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Advanced notes for Ulysses ch15 (Circe)

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]

15: Circe [etext] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]

Currently this section is mostly a reformatting of 70k of older corrections to Gifford's annotations

Compare text and notes via frames (Bibliomania's version is truly awful with typos, so I created my own [qv], in four parts)

'Dent' is Dent's outstanding "Colloquial Language in Ulysses"

Linati schema: "The Man-Hating Orc" [more]

[map], modern map

470k close-reading of the oldest draft of Circe

Joyce compiled long lists of animal references, and of different gaits, before writing this chapter [more].

The surviving notesheets give very useful evidence also of how Joyce was handling Homeric parallels. [more]

# nighttown setting
# SD and Lynch stroll past, LB hurries after them, stopping to buy food
# LB mishaps, hallucinations of father, mother
# hallucinations of Molly, Gerty, Mrs Breen
# hallucinated dialog with Mrs Breen
# hallucinated dialog with Mrs Breen
# street scenes, LB feeds dog
# hallucination of interrogation by watch
# testimony of Beaufoy, Mary Driscoll
# defense of O'Molloy
# testimony of rich ladies
# the citizen jurors, the hangman
# Dignam, Rochford; LB and whores

# Zoe seduces LB
# LB hallucination of coronation
# celebrity testimonials
# LB omniscient
# voices of skepticism
# LB's miracles, scourging
# LB immolation; Zoe Jewish
# LB follows Zoe, sees SD and Lynch
# SD hallucination of end of world
# SD hallucination voices of competing religions
# LB hallucination of grandpa Virag
# LB hallucination of Virag plus Henry Flower
# SD, Virag, whores on sexuality of priests
# Virag departs, SD's hallucination of SiD

# LB ponders whorehouse, entrance of Bella
# LB hallucination of Bella/Bello B&D
# LB S&M and crossdressing
# LB confesses sins, sold into sexual slavery
# LB's impotence, Molly and Milly
# indictment of the Nymph
# highschool sins
# LB challenges Nymph, stands up to Bella
# SD overpays, LB retrieves overpayment
# Zoe reads SD's palm
# LB hallucination of BB
# LB hallucination of Shakespeare/Cunningham

# SD mimics Paris barker, hallucination of foxhunt
# all dance to Yorkshire Girl on pianola
# SD hallucination of BM, mother
# SD smashes lamp, flees
# LB settles, follows
# SD tries to reason with soldiers
# voices incite bloodshed
# hallucination of Black Mass
# Carr knocks out SD
# Corny squares things with watch
# LB guards SD, vision of Rudy

[map] c1920? pic

15.1 "Mabbot street"

this street (called Corporation street for most of the 20th C) is now being renamed 'James Joyce street' [cite]

15.1 "nighttown"

[Ellmann]

15.3 "will-o'-the-wisps"

cf Faust on way to Walpurgisnacht: "Let's ask a will-o'-the-wisp to lend his flicker!" [etext]

15.3 "grimy"

all versions before Gabler had 'flimsy' but this seems to have been the first typist's misreading. yet JAJ uses 'flimsy' several more times in the book, grimy never. flimsy suggests a stage set, while grimy seems a bit of a cliche. Joyce had many opportunities to correct the typo, so if the other uses of flimsy are later, we might consider it an (FW-like) approved typo.

15.6 "wafers"

the cone would be invented in St Louis later in 1904 [info]

15.6 "coral and copper snow"

most editions mistakenly say 'coal and copper snow' (hardly less appetising). coral pink is the strawberry icecream here, copper brown is chocolate (probably Italian 'water ices', not ice cream [info]).
the coral polyp is an animal [faq] and so initiates the episode's inventory of animal species.

15.9 "Whistles"

the whistles are presented here as articulating words... but whistles can't really do that.

15.10 "CALLS... ANSWERS"

Gabler has 'CALL' and 'ANSWER'

15.13 "stable"

at the start of ch16, SD and LB will pass "the livery stables at the corner of Montgomery street"

15.15 "Saint Vitus"

[info]

15.15 "Saint Vitus' dance"

[info]
Budgen (p228) has JAJ calling the rhythm of this chapter "locomotor ataxia" (unsteadiness/ poor coordination due to syphilis)

15.18 "Kithogue"

awkward (per Dent)

15.24 "Ghaghahest"

in the west. cf Circe notesheet "idiot prophet with boiled eyes light from the ?west." exxed blue. also Cyclops notesheet: "Connemara ?simpleton-- fire in the west" exxed blue, and "Godstruck holy fool, ?frig epipelsy" sic, unexxed.

15.27 "muffled"

cf "They unmuffled their heads" [Homer] (muffled heads symbolised mourning)

15.35 "navvy"

slang for laborer, especially 19th century canal diggers (from ironic 'navigator', nautical motif)

15.36 "area"

sunken level in front of a house. cf [Ithaca]

15.36 "a corner"

the watch are on one of the six (?) corners where the three streets meet ...or a block away?

