Hamlet/Stephen is in danger of being driven mad by the ghost of his father/mother. [Telemachus]

For Bloom, the analog is Parnell, whom Joyce explicitly associates with Agamemnon in the schema for ch6 Hades. But Bloom's own worst-case fears (cf Atreus motif) sound more like Lear (or Roderick O'Conor) than King Hamlet or Parnell: "Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper" [Ithaca]

1.039 "the son of Atreus shall be avenged at the hand of Orestes"

Homer introduces this worst-case Telemachus-analog before Telemachus himself.

Joyce opens Ulysses by showing Stephen being haunted just as Agamemnon's son Orestes was by the Furies [cite] [more] by guilt over his dead mother: "The aunt thinks you killed your mother" [Telemachus] "No, mother. Let me be and let me live." [Telemachus]

Stephen will try to 'avenge' Shakespeare with the librarians in ch9

Day One summary (cont): Athena successfully pleads O's case to Zeus

1.051 [of Calypso] "daughter of the wizard Atlas, who... upholds the tall pillars which keep earth and sky asunder"

Since one of the pillars of Hercules (more accurately of Atlas [info]) was located at Gibraltar [info], Joyce locates Molly's childhood there [Calypso]

1.056 "with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of Ithaca"

maybe Molly's casual deceptions regarding Boylan? [Calypso]

1.059 "But Odysseus... hath a desire to die"

There's very subtle suicide-symbolism in ch17 as Bloom contemplates the evidence of Molly's adultery: "carbon monoxide" [Ithaca] "By decease" [Ithaca]

1.069 "anger for the Cyclops' sake"

Joyce may have inserted a Cyclops-equivalent trauma into Bloom's past history, but the main Cyclops Homeric-parallels won't be until ch12. (In that chapter, the narrator mentions how Joe Cuffe fired Bloom c1894 for "giving lip to a grazier" [Cyclops]. It would be eminently Joyce-like to mention the ten-years-earlier Cyclops analog within its corresponding chapter.)

Day One summary (cont): Athena suggests dispatching Hermes to Calypso and herself to Ithaca

1.084 "let us then speed Hermes the Messenger"

he'll make an ambiguous appearance in ch4 in the form of a letter from daughter Milly, personified "in slim sandals" [Calypso] (could Molly get a foreshadowing of Bloom's 'return' from the fact Milly sent him a letter, but her just a card?)

1.088 "his son"

Joyce recycles his nom-de-plume Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist [etext] for this character. But SD won't even meet Bloom until ch14 [Oxen]. (Telemachus hasn't seen Odysseus either, since he was 1yo.) And Stephen has his own living and present father Simon knocking around Dublin, but not offering much paternal inspiration.

1.089 "planting might in his heart"

The Linati schema (the earlier of two) explains that Stephen 'does not yet bear a body'. For his art to become mature, he must master this lesson.

1.090 "to call an assembly"

In Joyce's ch9 [Scylla] we'll see Stephen address a group of intellectuals in an office of the National Library. It may be that this central scene was originally to be part of Joyce's Telemachia (four opening chapters like Homer, instead of his eventual three).

1.092 "the wooers"

Stephen's mother has died a year earlier, so it's not her who's currently being wooed. Instead, it's Ireland's freedom being usurped by Britain and the Roman Church, and perhaps as well Shakespeare's artistic stature being usurped by those who misread Hamlet..

1.094 "tidings of his dear father's return"

For Stephen, this might be his artistic Muse's message of inspiration and enlightenment.

1.095 "so he may be had in good report among men"

Athena herself (as Mentes) tells Telemachus that his father is alive, but she also wants him to struggle and grow.

Day One summary (cont): Athena visits Telemachus in Ithaca, advises him to confront the suitors and then go to Nestor for news

1.097 "her lovely golden sandals that wax not old, and bare her alike over the wet sea and over the limitless land, swift as the breath of the wind"

From atop Mulligan's rented Tower, Stephen sees the bay as "spurned by lightshod hurrying feet" [Telemachus]

1.099 "her doughty spear, shod with sharp bronze, weighty and huge and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes"

In the schema, Joyce explains "Milkwoman = Mentor" ("a messenger from the secret morning" [Telemachus]) so perhaps this becomes the milkwoman's milkcan? [pic] [Telemachus]

1.105 "Mentes the captain of the Taphians"

(It's not clear whether Joyce also saw Mentes as the milkwoman, though.)

1.106 "there she found the lordly wooers"

For Joyce now just Mulligan and Haines.

1.107 "taking their pleasure at draughts in front of the doors"

Can it be coincidence that Mulligan asks Haines to open the door because of the smoke, just as the milkwoman is arriving? (ie, an English-only pun on 'draught') [Telemachus]

1.108 "sitting on hides of oxen... a goodly carven chair... a footstool... an inlaid seat"

A Homeric motif not much echoed by Joyce, who offers only chairs and an "upended valise" [Telemachus]

1.113 "Telemachus was far the first to descry her"

For Joyce it's Haines [Telemachus] (Although... we might be able to argue that when Stephen picked up Mulligan's shaving bowl he would have seen the milkwoman coming, but said nothing.)

1.114 "he was sitting with a heavy heart among the wooers dreaming on his good father"

His mother, rather [Telemachus]

1.124 "with us thou shalt be kindly entreated"

Mulligan offers her tea [Telemachus]

1.134 "overweening men"

Mulligan, in a word!

1.137 "poured it forth over a silver basin to wash withal"

cf "All Ireland is washed by the gulfstream, Stephen said as he let honey trickle over a slice of the loaf." [Telemachus]

1.141 "a carver lifted and placed by them platters of divers kinds of flesh"

cf "He hacked through the fry on the dish and slapped it out on three plates" [Telemachus]

1.150 "Now when the wooers had put from them the desire of meat and drink, they minded them of other things, even of the song and dance"

Mulligan sings tunelessly thruout the chapter, but especially as they leave the Tower. Stephen exaggerates this: "Three times a day, after meals" [Telemachus]

1.154 "Phemius, who was minstrel to the wooers despite his will"

Mulligan may be singing Stephen's setting of a Yeats poem, though this possibility is never broached in the text [Telemachus]

1.156 "holding his head close to her that those others might not hear"

cf "Buck Mulligan bent across to Stephen" [Telemachus]

1.161 "that man whose white bones, it may be, lie wasting in the rain upon the mainland, or the billow rolls them in the brine"

cf "The man that was drowned." [Telemachus]

1.183 "the wine-dark sea"

Joyce has Mulligan quote the Greek "Epi oinopa ponton" [Telemachus]

1.215 "My mother verily saith that I am his; for myself I know not, for never man yet knew of himself his own descent."

cf? Stephen on belief in god: "You behold in me... a horrible example of free thought" [Telemachus]

1.217 "O that I had been the son of some blessed man, whom old age overtook among his own possessions!"

Joyce's schema identifies the theme of ch1 as "The dispossessed son in struggle"

1.225 "What feast, nay, what rout is this?"

cf Mulligan "What sort of a kip is this?" [Telemachus]

1.234 "the gods willed it otherwise, in evil purpose, who have made him pass utterly out of sight as no man ever before"

cf gnostic demiurges?

