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# Oxen of the Sun
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Book XIII
(Eumeus):
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Correspondences: "Eumeus - Skin the Goat : Sailor - Ulysses Pseudangelos : Melanthius - Corly [Corley]"
Abbrev's: DBM = DB Murphy (WB in most editions)
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!)
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]
13.103 "at the harbour's head is a long leaved olive tree, and hard by is a pleasant cave and shadowy... and there moreover do bees hive"
Eum6:195 "cave - olivetree - bees" unexxed
13.107 "there are great looms of stone... Two gates there are to the cave, the one set toward the North Wind whereby men may go down, but the portals toward the South pertain rather to the gods"
Eum6:196 "Loom of stone, 2 gates (Men + gods)" unexxed
13.112 "These they set in a heap by the trunk of the olive tree, a little aside from the road, lest some wayfaring man, before Odysseus awakened, should come and spoil them."
Eum6:196 "asleep with gifts watched" unexxed
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]
13.168 "who is this that fettered our swift ship on the deep as she drave homewards? Even now she stood full in sight."
surely Joyce used this-- someone vanishing?
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]
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]
13.223 "in the guise of a young man"
Eum6:98 "Athena disguised" slate
13.301 "who am always by thee and guard thee in all adventures"
Eum6:201 "Pallas boasts her help" unexxed
13.318 "thereafter I have never beheld thee"
Eum6:202 "Ul. denies, upbraids her" unexxed
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]
13.342 "I had no mind to be at strife with Poseidon"
Eum6:203 "She didn't want row with Neptune" unexxed
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]
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
Book XIV:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Still day thirtyfive
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]
14.109 "Odysseus ceased not to eat flesh and drink wine right eagerly"
Eum6:105 "Ul. eating all the time" unexxed
14.147 "I call him 'worshipful'"
Eum6:106 "Eum. loq 'worshipful' Ul." unexxed
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]
14.203 "Castor son of Hylax, of whose blood I avow me to be"
Eum6:228 "Castor, s. of Hylax father" unexxed
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]
14.285 "So for seven whole years I abode with their king"
Eum6:231 "these set on them, he implores king, 7 yrs. there," unexxed
14.297 "his purpose was to sell me in Libya"
Eum6:232 "Phenician lures Ul. away, 1 year, to sell him in Libya," unexxed
14.313 "I clung round the mast and was borne by the ruinous winds"
Eum6:233 "shipwreck borne on mast to Thesprotis, Pheidon king" unexxed
14.328 "He had gone, he said, to Dodona"
Eum6:234 "helps, shows him Ul's treasure, Ul gone to Dodana" unexxed
14.337 "Dulichium, a land rich in grain... They stript me of my garments"
Eum6:235 "oracle, Ph. sends him to Dulicium grain, crews strip him" unexxed
14.353 "I swam"
Eum6:236 "swims off" unexxed
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]
14.425 "smote the boar with a billet of oak"
Eum6:216 "Boar killed with log" unexxed
14.437 "he gave Odysseus the portion of honour"
Eum6:217 "Gives Ul. best portion of 7" unexxed
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
Book XV:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Day thirtyfive to thirtyseven
15.004 "she found Telemachus"
Eum6:222 "Pallas + Telem." unexxed
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]
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]
15.126 "for thy bride to wear it"
Eum6:119 "Helen gives weddingdress" unexxed
15.153 "salute in my name Nestor"
Eum6:120 "Men sends greetings to Nestor" unexxed