15.42 "sings"

cf? 1908 notebook: "Dedalus: It annoyed him to hear a girl begin suddenly the first bars of a song and stop."

15.48 "Carr... Compton... Bennett"

Carr and Bennett owe their names to the parties in Joyce's farcical 1918 legal wrangle about who should pay for an actor's trousers. Ellmann's index cites Compton as the English Players' business manager-- but what did he do to tick Joyce off?
Joyce also considered using Haines as one of the soldiers (Circe notesheet)

15.53 "Cavan"

[map]

15.55 "Cootehill and Belturbet"

[map]

15.61 "bloodbright"

Carr and Compton are British redcoats, unlike the just-mentioned Irish night watch in shouldercapes

15.63 "crowd close to the redcoats"

if the crowd is just before the bawd (15.78), it ought to be on Mabbot, just north of Talbot

15.74 "paschal"

[Cath]

15.77 "aquam... de templo a latere dextro"

[etext]
longshot: if this echoes the spear piercing Christ's side, then cf "I smote him on the spine in the middle of the back, and the brazen shaft went clean through him" [Homer]

15.84 "altius aliquantulum"

'a little bit higher' duplicating the pattern of Cissy's singing

15.86 "medicals"

cf "her bonesetter, her medicineman" [Telemachus]

15.92 "squarepusher"

Dent finds nothing disreputable in the references

15.93 "mantrap"

context suggests this is the neighborhood, not a house Dent finds no references to brothels at all

15.94 "Stag"

Dent finds 'cold-hearted unfeeling selfish'

15.94 "highlander"

[old ad] mentioned in Circe notesheets

15.105 "gesture"

cf Stephen Hero p184:
"--There should be an art of gesture, said Stephen one night to Cranly.
--Yes?
--Of course I don't mean art of gesture in the sense that the elocution professor understands the word. For him a gesture is an emphasis. I mean a rhythm. You know the song 'Come unto those yellow sands'?
--No.
--This is it, said the youth making a graceful anapaestic gesture with each arm. That's the rhythm, do you see?
--Yes.
--I would like to go out into Grafton St some day and make gestures in the middle of the street.
--I'd like to see that..."

15.109 "Pornosophical philotheology"

combination of pornography, philosophy, and theology

15.112 "bitted"

[pic] ditto

15.117 "bread or wine"

Fitzgerald [etext] w/frames

15.120 "yellow"

Portrait [etext]

15.122 "belle dame"

Keats [etext]

15.122 "qui laetificat"

who gladdens

15.129 "customhouse"

(to go that way would mean turning 180 degrees from this point and retracing their steps for half a block or so-- by this point, they've already passed the bawd, but Bloom won't pass her till after he turns the corner and passes O'Beirne's wall, so they must also already have turned that corner... i think.)

15.137 "flaring cresset"

a torch of buring oil. it seems the navvy has uprooted the lamp, in some hallucinatory way. (is there a literary allusion here?)

15.141 "tramsiding"

the navvy is apparently headed south on Mabbot

15.141-2 "On the farther side under the railway bridge"

(this 'farther side' perplexes me. somehow, we're looking east on Talbot? but Bloom is on the south side of Talbot, so are we on the north??? or are we on the west side of Mabbot? Bloom has only missed seeing SD turn the corner by a matter of seconds. if Bloom indeed went one stop too far on the train (15.637 and notesheet Circe 11:64 "LB goes too far in train") then SD and Lynch have actually been dawdling, or even stopped (to eat?))

15.144, 15.150, 15.155, 15.168: [shops]

(evenly spaced along the west half of the south side of Talbot?)

15.149 "jollypoldy"

the two mirrors supply the traditional 'masks' of the theater, tragedy and comedy

15.154 "fish"

has the (Catholic) restaurant already switched to their Friday menu, before the stroke of midnight? (why are they open so late?)

15.158 "crubeen"

sheep = christian, pig = jewish, both = LB's mixed parentage?
cf "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" [Homer]

15.165 "siding"

coming out of Olhausen's, the siding is still ahead

15.168ff "Cormack's corner... the farther side of Talbot street"

LB hasn't crossed Talbot, the navvy is still among the crowd (slow progress!)

15.170 "brigade"

see 14.1570 for an earlier glimpse

15.171 "Big blaze"

cf "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" [Homer]

15.171 "Beggar's bush"

[map]

15.171 "his house"

Boylan's

15.174 "Talbot street"

we don't know if SD has rounded the corner of Tyrone yet
[live webcam]

15.185 "sandstrewer"

(does it really try to clean the tracks by strewing sand?)

15.193 "chains and keys"

(the switches for the siding are right at the intersection?)