1.255 "If he could but come now and stand at the entering in of the gate, with helmet and shield and lances twain, as mighty a man as when first I marked him in our house drinking and making merry"

cf??? the very end of Finnegans Wake: "If I seen him bearing down on me now under whitespread wings like he'd come from Arkangels, I sink I'd die down over his feet, humbly dumbly, only to washup." [etext]

1.260 "thither had Odysseus gone on his swift ship to seek a deadly drug, that he might have wherewithal to smear his bronze-shod arrows: but Ilus would in nowise give it to him, for he had in awe the everliving gods. But my father gave it him"

1.269 "mark and take heed unto my words"

cf? "Mark this farther and remember." [Oxen]

1.272 "call the Achaean lords to the assembly"

cf ch 9? [Scylla]

1.273 "bid them scatter"

In what sense does SD attempt to scatter his audience in ch9?

cf? SD picturing the Church scattering the heretics: "A horde of heresies fleeing" [Telemachus]

1.281 "go to inquire concerning thy father that is long afar"

cf SD on facticity: "it was in some way if not as memory fabled it" [Nestor]

1.297 "for thou shouldst not carry childish thoughts"

cf SD's self-criticism: "Hear, hear. Prolonged applause. Zut! Nom de Dieu!" [Telemachus]

1.302 "be valiant, that even men unborn may praise thee"

cf? "Am I walking into eternity" [Proteus]

1.310 "after thou hast bathed... thou mayest wend to the ship"

cf "The Ship, Buck Mulligan cried. Half twelve." [Telemachus]

1.319 "like an eagle of the sea she flew away"

cf Mulligan "fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly" [Telemachus]

1.329 "from her upper chamber the daughter of Icarius, wise Penelope, caught the glorious strain, and she went down the high stairs from her chamber"

cf SD remembering May; "Her door was open: she wanted to hear my music." [Telemachus]

Day One summary (cont): Penelope asks the singer to sing a different song but T contradicts her; T confronts the suitors; Eurycleia tucks him in

Other summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Newfoundland - Virtual - UMass - Temple - Johnson - Kennesaw - Lamb - Spark - [bio of Telemachus] - [Athena]

If Joyce originally intended Book II to be the Library discussion of Hamlet, we can read Stephen as trying to convince the librarians/Ithacans that Shakespeare/Odysseus was cuckolded by his brothers/suitors.

But when he moved it, he should have added parallels in ch1 and maybe the new ch2 (Stephen addressing the schoolboys), so we need to examine all three chapters (1, 2, and 9).

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Day two summary: T has Achaeans summoned to assembly (suitors plus their innocent fathers)

2.003 "put on his raiment and cast his sharp sword about his shoulder, and beneath his smooth feet he bound his goodly sandals"

cf? "Stephen looked on his hat, his stick, his boots" [Scylla]

2.008 "the long-haired Achaeans"

cf? "the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak" [Telemachus]

cf? (eg) "rufous skull... face, bearded" [Scylla]

2.011 "two swift hounds bare him company"

all I can picture here are BM's boots on SD's feet

2.014 "he sat him in his father's seat and the elders gave place to him"

cf Deasy putting SD in charge of the class?

2.015 "lord Aegyptus spake among them first; bowed was he with age"

cf? Nestor in Book III/ch2

cf? "the quaker librarian purred" [Scylla]

Day two summary (cont): T speaks and weeps

2.038 "he stood... and the herald... placed the staff in his hands"

cf? BM and/or Haines to SD: "I told him your symbol of Irish art... I intend to make a collection of your sayings... What is your idea of Hamlet?"

cf? "We want to hear more, John Eglinton decided with Mr Best's approval." [Scylla]

2. "Old man, he is not far off"

cf? BM re telegram: "Where did you launch it from? The kips? No. College Green."

2.045 "evil hath befallen my house, a double woe"

(WS in London, plus uncle(s) usurping?) cf "I am the murdered father: your mother is the guilty queen. Ann Shakespeare, born Hathaway" [Scylla]

2. "First, I have lost my noble sire, who sometime was king among you here, and was gentle as a father"

cf "He is a ghost, a shadow now, the wind by Elsinore's rocks or what you will, the sea's voice, a voice heard only in the heart of him who is the substance of his shadow, the son consubstantial with the father."

2.050 "wooers beset"

cf? "I understand you to suggest there was misconduct with one of the brothers" [Scylla]

2.061 "I am nowise strong"

cf "I'm not a hero"

cf? "I am tired of my voice" [Scylla]

2.063 "deeds past sufferance"

cf "of the offence to me"

2.074 "Better for me that ye yourselves should eat up my treasures"

cf? "For them too history was a tale like any other too often heard, their land a pawnshop"

cf "The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done."

2.080 "So spake he in wrath, and dashed the staff to the ground, and brake forth in tears; and pity fell on all the people"

cf "anxiety"

cf? "I wept alone" [Scylla]

Day two summary (cont): Antinous blames Penelope

2. "but Antinous alone made answer"

cf "Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?"

2.088 "the fault is... in thine own mother, for she is the craftiest of women"

cf? history is to blame"

cf "A woman brought sin into the world."

cf? "The world believes that Shakespeare made a mistake" [Scylla]

2.113 "Send away thy mother"

cf? "No, mother! Let me be and let me live." cf? "play them"

2.118 "Such wiles as hers we have never yet heard that any even of the women of old did know"

cf "If others have their will Ann hath a way. By cock, she was to blame." [Scylla]

Day two summary (cont): T answers

2.130 "I may in no wise thrust forth from the house, against her will, the woman that bare me, that reared me"

cf "She saw him into and out of the world. She took his first embraces. She bore his children and she laid pennies on his eyes to keep his eyelids closed when he lay on his deathbed." [Scylla]

cf "Yet someone had loved him, borne him in her arms and in her heart. But for her the race of the world would have trampled him underfoot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life? His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been." [Nestor]

Day two summary (cont): Zeus sends eagles as omen; Halitherses interprets it as O's revenge

2. "two eagles in flight"

cf "Two strong shrill whistles answered"

Day two summary (cont): Eurymachus supports Antinous

2. "Now as for Odysseus, he hath perished far away"

cf "Shakespeare? he said. I seem to know the name."

2.207 "the prize of her perfection"

cf "Hortensio calls her young and beautiful" [Scylla]

Day two summary (cont): T asks for ship, Mentor supports T; Athena as Mentor tells T how to prepare for the trip; the suitors mock T; T tells Eurycleia what he needs; A as Mentor arranges the ship and crew; the ship sets sail at night

2. "Hear me, thou who yesterday didst come in thy godhead to our house"

cf? "Ignatius Loyola, make haste to help me!"

2. "the good nurse Eurycleia wailed aloud"

cf BM on Aquinas: "There he keened... It's destroyed we are"

2. "poured drink offering to the deathless gods"

cf "Laud we the gods"

Summaries: UMass - Temple - Lamb - MythWeb - Spark - Newfoundland - Virtual - UMass - Johnson - Kennesaw - shortest - MythWeb

Correspondences: "Deasy : Nestor : Pisistratus . Sargent : Helen : Mrs O'Shea"

Day three: T&A arrive at Nestor's; she gives him courage; Pisistratus invites them to feast without knowing who they are; T explains himself to N; N mourns his dead and fills in post-Iliad fates of various Greeks; Menelaus may know something, so T must track him down; N invites T&A to spend the night but A flies off; N opens a bottle of his best for T

Day four: N arranges a special sacrifice to Athena; T&P set off for Sparta by chariot; overnight at Alpheus's

Day five: more driving

Summaries: Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

Correspondences: "Proteus - Primal Matter : Kevin Egan - Menelaus : Megapenthus : the Cocklepicker"

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Day five: they arrive at dusk; Menelaus is hosting a double-wedding feast; welcomes T&P; speaks of his time since Troy and mentions O; T weeps, Helen recognises him, slips everybody a tranquiliser, reminisces about Troy and O's disguise as beggar; M tells of the Trojan horse

4. "drave to the dwelling of renowned Menelaus"

cf "In gay Paree he hides, Egan of Paris, unsought by any save by me" proteus

4. "a feast for the wedding of his noble son and daughter"

cf? "About us gobblers fork spiced beans down their gullets" [Proteus]

4. "his well-beloved son, strong Megapenthes, born of a slave woman"

cf? "She is quite nicey comfy without her outcast man... Tell Pat you saw me, won't you? I wanted to get poor Pat a job one time." [Proteus]

