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Advanced notes for Ulysses ch8 (Lestrygonians)

Jorn Barger Feb2000 (updated Feb2001)

As of Nov2000 these notes have been broken down into 18 separate pages, so some links will be broken (sorry). Basic skills intro.

 Sun's path:                       Scylla WRocks
                           > Lestry <           Sirens
                          Eolus                     Cyclops
              Proteus   Hades                         Nausikaa
             Nestor  LotusE                             OxenSun
       Telemachus  Calypso                                Circe
 
SD= Stephen Dedalus  BM= Buck Mulligan   LB= Leopold Bloom   Eumeus
SiD= Simon Dedalus   JAJ= James A Joyce  BB= Blazes Boylan    Ithaca
EB= EncycBritannica  Cath= CatholicEncyc MB= Molly Bloom       Penelope

This is meant to supplement Gifford's "Ulysses Annotated" [Amazon], not replace it. Line numbers use Gabler's system. [Amazon]


8: Lestrygonians [etext]

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Linati schema: "Dejection" [more]

Odyssey: adventure (one par)

[map], ditto; 360 degree Quicktime VR tour [aerial view]

[hypertext edition]

# LB on Sackville street gets throwaway
# LB tosses throwaway off bridge, feeds gulls
# LB ponders ad ideas
# LB pleasant memories of life with Molly
# chat with Josie Breen
# UP:up postcard, Mrs Purefoy's hard labor
# Tisdall Farrell, LB moseys up Westmoreland
# LB ponders maternity complications
# LB ponders policemen and spies
# LB ponders politicking
# LB ponders Parnell brother, AE with woman
# LB does parallax-experiment
# Grafton street window-gazing
# LB revolted by Burton's beastly eaters
# LB backtrack to Byrne's
# Nosey Flynn drivels as LB orders lunch
# LB eats as others discuss Gold Cup race
# LB ponders food, poison, eating-fashions
# LB dreams of Molly, women's bodies
# Byrne and Flynn gossip about LB, gone to pee
# Lyons et al enter, talk race, LB exits
# LB helps stripling
# LB ponders blindness
# LB flees Boylan (or lookalike)

8.3 "manufacturer"

Lemon's [pic]

8.4 "God. Save. Our."

[lyric&midi]

8.13 "Dowie"

[old Irish Times]

8.27 "Bachelor's walk"

[map] [map] [pic]

8.44 "O'Connell bridge"

[map] [old pic] ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, [live webcam] underside

[compare]

8.67 "Hamlet"

cf Hamlet [etext]

[compare]

8.109 "ballast office"

[pic]

8.109 "Dunsink time"

Dublin/Dunsink is six degrees fifteen minutes west of London/Greenwich [map] each degree is worth four minutes, so Ireland's Dunsink timezone since 1880 had been 25 minutes behind Greenwich (noon in Dublin equalled 12:25 in London). the Ballast Office timeball fell at 1pm Greenwich, or 12:35 Dunsink time. [Observatory]

8.133 "Dixon"

thread [password]

[compare]

8.160 "Glencree"

[old pic of site] [local map] wider

8.166 "Sugarloaf"

[pic]

8.190 "May be for months"

Kathleen Mavourneen [J McCormack RealAud] [RealAudio] [lyric&midi] [GIF of music] [info]

[compare]

8.202 "O"

thread: [password] [query]

8.221 "Comin' through the rye"

[RealAud] [lyric&midi] [GIF of music] [info]

[compare]

8.253 "ace of spades"

thread: [password] ditto ditto [discussion]

8.258 "up"

riddles [more]

longshot: [password]

8.282 "Holles"

[old sketch]

[compare]

8.302 "Farrell"

Gogarty's memoir As I Was Going Down Sackville Street opens with a discussion of this harmless loony, and a sketch of his mismatched costume (cf HCE in FW, usually described as wearing seven mismatched items of clothing)

8.310 "Harrison's"

[pic]

8.320 "Alf Bergan"

a loyal drinking pal of JSJ's for many decades to come, but only 24yo to JSJ's 54yo. (Stannie hated him.) [cdd61]

[compare]

8.358 "Method"

cf Hamlet [etext]

[compare]

8.414 "Tommy Moore's"

[pic] site? [aerial view]

8.415 "meeting of the waters"

[John McCormack RealAud] [direct midi] [lyric] [GIF of music] [info]

8.418 "Balfe's"

[bio] more

8.420 "could a tale"

cf Hamlet [etext]

8.440 "Whether on the scaffold high"

[lyric&midi] lyric

[compare]

8.476 "Trinity's surly front"

[aerial pic & info] [360 degree Quicktime VR tour]

8.496 "Provost's house"

[old sketch]

8.498 "Salmon"

[pic]

[compare]

[compare]

8.551 "Nassau street"

[map] [old pic] ditto

8.553 "young Sinclair"

Willy Sinclair was Joyce's age, Jewish, and ran an antique shop in Nassau street with his brother Harry. Padraic Colum introduced Joyce to them when J was looking for supporters for his 'Goblin' newspaper [ofjj56]

8.589 "The young May moon"

[RealAud] [lyric] [GIF of music] [info]

[compare]

8.606 "The harp that once"

[RealAud] [lyric&midi] lyric

8.614 "Grafton street"

Gogarty: 'The three best streets in Dublin are... Grafton, Dawson, and Kildare.... connected by Duke and Molesworth' [aiwgdss20] this precisely echoes Bloom's path over the rest of the chapter.

[map] [old pic] ditto, ditto; [new pic] ditto ditto ditto [pix index]

8.620 "Brown Thomas"

[pic] ditto

8.638 "Perfume of embraces"

[Joyce quote]

thread: [password] ditto ditto [discussion]

8.640 "Duke street."

[pic]

[compare]

8.675 "Look on"

cf Hamlet [etext]

8.697 "Davy Byrne's"

[map] [pix] [pic] [pic] [pic]

[compare]

8.707 "Father O'Flynn"

[RealAud] [lyric&midi] [direct midi]

8.737 "his nook"

[pub regulars]

8.748 "nigger"

[etym]

[compare]

[compare]

8.818 "with relish of disgust"

Rose relocates this phrase [cite]

[compare]

8.888 "halfnaked"

not hardly! [pic] [pic source]

8.889 "Dubedat"

[etext?]

[compare]

[compare]

[compare]

[compare]

8.1080 "Molesworth street"

[map] [old pic]

[compare]

8.1146 "excursion"

[pix&info] [old Irish Times] [pyro] [novel]

[compare]

8.1151 "freemasons' hall"

[pic]

8.1167 "Library."

[map] [pic] ditto

8.1169 "Museum."

[map] [great pic] [pic&info] [pix index]

8.1171 "Is it?"

1918 notebook, re king of Lestrygonians: "Antiphates - blasphemer accuser - curser (Blazes)" or maybe blasphemeS etc

(is it possible the straw hat is Mulligan's? Mulligan and Blazes are like doppelgangers, anyway! [more])



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