15.160 "even as he spake a bird flew forth"
Eum6:121 "Bird portent" unexxed
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]
15.280 "I will not drive thee away"
Eum6:127 "Telem harbours Theoclym." slate
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]
15.363 "she herself had reared me along with long-robed Ctimene"
Eum6:134 "Eum. foster son of Laertes, with Ctimene" unexxed
15.392 "the nights now are of length untold"
Eum6:135 "Long nights, midnight sun" unexxed. cf? "The midnight sun is darkened" [Circe]
15.403 "There is a certain isle called Syria"
Eum6:136 "Eum. b in Syria, no ?deaths or sick" unexxed
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]
15.414 "my father was king over the twain, Ctesius"
Eum6:138 "father Ctesius king" unexxed
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]
15.431 "wouldst thou now return home with us"
Eum6:142 "offer to bring her back" unexxed
15.440 "let none of your fellows speak to me and greet me"
Eum6:143 "pretend not to know her" unexxed
15.459 "There came a man versed in craft to my father's house, with a golden chain"
Eum6:144 "send messenger with chain to sell," unexxed
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]
15.478 "Artemis, the archer, smote the woman"
Eum6:146 "Artemis kills her. Laertes bought him" unexxed
15.504 "now drive the black ship to the city"
Eum6:147 "Tel. sends ship alone" unexxed
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]
15.522 "most eager to wed my mother"
Eum6:150 "wooer" unexxed
15.525 "even as he spake, a bird flew out"
Eum6:151 "birdportent" unexxed
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
Book XVI:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Still day thirtyseven
16.016 "he let a great tear fall"
Eum6:238 "Eu. weeps with joy." unexxed
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]
16.099 "would that I had the youth"
Eum6:157 "If I were what I was" slate
16.130 "do thou go with haste and tell the constant Penelope that she hath got me safe"
Eum6:246 "Eu to tell her if T back" unexxed
16.153 "send forth the house-dame her handmaid"
Eum6:247 "Maid will tell L." unexxed
16.164 "she nodded at him with bent brows"
Eum6:248 "Ath. frowns to Ul to come on" blue
16.174 "she increased his bulk and bloom"
Eum6:249 "U looks young" slate
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]
16.188 "thy father am I, for whose sake thou sufferest many pains and groanest sore"
Eum6:251 "thy father I for whom you suffer" unexxed
16.192 "as yet he believed not that it was his father"
Eum6:252 "T doubts" unexxed
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]
16.298 "then shall Pallas Athene and Zeus the counsellor enchant the wooers... let no man hear"
Eum6:164 "Gods will help: Secrecy" slate
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]
16.350 "bear word to our friends to return home"
Eum6:240 "Suitors, alarm, recall others" unexxed
16.354 "sweetly he laughed out"
Eum6:241 "one laughs (Uly ?came back)" unexxed
16.403 "let us seek to the counsel of the gods"
Eum6:242 "Council, plot to kill, Oracle" unexxed
16.413 "Medon the henchman had told her of it"
Eum6:243 "Medon tells Pen." unexxed
16.430 "Odysseus stayed and withheld them"
Eum6:159 "Ul. saved Anti's father" unexxed
16.446 "I bid him have no fear of death, not from the wooers' hands; but from the gods none may avoid it"
? Eum6:160 "Eurym. protests friendliness fateful" unexxed
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
Book XVII
(Ithaca):
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Correspondences: "Eurymachus - Boylan : Suitors - scruples : Bow - reason"
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]
17.362 "gathering morsels of bread among the wooers, and learn which were righteous and which unjust"
Ith11:96 "Ul. begs from all to test" blue
17.454 "I see thou hast not wisdom with thy beauty!"