4. "the shepherd of the people"

cf "good shepherd of men" [Proteus]

4. "there was a gleam as it were of sun or moon through the lofty palace of renowned Menelaus"

cf? "the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d'Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone" [Proteus]

4. "they went to the polished baths and bathed them. Now when the maidens had bathed them and anointed them with olive oil"

cf "The froeken, bonne à tout faire, who rubs male nakedness in the bath at Upsala. Moi faire, she said, tous les messieurs." [Proteus]

4. "a handmaid bare water for the hands in a goodly golden ewer"

cf "the kerchiefed housewife is astir, a saucer of acetic acid in her hands" [Proteus]

4. "the blood of your parents is not lost in you, but ye are of the line of men that are sceptred kings, the fosterlings of Zeus; for no churls could beget sons like you"

cf "You're your father's son. I know the voice" [Proteus]

4. "Telemachus spake to the son of Nestor, holding his head close to him, that those others might not hear"

cf? "Faut pas le dire a mon pere. " [Proteus]

4. "that those men were yet safe, who perished of old in the wide land of Troy"

cf? "Of Ireland, the Dalcassians, of hopes, conspiracies, of Arthur Griffith now, AE pimander, good shepherd of men. To yoke me as his yokefellow, our crimes our common cause." [Proteus]

4. "Helen came forth from her fragrant vaulted chamber"

cf? "She is quite nicey comfy without her outcast man, madame in rue Gît-le-Coeur, canary and two buck lodgers. Peachy cheeks, a zebra skirt, frisky as a young thing's. Spurned and undespairing." [Proteus]

4. "Now I too, lady, mark the likeness even as thou tracest it"

cf "You're your father's son. I know the voice" [Proteus]

4. "For a son hath many griefs in his halls when his father is away, if perchance he hath none to stand by him."

cf? "Moi, je suis socialiste. Je ne crois pas en l'existence de Dieu." [Proteus]

Proteus:

4. "she met me wandering alone apart from my company, who were ever roaming round the isle, fishing with bent hooks, for hunger was gnawing at their belly"

cf "from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers' knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat" [Proteus]

Murray

Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

Correspondences: "Calypso - The Nymph. Dlugacz : The Recall : Zion : Ithaca"

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Days seven to thirtyone

5. "Straightway he bound beneath his feet his lovely golden sandals, that wax not old, that bare him alike over the wet sea and over the limitless land, swift as the breath of the wind."

cf "Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley Road, swiftly, in slim sandals, along the brightening footpath. Runs, she runs to meet me, a girl with gold hair on the wind." [Calypso]

5. "on the hearth there was a great fire burning, and from afar through the isle was smelt the fragrance of cleft cedar blazing, and of sandal wood"

cf "The coals were reddening... Rather stale smell that incense leaves next day" [Calypso]

5. "the nymph within was singing with a sweet voice as she fared to and fro before the loom, and wove with a shuttle of gold"

cf "What are you singing?" [Calypso]

5. "round about the cave there was a wood blossoming, alder and poplar and sweet-smelling cypress. And therein roosted birds long of wing, owls and falcons and chattering sea-crows, which have their business in the waters. And lo, there about the hollow cave trailed a gadding garden vine, all rich with clusters."

cf "He bent down to regard a lean file of spearmint growing by the wall. Make a summerhouse here. Scarlet runners. Virginia creepers. Want to manure the whole place over, scabby soil. A coat of liver of sulphur. All soil like that without dung. Household slops. Loam, what is this that is? The hens in the next garden: their droppings are very good top dressing. Best of all though are the cattle, especially when they are fed on those oilcakes. Mulch of dung. Best thing to clean ladies' kid gloves. Dirty cleans. Ashes too. Reclaim the whole place. Grow peas in that corner there. Lettuce. Always have fresh greens then." [Calypso]

5. "the goddess spread a table with ambrosia"

cf "Bread and butter, four, sugar, spoon, her cream." [Calypso]

5. "he sat him down upon the chair whence Hermes had arisen"

cf "He sat down, cut and buttered a slice of the loaf." [Calypso]

5. "wise Penelope is meaner to look upon than thou, in comeliness and stature"

cf "Not unlike her with her hair down: slimmer." [Calypso]

Day eight to ten

5. "Odysseus put on him a mantle and doublet"

cf? "Then he girded up his trousers, braced and buttoned himself." [Calypso]

5. "the nymph clad her in a great shining robe, light of woof and gracious, and about her waist she cast a fair golden girdle, and a veil withal upon her head"

cf? "her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat's udder" [Calypso]

5. "he roused all storms of all manner of winds, and shrouded in clouds the land and sea"

cf "A cloud began to cover the sun slowly, wholly. Grey. Far. " [Calypso]

5. "now is utter doom assured me"

cf "Desolation. Grey horror seared his flesh." [Calypso]

5. "Yet even so forgat he not his raft, for all his wretched plight, but made a spring after it in the waves, and clutched it to him, and sat in the midst thereof, avoiding the issues of death"

cf "Must begin again those Sandow's exercises. On the hands down. Blotchy brown brick houses. Number eighty still unlet. Why is that?" [Calypso]

5. "Now the South would toss it to the North to carry, and now again the East would yield it to the West to chase"

cf [Calypso]

5. "the daughter of Cadmus marked him, Ino of the fair ankles, Leucothea... she rose, like a sea-gull on the wing, from the depth of the mere, and sat upon the well-bound raft and spake"

cf "Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley Road, swiftly, in slim sandals, along the brightening footpath. Runs, she runs to meet me, a girl with gold hair on the wind.' [Calypso]

5. "Cast off these garments, and leave the raft... take this veil imperishable and wind it about thy breast; so is there no fear that thou suffer aught or perish"

cf Milly's letter??? [Calypso]

5. "at last the knees of Odysseus were loosened and his heart melted, and in heaviness he spake"

cf? "Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read" [Calypso]

Summaries: Bulfinch's - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - Auburn - psychology - ditto - map - [essay] - song - myth

Correspondences: "Phaecia - Star of the Sea : Gerty - Nausikaa"

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6. "near the Cyclopes they dwelt"

cf? "grandpapa Giltrap's lovely dog Garryowen" [Nausikaa]

6. "he drew a wall around the town, and builded houses and made temples for the gods and meted out their fields"

cf? seawall, church

6. "wherein was sleeping a maiden like to the gods in form and comeliness"

cf "Gerty MacDowell... lost in thought... pronounced beautiful... her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect." [Nausikaa]

6. "Beside her on either hand of the pillars of the door were two handmaids"

cf "Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions" [Nausikaa]

6. "truly thou art not long to be a maiden"

cf? "The very heart of the girlwoman went out to him, her dreamhusband, because she knew on the instant it was him." [Nausikaa]

6. "furnish thee with mules and a wain to carry the men's raiment... a high waggon with strong wheels"

cf? "Edy with the pushcar with baby Boardman in it" [Nausikaa]

6. "Olympus, where, as they say, is the seat of the gods that standeth fast for ever. Not by winds is it shaken, nor ever wet with rain, nor doth the snow come nigh thereto, but most clear air is spread about it cloudless, and the white light floats over it"

cf? "the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth, guarding as ever the waters of the bay" [Nausikaa]

6. "who straightway marvelled on the dream"

cf "Here was that of which she had so often dreamed." [Nausikaa]

6. "her father she met as he was going forth to the renowned kings in their council"

cf "he couldn't even go to the funeral on account of the gout and she had to go into town to bring him the letters and samples from his office about Catesby's cork lino" [Nausikaa]

6. "her mother gave her soft olive oil also in a golden cruse, that she and her maidens might anoint themselves after the bath"

cf? "a piece of cottonwool scented with her favourite perfume" [Nausikaa]

6. "they fell to playing at ball"

cf "building castles as children do, or playing with their big coloured ball" [Nausikaa]

