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The National Maternity Hospital had opened in 1894. (Mount street runs across the bottom of the pic, Holles angles off to the left. ...But I don't see why the street address is Holles not Mount???)[Prior: Ch13] [Up: Ulysses] [JAJportal] [Robot Wisdom home page]
As of Nov2000 these notes have been broken down into 18 separate pages, so some links will be broken (sorry). Basic skills intro.
Sun's path: Scylla WRocks
Lestry Sirens
Eolus Cyclops
Proteus Hades Nausikaa
Nestor LotusE > OxenSun <
Telemachus Calypso Circe
SD= Stephen Dedalus BM= Buck Mulligan LB= Leopold Bloom Eumeus
SiD= Simon Dedalus JAJ= James A Joyce BB= Blazes Boylan Ithaca
EB= EncycBritannica Cath= CatholicEncyc MB= Molly Bloom PenelopeThis is meant to supplement Gifford's "Ulysses Annotated" [Amazon], not replace it. Line numbers use Gabler's system. [Amazon]
14: Oxen of the Sun
[etext] [part 2]
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Linati schema: "The Eternal Flocks" [more]
Odyssey: Circe's advice, adventure
The National Maternity Hospital had opened in 1894. (Mount street runs across the bottom of the pic, Holles angles off to the left. ...But I don't see why the street address is Holles not Mount???)
[pic] [map]; 360 degree Quicktime VR tour [aerial view]
17yo Joyce's 1899 school-essay, "The Study of Languages" vividly anticipates Oxen's plan: [cw28-29]
"...in comparing the speech of to-day with that of years ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race... the names we meet in the literature of our language... are landmarks in the transition of a language... widening and improving as it advances..."
# (Roman) triple-invocation, Sallust banality
# (medieval Latin) banality about maternity hospital
# (Anglo-Saxon) LB and Nurse Callan renew acquaintance
# (morality play) Mrs Purefoy's life still in danger
# (Mandeville) medicals invite LB to join revel
# (Malory) medicals joke crudely about maternity
# (Elizabethan) SD joins blasphemy in his jesuitical style
# (Milton) SD feels betrayed by priests
# (Bunyan) SD terrified by thunder
# (Pepys) BM meets Bannon outside, they enter
# (Defoe) satire of lord Harry the bull
# (Addison) Mulligan's card w/fertilisation scheme
# (Sterne) Bannon on Milly, Lynch on Kitty
# (Goldsmith) ribaldry about Nurse Callan
# (Burke)
# (Sheridan)
# (Junius)
# (Gibbon)
# (gothic)
# (Lamb)
# (DeQuincy)
# (Landor)
# (Macaulay)
# (TH Huxley)
# (Dickens)
# (Newman)
# (Pater)
# (Ruskin)
# (Carlyle)
# (slang) last round at Burke's, many riddles
14.76 "white sisters"
[uniform] ditto [pix source]
14.269 "corselet of lamb's wool"
early in Homer's Odyssey, Telemachus sleeps "wrapped in a fleece of wool" {Homer]
14.281 "vicar of Bray"
[lyric&midi] ditto
14.367 "Erin"
[lyric]
14.385 "no blister"
cf Hamlet [etext]
14.529 [Gogarty referred in a 1905 letter to "my political pantomime 'The Cows'" [sw30] ]
14.649 "a man's a man"
[lyric&midi] ditto
14.894 "conjugial"
Rose 'corrects' this to 'conjugal' (again) [Senn]
14.950 "abigail and officer"
Gabler has 'abigail and obstetrician' [Senn]
14.971 "perpetration"
Rose 'corrects' to 'perpetuation' [Senn]
14.1023 "laudanum"
Haines has opium for a toothache. 1920 Oxen notes: "Haines = dope", "tootache (Haines)", "laudanum for Haines" [dental ad]
14.1048 "wheaten loaf"
[info&pix&recipe]
14.1132 "Throwaway"
[pic]
14.1148 "Periplepomenos"
Gabler and Rose re-spell this, different ways [Senn]
14.1277 "pause"
cf Hamlet [etext]
14.1344 "There are sins"
Joyce said of this Newman passage: "where all the other authors are parodied, Newman alone is rendered pure, in the grave beauty of his style. Besides, I needed that fulcrum to hold up the rest." (Potts217)
14.1391 "Burke's!"
[detailed analysis of rest of chapter]
14.1419 "Darby"
[GIF of music] [info]
14.1458 "Tramp, tramp, tramp"
{RealAud Nelson Eddy] [RealAud] [lyric&midi] [GIF of music] [info]
14.1469 "stopped short"
My Grandfather's Clock [RealAud] [info]
14.1494 "Bold bad girl"
[lyric&midi]
14.1497 "left but the name"
Moore [lyric]
14.1498 "pull all together"
Eton Boating Song [GIF of music] [info]
14.1508 "Bowsing nowt"
[lyric&midi] ditto
14.1536 "Bonsoir"
[lyric&midi] [GIF of music] [info]
14.1567 "Mona"
[GIF of music] [info]
14.1570 "Brigade"
cf [pic]
14.1591 "Just you try it on"
Maybe 'Jest' [Senn]