15.195 "the hat trick"

three-of-anything-in-a-row [def]

15.199 "Close shave"

JAJ to Stannie, no-date: "Do you see that man who has just skipped out of the way of the tram? Consider, if he had been run over, how significant every act of his would at once become. I don't mean for the police inspector. I mean for anybody who knew him. And his thoughts, for anybody that could know them. It is my idea of the significance of trivial things that I want to give the two or three unfortunate wretches who may eventually read me." [e163]

15.200 "Sandow's"

the point here, i think, is that Bloom's solution is a personal effort, rather than the usual invention

15.201 "The Providential"

Selected Letters 272: "[Hermes] is an accident of providence."

15.203 "Leonard's corner"

near Raymond Terrace where Rudy was conceived.

15.207 "Lad lane"

just west of Beggar's bush, nearest LB residence was Holles street. the cramp may have been anxiety, if he was 'on the rocks'?

15.208 "Emblem of luck"

cattle droppings

15.212 "O'Beirne's wall"

this is across Mabbot from LB, now. the ragman, twins, dog, father, mother, wife, camel, and druggist all come before the bawd... but this need not mean any distance has been traversed.

15.216 "Buenas"

(where did LB learn Spanish? does he speak it anywhere else?)

15.220 "Gaelic league"

[overview] [history]

15.220 "fireeater"

the Citizen, presumably (Polyphemus and burning stake in eye?)
cf 'duelist'? [cite]

15.229 "stepsaside"

Gabler has "stepaside"

15.232 "Stepaside"

[map]

15.232 "lost my way"

[old pic]

15.233 "Irish Cyclist"

[passim]

15.233 "In darkest"

cf Stanley [pic]

15.235 "fence"

cf Enclosure Acts?

15.235 "First place"

a crossroads?

15.248 "bearded figure"

Rudolph appears because Bloom has turned corner into nighttown?

15.249 "elder in Zion"

cf? 1905 Protocols [info&pic] ditto ditto ditto

15.253 "Second halfcrown"

the first was for Martha Clifford, but what's the second? a halfcrown is 2/6, but the budget at 17.1470 says total for food is 12p (1/0) did he buy some drinks at the end of Oxen?

15.253 "goy"

thread: [password]

15.264 "All that's left of him."

cf Hamlet "What, is Horatio there? ...A piece of him." [etext]
cf? Stephen at 9.205 "Molecules all change"

15.270 "Waterbury"

[pic] [history] (see also HCE's meeting with the cad in FW [context]

15.271 "double curb"

[pic]

15.279 "Goim nachez"

cf 14.1526 "sheeny nachez"

15.288 "blay"

Dent finds "unbleached"

15.289 "Agnus Dei"

[Cath] [info]

15.290 "Sacred Heart of Mary"

[pic] [medal] [order]

15.305 "Welly?"

Rose 'corrects' this to 'Molly?' [Senn]

15.306 "cold feet waiting"

the wording is intentionally ambiguous between cold-feet-causing-waiting and cold-feet-caused-by-waiting

15.315 "innumerable rungs"

literary reference? (Jacob's ladder?)

15.325 "[ellipses]"

Gabler apparently follows Joyce in differentiating 3-2-5-4 dots (cf Beckett's essay-title in Exagmination?)

15.330 "See the wide world"

LB fears travel (unlike SD-- see the notesheets)

15.335 "south, then to the east"

why? east = rising sun, south Dublin = wealth/Protestant (vs north = poverty/Catholic). cf other references to SE Dublin: Beggar's bush, Lad lane, Leopardstown, Foxrock, Kingstown, etc see also 15.1469 for sun rising in northwest

15.359 "no one in it"

'cf PoA183, Davin's temptress: "Come in and stay the night here. You've no call to be frightened. There's no one in it but ourselves" PoA42 "Athy pointed across the playground to where Simon Moonan was walking by himself kicking a stone before him. --Ask him, he said. The fellows looked there and then said: --Why him? --Is he in it?"

15.384 "bottom drawer"

Dent finds connotation of 'trousseau'

15.388 "buckteeth"

(is Josie beautiful, or not?)

15.406 "this very sminute"

Gabler restores the 1922 version-- Josie being cute?

15.410 "Eugene Stratton"

[pic] [sheetmusic]

15.411 "Bohee"

[passim] ditto

15.420 "in the house"

did Joyce (alone) substitute 'house' for 'kitchen'?

15.431 "ruck"

?? [defs]

15.433 "square party"

Dent can't confirm G&S's 'wife swapping'

15.435 "gazelle"

Moore line 32 [etext]
cf Dickens [etext]

15.444 "Irving Bishop game"

Circe 1:30 "fingertips feel without touching (Irving Bishop)"
[macabre anecdote]

15.450 "masonic"

implies LB a Mason before his marriage, ie before his conversion to Catholicism
thread [password] ditto one more

15.462 "crackers"

[FAQ] [pic]

15.467 "witching hour"

cf Hamlet [etext]

15.487 "glad eye"

come-hither look (Dent)

15.492 "answer is a lemon"

approx 'is the pope catholic?' [cite]
is Josie playing with the saying to turn it into pucker-for-a-kiss?