Ith11:97 "'Sei bello ma non savio' Antinuo" blue
17.542 "Telemachus sneezed loudly... And Penelope laughed"
Ith11:100 "Tel sneezes. Pen laughs" unexxed
Summaries:
shortest -
MythWeb -
Temple -
Spark
Book XVIII:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
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]
18.085 "send thee to the mainland to Echetus"
Ith11:114 "send Irus to Echetus" blue
18.085 "the king, the maimer of all mankind"
Ith11:115 "maimer of men" blue
18.089 "the twain put up their hands"
Ith11:103 "Ul + Irus prizefight" blue
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
Book XIX:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
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]
19.225 "Odysseus wore a thick purple mantle, twofold, which had a brooch fashioned in gold, with two sheathes for the pins, and on the face of it was a curious device: a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn"
Ith11:110 "scarfpin" blue
19.408 "let the child's name be 'a man of wrath,' Odysseus"
Ith11:83 "Ul. child of wrath: scar" blue
19.470 "the water was spilled on the ground"
Ith11:79 "footbath water spilled." unexxed
19.535 "hear a dream... Twenty geese... Now a great eagle"
Pen2:70 "Dream of 20 geese + eagle" unexxed
19.563 "one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory"
Pen2:71 "horn + ivory" unexxed
Summaries:
shortest -
MythWeb -
Temple -
Spark
Book XX:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Day thirtynine
20.034 "is not thy wife there within and thy child"
Ith11:80 "Pall 'You have wife + child'" unexxed
20.185 "Philoetius... Neatherd"
Ith11:109 "Philoetius = neatherd" unexxed
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]
20.367 "I see evil coming on you"
Ith11:72 "Theoclymenus, vision of disaster" unexxed
Summaries::
Apollodorus? -
shortest -
MythWeb -
Temple -
Spark
Book XXI
(Penelope):
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Correspondences: "Penelope - Earth : Web - Movement"
Still day thirtynine
21.001 "grey-eyed Athene, put it into the heart of the daughter of Icarius, wise Penelope, to set the bow and the axes of grey iron, for the wooers in the halls of Odysseus, to be the weapons of the contest"
Ith11:73 "Ul = W. Tell." unexxed
21.013 "gifts of a friend of Odysseus, that met with him in Lacedaemon, Iphitus son of Eurytus"
Ith11:74 "Bow of Iphitus, pledge of friendship killed by Hercules" blue
21.016 "Odysseus had gone thither to recover somewhat that was owing to him"
Ith11:75 "Ul went to recover debt" blue
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." unexxedThe 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. ""
Pen2:76 "Dreams BB in her bed" exxed in blue 739.22?
21. ""
Pen2:78 "hair - sex" blue
21.082 "the neatherd wept, when he beheld the bow of his lord"
Pen2:82 "weeps over relic" red
21. ""
Pen2:14 "to see petite ?mariee"
21. ""
Pen2:28 "MB marriage ?safe"
21. ""
Pen2:35 "LB late threw watch in pool." unexxed
21.125 "Thrice he made it to tremble in his great desire to draw it"
Ith11:76 "Tel tries bow, greased." blue
21.207 "Behold, home am I come"
Ith11:77 "Ul. tries common herd + reveals himself" blue
21.258 "to-day the feast of the archer god is held in the land, a holy feast"
Ith11:64 "Feast of Apollo- archergod- morn." red
21.282 "give me the polished bow"
Ith11:65 "Ul. beggar given inch takes all (?jew gets ?own)" blue
21.369 "soon shalt thou rue it that thou servest many masters... Telemachus bids thee bar the well-fitting doors of thy chamber"
Ith11:66 "many masters rope on door" unexxed
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
Book XXII:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Still day thirtynine
22.012 "who among men at feast would deem that one man amongst so many, how hardy soever he were, would bring on him foul death"
Ith11:68 "Antinous never knows who killed him" blue
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]
22.193 "dragged him up the lofty pillar"
Ith11:57 "Melanthius is hanged up alive" unexxed
22.207 "remember me thy dear companion"
Ith11:58 "Mentor-- old friend of Ul." unexxed
22.297 "Athene held up her destroying aegis on high from the roof"