6. "So then the princess threw the ball at one of her company; she missed the girl, and cast the ball into the deep eddying current, whereat they all raised a piercing cry. Then the goodly Odysseus awoke and sat up, pondering in his heart and spirit"

cf "poor Tommy was not slow to voice his dismay but luckily the gentleman in black who was sitting there by himself came gallantly to the rescue and intercepted the ball" [Nausikaa]

6. "having broken with his strong hand a leafy bough from the thick wood, to hold athwart his body, that it might hide his nakedness withal"

cf? "she could see him take his hand out of his pocket, getting nervous, and beginning to play with his watchchain" [Nausikaa]

6. "he was terrible in their eyes, being marred with the salt sea foam, and they fled cowering"

cf? "And they all ran down the strand to see over the houses and the church, helterskelter" [Nausikaa]

6. "the daughter of Alcinous alone stood firm"

cf "Gerty was adamant... she could sit" [Nausikaa]

6. "Odysseus considered whether he should clasp the knees of the lovely maiden"

cf "Suppose I spoke to her. What about?" [Nausikaa]

6. "I supplicate thee, O queen, whether thou art a goddess or a mortal!"

cf "His dark eyes fixed themselves on her again, drinking in her every contour, literally worshipping at her shrine." [Nausikaa]

6. "thrice blessed are thy father and thy lady mother, and thrice blessed thy brethren. Surely their souls ever glow with gladness for thy sake"

cf "A sterling good daughter was Gerty just like a second mother in the house, a ministering angel too with a little heart worth its weight in gold." [Nausikaa]

6. "he is of heart the most blessed beyond all other who shall prevail with gifts of wooing, and lead thee to his home"

cf? "And, Mrs Breen and Mrs Dignam once like that too, marriageable." [Nausikaa]

6. "all that time continually the wave bare me"

"Hanging on to a plank or astride of a beam for grim life" [Nausikaa]

6. "And now some god has cast me on this shore"

cf "Blown in from the bay" [Nausikaa]

6. "Nausicaa of the white arms"

cf "her own arms that were white and soft" [Nausikaa]

6. "this man is some helpless one come hither in his wanderings, whom now we must kindly entreat"

cf "If he had suffered, more sinned against than sinning, or even, even, if he had been himself a sinner, a wicked man, she cared not." [Nausikaa]

6. "in your sight I will not bathe, for I am ashamed to make me naked in the company of fair-tressed maidens"

cf "Same time might prefer a tie undone or something. Trousers? Suppose I when I was? No. Gently does it." [Nausikaa]

6. "Athene, the daughter of Zeus, made him greater and more mighty to behold, and from his head caused deep curling locks to flow, like the hyacinth flower"

cf? "Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease plastery hair, lovelock over his dexter optic." [Nausikaa]

6. "Then to the shore of the sea went Odysseus apart, and sat down"

cf "the gentleman in black who was sitting there by himself" [Nausikaa]

6. "Their ungracious speech it is that I would avoid, lest some man afterward rebuke me, and there are but too many insolent folk among the people."

cf "Irritable little gnat she was and always would be and that was why no-one could get on with her, poking her nose into what was no concern of hers." [Nausikaa]

6. "Better so, if herself she has ranged abroad and found a lord from a strange land"

cf "She could see at once by his dark eyes and his pale intellectual face that he was a foreigner" [Nausikaa]

Summaries: Lamb - Apollodorus? - Bulfinch - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Torino - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - map

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7. "even so are the women the most cunning at the loom"

cf "She did it up all by herself" [Nausikaa]

7. "he found the captains and the counsellors of the Phaeacians pouring forth wine to the keen-sighted god"

cf? eg "Canon O'Hanlon got up again and censed the Blessed Sacrament" [Nausikaa]

7. "nor is it fitting that the stranger should sit upon the ground in the ashes by the hearth"

cf "Might get piles myself." [Nausikaa]

7. "Now that the feast is over, go ye home and lie down to rest"

cf "the sandman was on his way for Master Boardman junior" [Nausikaa]

7. "thereafter he shall endure such things as Fate and the stern spinning women drew off the spindles for him at his birth"

cf "Fate that is. He, not me." [Nausikaa]

7. "Ah, and may life leave me when I have had sight of mine own possessions, my thralls, and my dwelling that is great and high!"

cf? "Twenty years asleep in Sleepy Hollow. All changed. Forgotten. The young are old. His gun rusty from the dew." [Nausikaa]

7. "So they went from the hall with torch in hand."

cf? "soon the lamplighter would be going his rounds" [Nausikaa]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Day thirtythree

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Still day thirtythree

Summaries: Apollodorus - Auburn - Temple - Spark

Lotus-eaters: Lamb

Correspondences: "Lotuseaters : Cabhorses, Communicants, Soldiers, Eunuchs, Bather, Watchers of Cricket"

Summaries: Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - questions

Cyclops: Murray - Lamb

Correspondences: "Noman - I : Stake - cigar : challenge - apotheosis"

Apollodorus - Hooker's translation - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - pic - pic - questions - game - myth

Correspondences: "Crawford - Eolus : Incest - journalism : Floating Island - press"

Still day thirtythree

Summaries: UMass - Temple - Lamb - Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - Auburn - map - questions - winds

Lestrygonians: Murray - Butcher-Lang - Lamb

Correspondences: "Antiphates - Hunger : The Decoy : Food : Lestrygonians : Teeth"

Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map

Circe: Murray - Butcher-Lang - Lamb

Correspondences: "Circe - Bella : "

This section is extraordinary because some 20 notes survive on a Circe notesheet [info] that were clearly jotted while JAJ was rereading Butcher-Lang, starting at 10.167 (see below)... and almost all of them are exxed out to indicate he found a place for them. (Our challenge is to try to figure out where! [500k try]) Many more notes survive for the Nostos (see below). These were traced to Butcher-Lang by Philip Herring. [Bibliofind]

[Full detail]

[compare]

10.140 "we put in with our ship into the sheltering haven silently"

cf? "the swancomb of the gondola, highreared, forges on through the murk" [Circe]

10.148 "I went up a craggy hill, a place of out-look, and I saw the smoke rising from the broad-wayed earth in the halls of Circe, through the thick coppice and the woodland. Then I mused in my mind and heart whether I should go and make discovery, for that I had seen the smoke and flame."

"He stands at Cormack's corner watching... Big blaze" [Circe]

10.155 "give my company their midday meal"

"cramming bread and chocolate into a side pocket... a lukewarm pig's crubeen... a cold sheep's trotter" [Circe]

10.167 "I broke withies and willow twigs, and wove me a rope a fathom in length, well twisted from end to end, and bound together the feet of the huge beast, and went to the black ship bearing him across my neck, and leaning on a spear"

Joyce's note, exxed in red: Circe2:31 "Ul. carries shot stag with sugaun + spear" (sugaun = rope of twisted straw in Irish)

cf? "In each hand he holds a parcel, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the other a cold sheep's trotter sprinkled with wholepepper." [Circe]

10.179 "They unmuffled their heads, and... gazed at the stag... and got ready the glorious feast"

Circe2:32 "crew lie with muffled heads, they feast" exxed blue (heads muffled with cloaks = stress, sorrow, despair; uncovered for feast)

cf "A form sprawled against a dustbin and muffled by its arm and hat moves, groans, grinding growling teeth, and snores again." [Circe]

10.203 "I numbered my goodly-greaved company in two bands, and appointed a leader for each, and I myself took the command of the one part, and godlike Eurylochus of the other. And anon we shook the lots in a brazen-fitted helmet, and out leapt the lot of proud Eurylochus. So he went on his way, and with him two and twenty of my fellowship all weeping; and we were left behind making lament"

Circe2:33 "1/2 Ul. 1/2 Euryl. 22 each (mother in law fight)" 1st half exxed blue; Circe2:34 "drew lots in helmet" exxed blue

cf? Stephen and Lynch arriving first, and so cf?? drawing lots: "Nice mixup. Scene at Westland row. Then jump in first class with third ticket. Then too far." [Circe] (train = helmet; people = lots)

10.212 "all around the palace mountain-bred wolves and lions were roaming"

Circe2:39 "lions + wolves" blue. This gets generalised to all animals, but specifically eg: "spaniel... lynx... drunk as dog... lion of the night... dogs him... doggedly... Leopardstown... Foxrock... liontamer" etc

10.221 "within they heard Circe singing in a sweet voice"

Circe2:35 "Circe sings" blue cf "Cissy Caffrey's voice, still young, sings shrill from a lane" [Circe]

10.222 "she fared to and fro before the great web imperishable, such as is the handiwork of goddesses, fine of woof and full of grace and splendour"

Circe2:40 "Circe's web" blue. This needs to be a deep symbol, with parallels to Penelope's weaving. Joyce wrote in a letter "[Circe's] web is so vast and of such intricate zoological design that I suppose it must be hard to follow in such a typescript."