15.499 "three ladies' hats"

at 6.59 it was only two

15.505 "Best value"

see 11.357

15.514 "flaming pronghorn"

cf 15.136

15.521 "deluthering"

Dent finds 'deluding others'

15.534 "Jewman's melt"

apparently the bawd can smell this on LB: ie, seminal emission motif:
U14.1480 "gluepot"
U15.3909 "omlet on the belly" U15.4509 "covered of gravy"

15.537 "Saint Andrew's cross"

[flag] (what is the fashion-symbolism, on a tie?)

15.540 "Milly was weaned"

a critical chronological landmark, referenced several other times [bio]

15.544 "Leopardstown"

[pic]

15.548 "fiveseater"

Molly, Poldy, Josie... Rogers and Maggot? Mrs Gallaher?

15.549 "Mrs Hayes"

according to E367, a nighttown madam?

15.565 "Gallaher's"

cf 18.1068

15.570 "Rogers"

"Paul Rogerson" in the first draft. perhaps a driver? (would LB know the drivers' names?)

15.578 "hellsgates"

cf Circe's sending Ulysses to visit Hades
'towards' implies he's still on Mabbot

15.580 "their... gaffer"

implies the loiterers are recently off work?

15.584 "crouches"

acting out defecation, not urination, then (though cf Penelope?)

15.587 "Derwan's plasterers "

Rose 'corrects' this to 'Kirwan's' [Senn]

15.585 "Beaver street"

vs Bloom's accident in Lad lane? (shortly, his will be relocated to Beaver). notesheets note: Beaver... lodges

15.596 "Glauber"

[def]

15.605 "gramophone"

JAJ to Budgen explains the gramophone is in the house opposite Bella's, to balance the pianola

15.606ff "shebeenkeeper"

this scene seems difficult. the navvy is helping the privates find a place to drink. the shebeenkeeper is directing them to his own place??? the navvy sings a rebel song, which the privates simply ignore?

15.633 "at fault"

how?

15.637 "Then too far"

cf notesheets Circe 11:64 "LB goes too far in train". but if he went one stop too far, how did he get back so quickly?

15.637 "engine behind"

so what?

15.639 "Second drink"

what did Bloom drink in Oxen?

15.640 "best of that lot"

cf Homeric note Circe 2:37 "Polites. Ul. Favourite"?

15.652 "birdseye"

this term is from Ware's dictionary of slang-- but what does it imply beyond the animal-motif?

15.686 "Kaw kave"

possibilities: I love, God save, he gave

15.692 "Give the paw."

see U12.489

15.700 "poor horse"

were trams drawn by horses before electricity? (the bridge is by Bloom's boyhood home, so this event may be very early)

15.733 "No fixed abode"

the 'Henry Flower' card either has no address, or the Westland row PO.

15.736 "alibi"

the Watch means 'alias'. cf 3.180, 17.686

15.746 "old Burgundy"

does this just mean aged wine?

15.749 "MERCURY"

why leading Martha?

15.754 "Clear my name!"

why is her name sullied?

15.762 "hatchet"

is this a detail from the Childs case?

15.765 "Peggy Griffin"

[etext]

15.770 "Shitbroleeth"

trans: 'ear of grain'
other readings: shitbreeches (15.770), shitfaced, Leith (14.1565)

15.777 "My wife, I am"

LB can't choose between the two lies, and ends up with an absurdity

15.793 "J.P."

see 17.1610n, also cf 3.106 (SD at Clongowes)

15.795 "Gough"

[pic]

15.797 "Jim Bludso"

[lyric&info] ditto

15.808 "Spanish onions"

cf 7.329 + 7.360???

15.811ff "[]"

the court has phoned Crawford to check LB's claim

15.812 "Paralyse Europe."

vs Hellenise Ireland. cf 7.628

15.813 "Bluebags"

here probably a barrister

15.819 "No, you aren't"

...bringing out a collection?

15.837 "jackdaw of Rheims"

[etext] (detection via curse)

15.857 "bachelor"

LB is hinting that the Wilde-like Beaufoy may be gay, but cf also Joyce's comment about Jesus being a lesser hero than Ulysses because he never lived with a woman

15.869 "my chances"

Dent: opportunity to marry well

15.881 "oylsters"

is there something more than illiteracy here?

15.887 "twict"

dialect 'twice' (Dent)

15.898 "water-lily"

now LB is Wilde [image]

15.910 "footplate"

what does this signify? (also cf SD in rain at 3.133)

15.916 "pensums"

pen-sums. cf Dumas "the days of pensums, ferules and crusts of dry bread" [cite]

15.919 "what times"

(is this a song lyric slipping in?)

15.928 "Get it out in bits."

see 11.586

15.941 "rag"

also a student newspaper?