Ith11:59 "Pall. lifts aegis and maddens them" blue
22.312 "I entreat thee by thy knees, Odysseus"
Ith11:60 "Leiodes wooers' seer begs but is killed" unexxed
22.356 "wound not this blameless man"
Ith11:61 "Phemius (bard) + Medon spared" unexxed
22.472 "about all their necks nooses were cast, that they might die by the most pitiful death"
Ith11:62 "12 unchaste virgins swab up and are killed hanged all in a row" blue
22.475 "cut off his nostrils and his ears "
Ith11:63 "Melanthius mutilated" unexxed
Summaries:
shortest -
MythWeb -
Temple -
Spark
Book XXIII:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
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]
23.133 "let the divine minstrel, with his loud lyre in hand, lead off for us the measure of the mirthful dance"
Pen2:45 "Music + dance" unexxed
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]
23.243 "on the other side she stayed the golden-throned Dawn by the stream Oceanus, and suffered her not to harness the swift-footed steeds that bear light to men, Lampus and Phaethon"
Pen2:48 "Lampus + Phaethon dawnstars stayed in E, not in W." unexxed
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]
23.365 "sit there and look on no man, nor ask any question"
Pen2:52 "Pen remote. Big Four escape in dark" unexxed
Summaries:
Lamb -
Johnson -
Kennesaw -
Virtual -
Temple -
pix -
map -
[essay] -
shortest -
MythWeb -
Spark
Book XXIV:
Greek -
Butcher-Lang -
Murray
Still day forty
24.001 "Now Cyllenian Hermes called forth from the halls the souls of the wooers, and he held in his hand his wand that is fair and golden"
Pen2:53 "2nd nekia, Cyllen. Hermes goldrod." 1st half red. The first nekia was in Book XI, also summoning ghosts.
24. ""
Pen2:54 "Don't mention Troy (Pen)" blue
24. ""
Pen2:55 "MB detested LB" unexxed
24. ""
Pen2:56 "Not ?smoke like him so much after Lord Melb." unexxed. cf MB on LB with Josie: "trying to look like Lord Byron I said I liked though he was too beautiful for a man and he was a little before we got engaged afterwards though she didnt like it so much" [Penelope]
24.023 "the son of Peleus spake to him first"
Pen2:57 "Speech of Achilles" unexxed
24. ""
Pen2:58 "funeral of Ach. at sea, his Thetis" unexxed
24.065 "On the eighteenth day we gave thy body to the flames... thy mother asked the gods for glorious prizes in the games"
Pen2:59 "18 dys mourning, games" unexxed
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" unexxedthis 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]
24.129 "She set up in her halls a mighty web, fine of woof and very wide, whereat she would weave"
Pen2:64 "?batsouls: her web"
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]
24.227 "digging about a plant"
Ith11:41 "Laertes digs round plant in rough gloves" blue
24.249 "Thyself art scarce so well cared for"
Ith11:42 "Himself ill cared plant" blue
24.269 "He declared him to be by lineage from out of Ithaca, and said that his own father was Laertes"
Ith11:43 "Ul. lies to him" blue
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]
24.306 "my own name is Eperitus"
Ith11:45 "Eperitus, Oudeis" last half red
24.316 "he clutched the dust and ashes and showered them on his gray head"
Ith11:46 "Laert. ashes on head" blue
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]
24.348 "Odysseus caught him fainting to his breast"
Ith11:48 "[Laertes] faints" unexxed
24.382 "so should I have loosened the knees of many an one of them in the halls"
Ith11:50 "Laertes boasts He ..." blue
24.387 "the old man Dolius drew nigh"
Ith11:49 "Old Dolius" unexxed
24.413 "Now Rumour the messenger went swiftly all about the city"
Ith11:51 "Rumour" unexxed
24.438 "let us be going, lest these fellows be beforehand with us"
Ith11:52 "Eupeithes-- 'Ul lest all men now kills here'" unexxed
24.474 "tell me what is now the hidden counsel "
Ith11:53 "Heavenly council" unexxed
24.522 "smote Eupeithes through his casque "
Ith11:54 "Laer. kills Eupeithes, father of Antinous." unexxed
Summaries:
Lamb -
Johnson -
Kennesaw -
Virtual -
Torino -
Temple -
shortest -
MythWeb -
Spark -
game -
poncy book review -
ditto -
virtue -
essay
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