One direction we might anticipate is a web of ESP that detects Bloom's approach-- cf? "her luck's turned today" [Circe]

10.224 "Polites, a leader of men, the dearest to me and the trustiest of all my company"

Circe2:37 "Polites. Ul. Favourite" blue. He foolishly, trustingly draws Circe's attention, so it seems he must be Stephen. cf? "With exaggerated politeness" [Circe]

10.233 "she led them in and set them upon chairs and high seats"

Circe2:43 "chairs" unexxed. cf? "sits perched on the edge of the table" [Circe]

10.234 "made them a mess of cheese and barley-meal and yellow honey with Pramnian wine, and mixed harmful drugs with the food to make them utterly forget their own country"

Circe2:44 "cheese, barley, wine ?seed honey" blue. cf? Virag's "Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg" [Circe] or cf? "the favourite, honey cap, green jacket, orange sleeves, Garrett Deasy up... dancing coins of carrots, barley, onions, turnips, potatoes." [Circe] cf also? Rudolph to LB: "who left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers" [Circe]

10.238 "presently she smote them with a wand"

Circe2:45 "smitten with wand" red. cf Bella/Bello's fan: "He taps her on the shoulder with his fan" [Circe] Lynch's poker is also described as a wand [Circe]

[compare]

10.277 "then did Hermes, of the golden wand, meet me as I approached the house"

cf Bloom's vision of his father, Rudolph Bloom "A stooped bearded figure appears garbed in the long caftan of an elder in Zion and a smokingcap with magenta tassels" [Circe]

But as Bloom enters Nighttown (crossing Circe's web/veil) a whole series of Hermeses appear: shouting urchins, cyclists' bells, sandstrewer motorman, sinister figure with mercury, ragsackman, Caffrey twins, Rudolph, Ellen, Molly-Marion, Gerty, and Josie.

Perhaps the most important is Zoe, who drops the clue that lets LB control Bella. Zoe: "her son in Oxford" [Circe] LB: "your own son in Oxford" [Circe]

10.284 "methinks, thou thyself shalt never return but remain there with the others"

cf? "I told you not go with drunken goy ever. So you catch no money." [Circe]

10.292 "this charmed herb that I shall give thee"

cf "a shrivelled potato" [Circe]

10.299 "command her to swear a mighty oath by the blessed gods, that she will plan nought else of mischief to thine own hurt, lest she make thee a dastard and unmanned, when she hath thee naked"

Circe2:48 "Circe's oath lest she castrate" blue. cf Bloom to Bello: "Fair play, madam. No pruning knife." [Circe]

10.304 "Moly the gods call it"

Joyce's notes and comments on Moly are extensive:

1918 A5.18 "Circe's brew  kykeon  moly" blue
1918 A5.19 "Moly - mlh (Heb) = Sel" blue
1918 A5.19 "atriplex halimus  porpier de mer  salad with vinegar
            milky yellow flower" unexxed <- Berard II.288
 
Circe 3:110 "Homebrew.  Moly." blue.  makes impotent?
Circe 3:121 "Moly (mlh - salt)" unexxed  (after Berard)
Circe 2:49 "Moly hard to dig" blue
Circe 2:03 "Moly - circumcis." blue.  reduces sex drive
Circe 7:110 "charm = Moly (narrow shave)" blue.  lucky escapes danger
Circe 10:26 "Moly - indifference" blue.  ...due to masturbation
Circe 10:27 "Moly - beauty" blue.  elevates one above lust?
Circe 10:28 "Moly - laughter" blue.  deflates lust
Circe 10:29 "Moly - satire" blue.  ditto
Circe 10:30 "Moly - pessimism" blue.  emphasizing negative consequences
Circe 12:32 "Moly = escape from prison" blue.  cf 'narrow shave'
Circe 12:36 "Moly = conscience" blue. outweighing lust 
Circe 21:35 "Moly = absinthe, mercury," blue.  reducing lust, curing pox
Circe 21:50 "Moly = chastity" unexxed

Ellmann (p496) misreads indifference as 'inexperience' and narrow shave as 'narrow shoes'

JAJ to Helen Nutting, undated: "Think of that symbolism: a white flower with a black root. Other flowers are tinctured all through with their colour, but this alone of all flowers has a black root with a white flower." E496

?Sept 1920 to FB: "As regards 'moly' it can be chance, also laughter, the enchantment killer. The knock out blow delivered at end brings all things back to their sordid reality." L1-144

29 Sept to FB: "Moly is the gift of Hermes, god of public ways, and is the invisible influence (prayer, chance, agility, presence of mind, power of recuperation) which saves in case of accident. This would cover immunity from syphilis... Hermes is the god of signposts: i.e. he is, specially for a traveller like Ulysses, the point at which roads parallel merge and roads contrary also. He is an accident of providence. In this special case his plant may be said to have many leaves, indifference due to masturbation, pessimism congenital, a sense of the ridiculous, sudden fastidiousness in some detail, experience. It is the only occasion on which Ulysses is not helped by Minerva but by her male counterpart or inferior." SL272, L1-147

to FB 24 Oct 1920: "Moly could also be absinthe the cerebral impotentising drink or chastity." SL273, L1-149

Budgen JJMU230: potato-talisman, fatherhood

Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - ditto - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - pic - questions - fansite - moly - myth - poncy book review

Correspondences: "Dodder, Grand and Royal Canals, Liffey - The 4 Rivers : Cunningham - Sisyphus : Father Coffey - Cerberus : Caretaker - Hades - Daniel O'Connell - Hercules : Dignam - Elpenor : Parnell : Agamemnon : Mentor : Ajax"

Still day thirtythree

Summaries: Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - Spark - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - questions - terminology - myth - ditto - ditto - pix

Still day thirtythree

Summaries: UMass - Temple - Spark

Wandering Rocks

Correspondences: "Bosphorus - Liffey : European bank - Viceroy : Asiatic bank - Conmee : Symplegades : Groups of citizens"

comparison - Wandering Rocks entry in Perseus encyclopedia

Sirens: Murray - Lamb

Correspondences: "Sirens - barmaids : Isle - bar"

Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - pic - questions - fanpage - Kafka - myth

Scylla & Charybdis: Murray - Lamb

Correspondences: "The Rock - Aristotle, Dogma, Stratford : The whirlpool : Plato, Mysticism, London : Ulysses : Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare"

Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - Auburn - map - questions - myth - pic

Oxen of the Sun: Murray - Lamb

Correspondences: "Hospital - Trinacria : Lampetie, Phaethusa - Nurses : Helios - Horne : Oxen - Fertility : Crime - Fraud"

Apollodorus - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - shortest - MythWeb - map - myth - myth

Day 33 (cont): O skips retelling Calypso

Correspondences: "Eumeus - Skin the Goat : Sailor - Ulysses Pseudangelos : Melanthius - Corly [Corley]"

Abbrev's: DBM = DB Murphy (WB in most editions)

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Day 33 summary (cont): Alcinous breaks the silence by calling for gifts for the hero.