15.954 "Mongolian"

[Khazar theory]

15.964 "two shilly"

LB's pigfoot was 4p

15.973 "daughter"

with 15.946 (and 906?), an innuendo of incest

15.985 "A penny in the pound"

cf 17.1939, but LB has no creditors??? (cf 2.251)

15.1019 "seen from the gods"

cf Byrne on the Gaiety: 'Joyce had the peculiar whim to sit at the extreme right of the top gallery (the gods). From this vantage point you looked down almost vertically on the players. I did not like the spot at all, but J was so childishly eager to sit there that, of course, I agreed to sit with him' [jfb66] Richie Goulding at 11.624 is described by Bloom as sitting in the gods as well.

15.1020 "Cigale"

either [etext-French] or [info]
if this is 'grasshopper' then does it symbolize the leisure of the wealthy?

15.1030 "Thornley Stoker's"

[old news]

15.1032 "edelweiss"

[pic&info] symbolism

15.1034 "blossom"

apparently white or purple [pix] [unlabelled-#2] [artsy] with white, this plus the blackness of the potato-talisman makes it the Homeric charm Moly (black root, white flower)
"The Potato blossom is the birthday flower for June 13th... Louis XVI of France wore potato flowers in his buttonhole" [FAQ]

15.1040 "Bluebeard"

[info]

15.1046 "Venus in furs"

[etext] summary background [Ellmann]

15.1061 "All Ireland"

cf [passim]

15.1064 "Don Juan"

[info]

15.1088 "Jack Latten"

"He danced from Castle Browne To Morristown" [background]

15.1129 "marble timepiece"

cf 17.1335

15.1138 "Jigjag"

Dent finds jigjig or jigajig plain old slang, not Mediterranean

15.1140ff

why these twelve jurors and not others?

15.1143 "Nameless"

cf Mangan [etext] mirror

15.1149 "Arse over tip"

head over heels (Dent) (no tip=head)

15.1153 "Jack the Ripper"

[fansite w/frames] [orig coverage] [info]

15.1170 "during His Majesty's pleasure"

(does this have another meaning than the suggestive one?)

15.1183 "Neck or nothing."

[def-scroll up?] ditto Dent: desperately

15.1188 "I saw."

what voyeurism, then?

15.1189 "Lewd chimpanzee."

presumably masturbating

15.1189 "Pelvic basin."

???

15.1202 "feet"

actually foot (plus trotter)

15.1232 "hard lines"

what does this mean? (cf 16.948)

15.1234 "A lamp."

why not a bucket? cf 15.3393

15.1246 "Overtones."

a notesheet note clarifies this is a reference to dogs' hearing higher pitches

15.1263 "Follow me up to Carlow"

[lyric&midi] lyric

15.1268 "piano"

SD has arrived at Bella's and gone straight to the piano

15.1269 "winging from their bowers"

(is this a specific literary allusion?)

15.1272 "micky"

one of Joyce's names for his cock, with Nora

15.1273 "Womwom"

probably woman, cf 11.129

15.1273 "Pirouette"

the kisses ask LB to turn towards them

15.1279 "sapphire slip"

Homer has Circe dressing in a beautiful light gossamer fabric fastened with a golden girdle

15.1285 "Mrs Mack's"

Gogarty [aiwgdss301] lists these nighttown names: 'Nora Seymour, Piano Mary, Dick Lynam [also 'King of the kips' at p89], Becky Cunniam, Teasey Ward, May Oblong, Mrs. Mack, Jem Plant, Maggie Arnott and Liverpool Kate'

15.1288 "her tipster"

named below (15.3084) as Charles Alberta Marsh
Circe 10:19 "Circe's Tiresias, her tipster" blue

15.1289 "son in Oxford"

like Hermes, Zoe gives LB the clue he needs to overpower Bella

15.1290 "luck's turned"

she's lost on the race, 15.2936

15.1318 "crystal"

crystal-gazing = fortunetelling

15.1321 "You'll know me next time."

cf "Take a picture, it'll last longer."

15.1323 "I never loved"

(did this lead to "I never saw a purple cow"?)

15.1324 "Gazelles..."

Circe 3:29 "Face transformed into landscape" slate, cf FW

15.1327 "womancity"

(isn't there a quote needed here, from the Song of Solomon itself?)

15.1329 "roses murmur of... grapes"

Zoe's lips, of LB's nuts?!?

15.1339 "goldstopped"

woman as musical instrument (cf 11.1089)

15.1340 "garlic"

moly again, here counteracting his sexual attraction

15.1340 "sepulchre"

Bishop finds a similar metaphor in the 'Ralph the retriever' passage in FW

15.1343 "caressing"

LB seems strangely familiar with the ways of nighttown...? mechanically: he's impotent from frig

15.1346 "No bloody fear!"

'emphatically not' [def] is she denigrating the Irish?

15.1350ff

this long 'messianic sequence' was added very late, August 1921

15.1353 "stump speech"

[RealAudio]

15.1357 "potato"

[history]

15.1361 "public life"

cf 15.853

15.1362 "midnight"

(is this the 'real' time?)

15.1364 "Turn again"

cf Pirouette above
LB has long since given up his parliamentary ambitions

15.1392 "laboursaving"

LB is being very hypocritical here

15.1400 "Mah Ttob..."

is Mayor LB welcoming the jews into Dublin? (cf 2.442)

15.1415f

are other major cities beside Belfast missing?