Day 34: The Phaecians bring gifts the next morning, and Alcinous packs them himself, and throws a feast, but O is impatient and distracted. O's parting toast, falls asleep on ship, quick passage, arriving at Ithaca before dawn.

Day 35: Phaecians tiptoe off leaving O asleep with treasure (cf giving someone a ride home in the city at night and always always always waiting to make sure they get safely into the building!)

[compare]

13.101 "within, the decked ships ride unmoored"

Eum6:154 "Ul. ship in harbour not moored" unexxed. cf? "beyond the swing chain, a horse, dragging a sweeper" [Eumeus]

13.118 "as he was in the sheet of linen and the bright rug"

? Eum6:197 "his martial cloak around him" unexxed. cf? LB's offer to SD: "plus the use of a rug or two and overcoat doubled into a pillow" [Eumeus]

Day 35: (cont): Poseidon feels spiteful that the Phaecians have been so kind to O, and Zeus allows him to petrify one of their ships, and overshadow their city with a mountain; Alcinous recognises that an old prophecy is being fulfilled and propitiates Poseidon

13.157 "smite her into a stone hard by the land; a stone in the likeness of a swift ship"

Eum6:198 "Daunt's rock petrified ship" slate. cf chat of customers: "they drifted on to the wreck of Daunt's rock... petrified" [Eumeus]

13.180 "Cease ye from the convoy of mortals"

Eum6:199 "Ph cease to convoy" slate. cf? "there was not a sign of a Jehu plying for hire anywhere to be seen" [Eumeus]

Day 35: (cont): O awakes and panics because he doesn't recognise Ithaca, curses Phaecians

13.195 "Wherefore each thing showed strange"

cf LB seeing horse: "it seemed new, a different grouping of bones and even flesh" [Eumeus]

[compare]

13.200 "Yea, where am I wandering myself?"

Eum6:200 "Ul. loses way in maze" blue. cf? "And the coming back was the worst thing you ever did because it went without saying you would feel out of place as things always moved with the times." [Eumeus]

13.337 "till thou hast furthermore made trial of thy wife"

Eum6:204 "Ul. wants to try wife first" slate. cf? "Judge of his astonishment when he finally did breast the tape and the awful truth dawned upon him anent his better half, wrecked in his affections." [Eumeus]

13.354 "he kissed the earth"

Eum6:206 "Ul. recognizes Ithaca Kisses earth, shamrock clod" unexxed. cf "He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump" [Ithaca]

13.363 "let us straightway set thy goods in the secret place of the wondrous cave"

Eum6:207 "Pallas + Ul. hide treasure" unexxed. cf? Bello to LB: "They will violate the secrets of your bottom drawer" [Circe]

[compare]

13.377 "wooers, who now these three years lord it through thy halls"

Eum6:208 "suitors 3 years round Pen" unexxed. cf? "that I was to be married to him in 3 years time" [Penelope] and cf? "there's a man of brawn in possession there" [Circe]

13.418 "that he too may wander in sorrow over the unharvested seas"

Eum6:110 "Ul. upbraids Pallas sending off Telem. (didn't want son go to sea)" blue. cf DBM: "There's my son now, Danny, run off to sea and his mother got him took in a draper's in Cork where he could be drawing easy money." [Eumeus]

Summaries: UMass - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

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Still day thirtyfive

[compare]

14.007 "a great court it was and a fair"

Eum6:112 "Eum. built a ?nice house" unexxed. cf "an unpretentious wooden structure" [Eumeus]

14.017 "the boars slept without.... And by them always slept four dogs"

Eum6:113 "boars outside: 4 dogs" unexxed. cf? Gumley "having a quiet forty winks" [Eumeus]

14.023 "he was fitting sandals to his feet, cutting a good brown oxhide"

? Eum6:114 "taking off his boot that he bought" slate. cf "intensely occupied loosening an apparently new or secondhand boot which manifestly pinched him" [Eumeus]

14.031 "Odysseus in his wariness sat him down, and let the staff fall from his hand"

Eum6:115 "Ul. set on by dogs   lets staff fall" slate. cf? "With regret he lets unrolled crubeen and trotter slide" [Circe] and cf "Still, as regards return, you were a lucky dog if they didn't set the terrier at you directly you got back." [Eumeus]

14.069 "I would that all the stock of Helen had perished utterly"

Eum6:102 "Eum. curses Helen" slate. cf "That bitch, that English whore, did for him, the shebeen proprietor commented." [Eumeus]

14.081 "the fatted hogs the wooers devour"

Eum6:103 "wooers eat best meat" slate. cf "there sits uncle Chubb... eating rumpsteak and onions" [Eumeus] and cf "England... gobbling up the best meat in the market" [Eumeus]

14.098 "not twenty men together have wealth so great"

Eum6:104 "Eum. boasts of Irish wealth" slate. cf "described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none" [Eumeus]

[compare]

14.153 "let me have the wages of good tidings"

Eum6:215 "Bet he comes back" slate. cf "One morning you would open the paper, the cabman affirmed, and read, Return of Parnell. He bet them what they liked." [Eumeus]

14.178 "some god or some man marred his good wits within him, and he went to fair Pylos"

Eum6:108 "Eum. laments Telemachus off to Paris" unexxed. cf? "Ireland, Parnell said, could not spare a single one of her sons." [Eumeus] and cf BM of SD: "They drove his wits astray, he said, by visions of hell" [WRocks]

14.197 "then could I easily speak for a whole year"

Eum6:109 "Talk all night" blue. cf "He could spin those yarns for hours on end all night long and lie like old boots." [Eumeus]

14.199 "I avow that I come by lineage from wide Crete, and am the son of a wealthy man"

Eum6:226 "[Greek 'Pseudangelos'] - Crete - rich" unexxed. cf? "You told the Clongowes gentry you had an uncle a judge and an uncle a general in the army." [Proteus]

14.224 "galleys with their oars were dear to me, and wars and polished shafts and darts"

Eum6:229 "like firearm, ships" unexxed. cf? "That's a good bit of steel" [Eumeus]

14.263 "soon they fell to wasting the fields of the Egyptians"

Eum6:230 "went to Troy, came back Egypt, crew outrage Egyptians," unexxed. cf? BM "We'll have a glorious drunk to astonish the druidy druids" [Telemachus]

14.379 "since the day that an Aetolian cheated me with his story"

Eum6:213 "Eum treated + was swindled by other ?Etolian who also saw Ul. in Crete" blue, slate. cf "You know Simon Dedalus? ...I seen him do that in Stockholm." [Eumeus]

14.380 "one who had slain his man"

Eum6:212 "Killed his man" slate. cf "He might even have done for his man" [Eumeus]

[compare]

14.458 "Zeus rained the whole night through"

Eum6:218 "Sail. tells of thunderstorm ?and prowess with ice" red. cf? "the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius" [Eumeus] and "I seen icebergs plenty, growlers." [Eumeus] and "he once with his daughter had experienced some remarkably choppy, not to say stormy, weather." [Eumeus] and "talking about accidents at sea, ships lost in a fog, collisions with icebergs" [Eumeus]

14.490 "he apprehended a thought in his heart"

Eum6:220 "Mantled with Ul + Ag. shivering. Ul. gets him cloak by trick." unexxed. cf? "plus the use of a rug or two and overcoat doubled into a pillow" [Eumeus]

14.533 "to lay him down even where the white-tusked boars were sleeping"

Eum6:221 "Eum. sleeps in open air" unexxed. cf? "he slept on the floor half the night naked" [Penelope]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

[Full detail]

Day thirtyfive to thirtyseven

[compare]