15.1419 "chapter of the saints of finance"

(is this a ringer?)

15.1426ff

at what point does the Mayoral fantasy segue into a royal one?

15.1439 "saint Stephen's"

is this LB, unsure which is his nation-- Ireland or Hungary?

15.1444 "curtana"

cf 16.816ff

15.1488 "Patrick, Andrew, David, George"

do these have a specific source?

15.1493 "Christ church"

[old pic] [pic]

15.1493 "St Patrick's"

[pix index]

15.1493 "gay Malahide"

why especially gay?

15.1500 "palfrey"

cf 12.1594

15.1507 "Selene"

[EB]

15.1509 "Black Maria"

prison van (Dent)

15.1525ff

LB resumes fantasy from 15.798?

15.1534 "James Stephens"

[]

15.1542ff

fantasy sequence: alderman -> mayor -> king -> emperor -> military hero (!?) -> messiah

15.1544 "the golden"

Jerusalem the Golden [RealAud] [GIF of music] [info]

15.1548 "crystal roof"

[]

15.1550ff

LB's head finally gets too big (cf FW)

15.1561 "M'Intosh"

elsewhere Macintosh and Mackintosh

15.1562 "fireraiser"

= arsonist, cf 14.1546 where Macintosh passes, just before fire breaks out in the neighborhood he's come from. mindcontrol trick of accusing another of your own crime

15.1571 "preservatives"

is this really a term for condoms? cf 15.1952

15.1578ff

the 12 worst books ought to correspond to Ulysses' 12 adventures (Calypso thru Circe). some seem clearcut:
50 Meals = Lestrygonians
Who's Who in Space = Wandering Rocks
Songs that Reached Our Heart = Sirens
Care of the Baby = Nausikaa
others seem likely:
Froggy and Fritz = Cyclops
Expel that Pain = Oxen
Love Letters of Mother Assistant = Lotus (or Calypso?)
but that leaves several.

15.1579 "7/6"

extremely expensive, if that the price for each

15.1591 "Little father!"

i think Nabokov complains somewhere that the Esperanto for 'mother' is 'little father'.

15.1594 "for Leo alone"

he bought the meat, bread and chocolate for himself (cf 15.311, more explicitly a lie in the first draft)

15.1602 "Bopeep!"

is this really from a peekaboo game?

15.1617 "tear in"

why 'in'?

15.1619 "ram's horns"

to clarify: one shofar = one ram's horn

15.1624 "Mazzoth"

plural of mazzah

15.1631 "doubles"

some sort of puzzle?

15.1642 "bound over"

(is this terminology appropriate?)

15.1645 "Peter O'Brien"

(cf G&S's value judgment here with 12.190n, where he's called Peter the Packer for packing juries?!? G&S seem to have an unscholarly sympathy for the British...)

15.1662 "uniform"

cf 7.540? the idea that it's a prison uniform seems ludicrous in context, and Haynau was hardly sainted!

15.1665 "Pansies"

cf pensees (didn't someone write a book with this pun as the title? Gertrude Stein, maybe?)

15.1671 "thinking"

this superstition sounds farfetched to me, but cf 12.1657. maybe just paying extra bills?

15.1678 "CROFTON"

see 6.247n, 12.1589ff

15.1685 "plain ten commandments"

why plain?

15.1691/93 "universal language with... free rent"

these two phrases restored by Gabler, by an 'eyeskip' argument

15.1697 "[yawn]"

cf 8.970

15.1735 "VEILED SIBYL"

(who, why?)

15.1768 "again"

why 'again'?

15.1777 "bedlock"

cf 14.855

15.1781 "metal teeth"

cf 17.1564

15.1795 "COSTELLO"

see 14.853ff for LB on Punch Costello (a Caliban figure?)

15.1802 "court missionary"

what is this?

15.1808 "Glencree"

the Glencree dinner is another landmark seen from many angles (cf parallax), and therefore possibly a crisis-point. [bio] see JAJ's note to Nora ca Dec 1904 (I think) in Pola for a possible clue from Joyce's own life.

15.1809 "most sacred word"

"baby"?

15.1821 "eight male yellow and white children"

a litter of kittens? (yellow and white = gold and silver)

15.1829 "positions of trust"

cf 15.249n

15.1838 "Father Charles"

(didn't somebody track him down in the JJQ a few years back?)

15.1840 "Saint Leger"

(who did win this race, actually?)

15.1841 "covers left eye"

cf 8.768

15.1841 "walks on a net"

???

15.1844 "king's evil"

cf 15.41 scrofulous

15.1845 "Beaconsfield"

why is JAJ avoiding 'Disraeli' here? the note fails to mention he was Prime Minister, nor his position on the Ireland question.

15.1846 "Wat Tyler"

Gifford's 'ill-starred' is rather lame-- he got Richard II to make concessions and was tricked and assassinated for his trouble. i can't believe anyone knows what he looked like, though... cf 9.248?

15.1847 "Henry Irving"

[memoir] [pix]

15.1849 "turns each foot"

??? Circe 12:26 "Head R foot L (O.W.)" Oscar Wilde
cf Book of Kells

15.1854 "brown paper"

cf 16.1189, 15.1572

15.1860 "Weiss"

E393 explains Oscar Schwarz introduced Ottocaro Weiss to JAJ

15.1863 "O'Donnell"

Circe 12:32 "Moly = escape from prison" blue

15.1868 "vocabitur nomen"

his name will be called

15.1870-2001 "A DEADHAND... Laughing witch!"

image of Driver's marked up 1922 showing changes from ms

15:1871 "cod"

Dent finds very broad usage, but not 'joker'

15.1880 "three tears"

Circe 17:37 "witch 3 tears from left eye"

15.1885 "asses' ears"

cf Cyclops 4:119 "Haines = ear of world SD = Horace's deaf donkey"

15.1888 "caper"

cf the 'ridda' in Dante's 4th Circle (mentioned on Linati schema for Circe)

15.1898 "Azazel"

Azazel is the devil, not the goat itself

15.1903 "defile"

a note clarifies that this means 'piss on'

15.1911 "eleven shillings"

cf Kino's price to buy a pair, at 8.90?

15.1914-1917: vanished in Gabler-1986, moved (?) to 15.4506

DON EMILE PATRIZIO FRANZ RUPERT POPE HENNESSY (in medieval hauberk, two wild geese volant on his helm, appears and, with noble indignation, disowns Bloom) Put down your eyes to footboden, big grand pig of Jude all covered with gravy!

15.1918 "shepherd"

Joyce notes somewhere that a figure of a shepherd carrying a sheep over his shoulders is called 'crioforo' (sp?)

15.1922 "Nip"

Dent doesn't find 'cheat'

15.1925 "Pflaap"

see 14.1569

15.1928 "highpointed hat"

dunce or wizard?

15.1928 "bag of gunpowder"

???

15.1941

the xref to 17.487n seems mistaken. try 17.2044ff

15.1946 "Wandering Soap"

why is this under Scylla???

15.1956 "carbonised"

how does LB's loss of the potato cause him to turn into it?

15.1957 "ZOE"

the elapsed time for the 'messianic scene' is apparently only an instant (beginning at 15.1353)

15.1960ff

i think the key to this speech is the Thomas Moore lyric [etext] quoted at 12.161n. Bloom speaks of the 'beating' he's suffered with a smile in his eye, and of the various human ideals with a tear.

15.1962 "Let me be going..."

cf also 9.558n

15.1963 "I'm after having"

Dent: in the act of, or about to, desirous of (not past tense!)

15.1964 "sorrow for the dead"

see 10.1037

15.1965 "future of the race"

see 14.832 (Patriotism and music might be Cyclops and Sirens, of course.)

15.1965 "Life's dream is o'er"

song title

15.1968 "I have lived."

quote? cf 11.1275n

15.1970ff

the emotions are mercurial through here

15.1970 "Honest?"

what has Zoe heard? his farewell?

15.1971 "wrong side"

cf 4.233 (came too quick = Nausikaa?)

15.1983 "Hog's Norton"

Dent rejects organist story, rather: clownishly rustic

15.1983 "Yorkshire born"

so not literally Hog's Norton (or did she move there later?)
Dent: implication of cheating

15.1985 "Tittlemouse"

cf 15.1295

15.1985 "short time"

Dent: slang for a single fuck w/whore

15.1993 "unparalleled"

cf 7.167

15.2012 "passtouch"

significantly, her sign of warning affects him like a lure

15.2019 "ramping"

rearing on their hind legs (cf heraldic 'rampant')

15.2019 "loosebox"

Dent: spacious horse-stall, or lady's carriage

15.2020 "drugged"

not the crew, but the wolves and lions Circe has tamed

15.2025 "Don't fall"

the note fits the event, but not Zoe's reply in particular

15.2047ff

various clues allow the room to be at least partly reconstructed: Stephen at the piano has his back to both the door and Lynch at the fireplace. Lynch with his back to the fireplace faces Kitty on the table who can see herself in the mirror over the fireplace. Lynch can see Bloom at the door. A window must face the street and the gramophone opposite. Florry on the sofa is beside Stephen at the piano. (cf mirrors on mantel in Ithaca)

15.2049 "back to front"

Circe 5:63 "Head front human, back animal" blue

15.2050 "Kitty"

Ellmann's 'identifications' are entirely farfetched. but this Kitty ought to be the same Lynch describes at 14.1143ff (whom we saw at 10.200)

15.2050 "navy costume"

maybe navy-colored, but probably a sailor suit (see 15.2060)

15.2055 "couple"

Stephen and Florry, certainly. the other 'couples' are LB and Zoe, and Lynch and Kitty. but doesn't Florry seem like an odd match for SD? wouldn't he go more for witty Zoe???