15.022 "all her desire is to increase the house of the man who takes her to wife"

Eum6:223 "warns against stepmother" slate. cf "To think of him house and homeless, rooked by some landlady worse than any stepmother" [Eumeus]

15.028 "The noblest of the wooers"

cf "A gifted man, Mr Bloom said of Mr Dedalus senior" [Eumeus] and "Dr Mulligan was a versatile allround man" [Eumeus]

15.028 "lie in wait for thee"

Eum6:224 "ambush of suitors" slate. cf Invincibles in Phoenix Park, and Mulligan at the train station. "Most of all he commented adversely on the desertion of Stephen by all his pubhunting confreres but one, a most glaring piece of ratting on the part of his brother medicos under all the circs." [Eumeus] and cf? "desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be about waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians" [Eumeus] and cf "the very unpleasant scene at Westland Row terminus... trying... to give Stephen the slip" [Eumeus]

15.034 "sail by night as well as day"

Eum6:225 "sail by night" slate. cf? "while the ship of the street was manoeuvring" [Eumeus]

15.045 "touching him with his heel"

Eum6:122 "Telem kicks Pisistratus awake" red. cf "Mr Bloom touched his companion's boot" [Eumeus]

15.084 "none shall send us empty away, but will give us some one thing to take with us, either a tripod of goodly bronze or a cauldron, or two mules or a golden chalice"

Eum6:117 "Men. proposes to tour collect pots" slate. cf? LB "All kinds of Utopian plans... hydros and concert tours in English watering resorts packed with theatres, turning money away" [Eumeus]

[compare]

15.123 "the hero Atrides set the two-handled cup in his hands"

Eum6:118 "Men. Megap. + Helen give gifts, mixing bowl given him by another" unexxed. "A timepiece... matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree... gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper" [Ithaca]

[compare]

15.200 "lest that old man keep me in his house in my despite"

Eum6:123 "Telem doesn't thank Nestor" slate. cf "Must visit old Deasy or telegraph." [Circe]

15.273 "I too have fled from my country, for the manslaying of one of mine own kin"

Eum6:124 "Theoclym, long geneology manslayer" slate. cf "his genealogy came about in this wise" [Eumeus] and cf? "I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap" [Eumeus]

[compare]

15.343 "there is no other thing more mischievous to men than roaming"

Eum6:131 "Ps Ul, hates roaming, place as vallet" blue. cf "I'm game for that job, shaving and brushup. I hate roaming about." [Eumeus]

15.348 "tell me of the mother of divine Odysseus, and of the father"

Eum6:133 "Asks for mother + father" unexxed. cf? LB to SD of SiD: "Where does he live at present?" [Eumeus]

15.392 "the nights now are of length untold"

Eum6:135 "Long nights, midnight sun" unexxed. cf? "The midnight sun is darkened" [Circe]

15.412 "two cities, and the whole land is divided between them"

Eum6:137 "2 cities (K's + Q's County)" unexxed. cf? "Queenstown Harbour... Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle" [Eumeus]

15.420 "First as she was washing clothes, one of them lay with her in love"

Eum6:139 "Phenicians came. Phen. serv. in house fucked her washing clothes" last part slate. cf? "his mother or aunt or some relative had enjoyed the distinction of being in service in the washkitchen" [Eumeus] and cf? MB on Mary and LB: "I was sure he had something on with that one" [Penelope]

15.426 "I am the daughter of Arybas"

Eum6:141 "d. of Arybas of Sidon" unexxed. cf "The king of Spain's daughter" [Eumeus]

[compare]

15.468 ""

Eum6:145 "sign: all ready." unexxed. cf "to unobtrusively motion to mine host as a parting shot a scarcely perceptible sign when the others were not looking to the effect that the amount due was forthcoming" [Eumeus]

15.469 "she straightway hid three goblets in her bosom"

Eum6:145 "Stole 3 cups in blouse" unexxed. cf "those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have slipped a couple into my muff when I was playing with them" [Penelope]

15.506 "in the morning I will set by you the wages of the voyage"

Eum6:148 "Pay off the crew after" blue. cf "Paid off this afternoon." [Eumeus]

15.509 "To what man's house shall I betake me"

Eum6:149 "Theo asks if Si D can get job Tel refers him to Eurym." slate. cf "He was out of a job and implored of Stephen to tell him where on God's earth he could get something, anything at all to do." [Eumeus]

[compare]

15.543 "lead this stranger home with thee"

Eum6:152 "Sends him to sleep in Pireus' house" slate. cf? "I daresay he needs it to sleep somewhere." [Eumeus]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

[Full detail]

Still day thirtyseven

16.042 "Odysseus arose from his seat to give him place"

Eum6:155 "Ul. offers chair" unexxed. cf "drew two spoonseat deal chairs to the hearthstone, one for Stephen" [Ithaca]

16.095 "dost thou willingly submit thee to oppression, or do the people through the township hate thee, obedient to the voice of a god?"

Eum6:156 "Pseudo: Do you submit or are betrayed?" red. cf "whether he had let himself be badly bamboozled, to judge by two or three low spirited remarks he let drop, or, the other way about, saw through the affair, and, for some reason or other best known to himself, allowed matters to more or less..." [Eumeus]

16.179 "looked away for very fear lest it should be a god"

Eum6:250 "T fears him a god" slate. cf?! Bloom shamed by whore "Mr Bloom, scarcely knowing which way to look, turned away on the moment, flusterfied but outwardly calm" [Eumeus]

16.198 "now like a beggar, and now again like a young man"

? Eum6:254 "double image (Sail + LB)" slate. cf? "The face of Martin Cunningham, bearded, refeatures Shakespeares beardless face" [Circe]

16.214 "flinging himself upon his noble father's neck"

Eum6:255 "T + Ul embrace" unexxed. cf? "Accordingly he passed his left arm in Stephen's right" [Eumeus]

16.235 "tell me all the tale of the wooers and their number"

Eum6:163 "Ul. questions, to work together" slate. cf? "What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?" [Ithaca]

16.288 "Out of the smoke I laid them by"

Eum6:165 "T to take away sooty arms which provoke rows" blue. cf "Another thing he commented on was equipping soldiers with firearms or sidearms of any description, liable to go off at any time, which was tantamount to inciting them against civilians should by any chance they fall out over anything." [Eumeus]

16.311 "I deem not that this device of thine will be gainful"

Eum6:166 "Ul proposes to sound people Tel contrary to this." slate. cf LB on CSP: "A more prudent course, Mr Bloom said to the not over effusive, in fact like the distinguished personage under discussion beside him, would have been to sound the lie of the land first." [Eumeus]

16.337 "thy son hath come"

Eum6:239 "Pen hears of T's return" unexxed. cf? "he was on the cards this morning when I laid out the deck" [Penelope]

16.449 "Now she ascended to her shining upper chamber"

? Eum6:245 "Pen shillyshally" slate. cf LB on CSP: "Still, as regards return, you were a lucky dog if they didn't set the terrier at you directly you got back. Then a lot of shillyshally usually followed." [Eumeus]

16.450 "bewailing Odysseus"

Eum6:244 "Pen weeps" unexxed. cf? MB on LB argument: "at last he made me cry of course a woman is so sensitive about everything" [Penelope]

16.476 "the mighty prince Telemachus smiled, and glanced at his father"

Eum6:162 "Ul. + Tel. exchange smiles" blue. cf "Mr Bloom and Stephen, each in his own particular way, both instinctively exchanged meaning glances" [Eumeus] and later "their two or four eyes conversing" [Eumeus]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Correspondences: "Eurymachus - Boylan : Suitors - scruples : Bow - reason"

[Full detail]

Day thirtyeight

17.207 "This well Ithacus and Neritus and Polyctor had builded"

Ith11:87 "Well of Ithacus" blue. cf? "From Roundwood reservoir in county Wicklow..." [Ithaca]

17.233 "as he went past, he kicked Odysseus on the hip... Argos, full of vermin"

Ith11:86 "Argos verminous. Ul. kicked." blue. cf? Parnell riot: "in the general hullaballoo Bloom sustained a minor injury from a nasty prod of some chap's elbow" [Eumeus]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

[Full detail]

Still day thirtyeight

18.006 "called him Irus, because he ran on errands"

Ith11:101 "Irus a bounder (Iris)" blue. cf? "some fellow with a bit of bounce" [Eumeus]

18.183 "bid Autonoe and Hippodameia come to me, to stand by my side in the halls"

Pen2:01 "Pen wishes to excite them but with her two maids." blue. cf? LB's wallet-pic of MB: "in evening dress cut ostentatiously low for the occasion to give a liberal display of bosom, with more than vision of breasts" [Eumeus] and cf "I could see him looking very hard at my chest" [Penelope]

18.210 "holding her glistening tire before her face"

Pen2:04 "Pen ?repose nitegown before face" blue. cf? "Penrose nearly caught me washing through the window only for I snapped up the towel to my face" [Penelope]

18.277 "Whoso wish to woo a good lady... they give the lady splendid gifts"

Pen2:05 "Pen wheedles present" blue. cf MB of BB "if I only had a ring with the stone for my month a nice aquamarine Ill stick him for one and a gold bracelet" [Penelope] and cf MB on Martha Clifford: "so as to wheedle any money she can out of him" [Penelope]

18.320 "So he spake, but they laughed and looked one at the other"

Ith11:84 "Ul. appeals to + is insulted by women" blue. cf? "the sentry... and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls" [Penelope]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

[Full detail]

Still day thirtyeight

19.90 "rebuked the handmaid"

Pen2:06 "Pen upbraids impure servant" blue. cf MB on Mary D: "I told her what I thought of her" [Penelope]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

[Full detail]

Day thirtynine

20.301 "Odysseus lightly avoided it with a turn of his head"

Ith11:70 "Oxfootbone hurled. Ul. ducks" blue. cf? LB and 'Marion': "He ducks and wards off a blow clumsily" [Circe]

20.348 "now they were laughing with alien lips, and blood-bedablled was the flesh they ate"

Ith11:71 "Wooers mad laugh with their lips, bloody flesh" unexxed. cf? LB: "the blatant jokes of the cabmen and so on, who passed it all off as a jest, laughing immoderately" [Eumeus]

Summaries:: Apollodorus? - shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

Correspondences: "Penelope - Earth : Web - Movement"

[Full detail]

Still day thirtynine

21.075 "whoso shall most easily string the bow in his hands, and shoot through all twelve axes"

Pen2:72 "Pen proposes 12 axe trial." unexxed

The 12 axes are Bloom's 12 adventures.

21. ""

Pen2:73 "Pen wakes, prays" blue. cf MB: "I felt lovely and tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I popped straight into bed till that thunder woke me up God be merciful to us I thought the heavens were coming down about us to punish us when I blessed myself and said a Hail Mary" [Penelope]

21.411 "and proved the bow-string, which rang sweetly at the touch, in tone like a swallow"

Ith11:67 "Swallow tone of bow, Ul shoots sitting" last half blue. cf? "Beautiful on that tre her voice is: weeping tone" [Hades] cf? "he kneels down to do it" [Penelope]

21.413 "Zeus thundered loud showing forth his tokens"

Ith11:106 "Ul prays signs. Zeus farts" blue. cf? "loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table" [Ithaca]

Summaries: Lamb - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - Auburn - map - essay

[Full detail]

Still day thirtynine

22.056 "yield thee amends for all that has been eaten and drunken in thy halls"

Ith11:69 "Eurymachus offers damages." blue. cf? "BELLA Who pays for the lamp?" [Circe]

22.155 "I left the well-fitted door of the chamber open"

Ith11:56 "Tel. forgets to lock armoury door" unexxed. cf? "helped to close and chain the door" [Ithaca]

Summaries: shortest - MythWeb - Temple - Spark

[Full detail]

Day thirtynine and forty

23.063 "it is one of the deathless gods that hath slain the proud wooers"

Pen2:42 "Pen asleep during slaughter: she thinks god did it" blue. cf MB "I thought the heavens were coming down about us to punish us" [Penelope]

23.095 "now again she knew him not, for that he was clad in vile raiment"

Pen2:44 "Won't accept travelstained Ul." red. cf "sometimes he used to go to bed with his muddy boots on" [Penelope]

23.142 "first they went to the bath, and arrayed them in doublets"

Pen2:46 "Ul. wash + brush up" green. cf? "I'm game for that job, shaving and brushup." [Eumeus]

23.171 "come, nurse, strew a bed for me to lie all alone"

Pen2:47 "[Ul.] threats to sleep alone" blue. cf? "I wish hed sleep in some bed by himself" [Penelope]

23.215 "for fear lest some man should come and deceive me with his words"

Pen2:49 "Pen, reasons for chastity he might b---" blue. cf "you never know consumption or leave me with a child embarazada" [Penelope]

23.337 "yet she never won his heart within his breast"

Pen2:50 "Calypso never won his heart" blue. cf "anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her" [Penelope]

23.338 "Next how with great toil he came to the Phaeacians"

Pen2:51 "Ul. Tale-- Nausikaa" unexxed. cf? MB on LB "he made up a pack of lies to hide it" [Penelope]

Summaries: Lamb - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Temple - pix - map - [essay] - shortest - MythWeb - Spark

[Full detail]

Still day forty

24.080 "we pile a great and goodly tomb, we the holy host of Argive warriors, high on a jutting headland over wide Hellespont"

Pen2:60 "high tomb on peaks" unexxed. cf? "up on the tiptop under the rockgun near OHaras tower" [Penelope]

24.103 "the soul of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, knew the dear son of Melaneus, renowned Amphimedon, who had been his host, having his dwelling in Ithaca"

Pen2:61 "Ach + Ag. speaks of 1894 ?as 1904. [Ach + Ag.] came to Ith. + stayed with Amphimedon" unexxed

this probably inspired the "inadvertence" in Bloom's and Stephen's path as they approach Eccles [more]

24.117 "it was a full month ere we had sailed"

Pen2:63 "1 month's job to persuade Ul. to go" blue. cf "I suppose Id have to dring it into him for a month" [Penelope]

24.134 "this shroud for the hero Laertes"

Pen2:66 "she weaves a deathshroud for Laertes which is Ul. coronation robe" (last half exxed red) cf "I suppose I oughtnt to have buried him in that little woolly jacket I knitted" [Penelope]

24.186 "the floor all ran with blood"

Ith11:35 "blood dripping walls" unexxed. cf?! "too much blood up in us... pouring out of me like the sea" [Penelope]

24.289 "my child, - if ever such an one there was"

Ith11:44 "Laertes doubts he had a son" blue. cf? DBM "My son Danny?" [Eumeus]

24.340 "Pear-trees thirteen thou gavest me and ten apple-trees and figs two-score"

Ith11:47 "[Laertes] gives little Ul. 63 trees" blue. cf? Prince of Wales in Gibraltar: "where he planted the tree" [Penelope]

Summaries: Lamb - Johnson - Kennesaw - Virtual - Torino - Temple - shortest - MythWeb - Spark - game - poncy book review - ditto - virtue - essay

Lamb (1808 paraphrase w/anchors) "THIS history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses and his followers in their return from Troy after the destruction of that famous city of Asia by the Grecians."

Johnson (Joycean) "The Odyssey opens (after an invocation to the gods) in medias res ('in the midst of things')."

Kennesaw (Joycean) "The first four books of The Odyssey describe Odysseus's son Telemachus, specifically the helplessness he feels at the mercy of the suitors and his subsequent longing for his father's return."

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