15.2057 "imbecillic"

Florry

15.2066 "ails it"

Circe's power is being challenged for the first time, by Ulysses

15.2073 "two fingers"

one on each hand (it's too wide unless he used his thumb)

15.2073 "Florry"

Zoe, Kitty, Florry, and Bella may represent the four 'humors'

15.2079 "horsed"

???

15.2087ff

only a few minutes have passed since SD spoke of structural rhythms at 15.107

15.2087 "found it or made it"

(cf Gifford on 'the leg of the duck' (15.44n) etc)

15.2088 "The rite is the poet's rest."

maybe: 'the poet's responsibility ends when the rite is right'?

15.2089 "susceptible"

(susceptible how?)

15.2090 "mixolydian"

Herring thinks this ought to say 'mixOLDyian', a purposeful 'typo'. i'm skeptical, based on what i can see of the documents.
Phrygian and Lydian embody the wild and the tame (Circe/Calypso)

15.2092 "tip from the stable"

wealthy/tame

15.2092 "David"

cf interesting compilation of quotes about music in the church

15.2093 "alrightness"

'gloriam'?

15.2093 "nom de nom"

surely there's more to this than G&S's "by George"

15.2097 "It is because it is."

so has Lynch really been actively participating in the argument?

15.2097 "Woman's reason."

cf Molly's contradictions in U18?
Dent finds "ladies' reason" a conventional dismissal of 'because it is'

15.2098 "Extremes meet."

cf later: Aug23 2.11 "Extremes head + tail meet"

15.2098 "Death [etc]"

see E95, JAJ's paper on Mangan, 1 Feb 1902.

15.2115 "gramophone"

in the kip opposite, according to JAJ's letter to Budgen (but why is it playing a hymn???)

15.2115 "The Holy City"

[RealAudio] lyrics

15.2117ff

Circe 7:102 "SD begins long sentence + forgets start" so i suspect he's lost the train of his argument about modes and intervals, substitutiing one about comets, ellipses, and commercial travellers. but maybe there's a way to connect them. my reading of the latter argument is that a person who tries to flee their subconscious instead finds it writ large everywhere they turn, until they make peace with it.

15.2121 "Ecco!"

also echo. the Linati schema makes 'homonym' one of the symbols for Wandering Rocks. (cf sun/son above?)

15.2129 "last day"

Florry has picked up on SD's words "ultimate return"?

15.2137 "newsboys"

see 7.444

15.2140 "rockinghorse races"

maybe: everybody kids themselves they know the criteria god judges by, but they might as well be racing rockinghorses

15.2142 "Stephen turns"

ie, LB = Antichrist at this moment?

15.2144 "A time..."

(but what does it mean?)

15.2145 "Reuben"

cf 15.1918 (recent)

15.2181 "Wha'll dance"

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

15.2181 "keel row"

G&S should explain the lyric: a keel is a coal barge on the river Tyne

15.2185 "vergerfaced"

as if carrying the staff of office before the officer (Elijah before Jesus)?

15.2188 "ELIJAH"

West - America - philistine - energetic - peptalk

15.2189ff

these barked orders are like Mulligan's on the first page

15.2189 "Creole Sue"

[RealAud] (what's the song's storyline?)

15.2189 "Dave Campbell"

Gabler claims 'Dove'

15.2191 "trunk line"

the dictionary says telephone line, and JAJ used 'trunks' this way in Mamalujo in 1923. but there seems to be a railroad motif here, perhaps to contrast the rockinghorse image?

15.2191 "Tell mother"

[RealAud]

15.2192 "slick ace"

a good thing?

15.2195 "Coney Island"

there were religious works written c1910 on 'If Christ Came to Coney Island [Chicago, whatever]'

15.2195f

Elijah also pairs these 'couples' in the standard way

15.2197 "cold feet"

cf 15.257, 15.307

15.2198 "prism"

15.451, 15.3988. associated in notes with Deasy.

15.2200 "nobble"

[def] cheat, steal, or drug a horse so it loses.

15.2201 "back number"

Dent: a has-been

15.2207 "sunphone"

cf 3.39's navelphone?

15.2213 "THE THREE WHORES"

the three weird sisters? (Macbeth)

15.2216 "black"

nothing to do with Eugene Stratton (white) ...surely?

15.2220 "wusser"

worser

15.2222 "save"

cf Oxen 5:24 "Jesus Christ save Mary Magdalene (Mac)"

15.2225 "KITTY-KATE"

she takes a new name?

15.2228 "brown scapular"

[info]

15.2230 "ZOE-FANNY"

Fanny Hill?

15.2232 "FLORRY-TERESA"

???

15.2238 "beatitudes"

cf 14..1458ff

15.2249ff

Eglinton = east/mystical/pacifist, Elijah = west?

15.2249 "lizardlettered"

???

15.2249 "yellow"

cf 15.1927n, also high hat, also 15.961ff

15.2254 "Yeats... Keats"

cf Best at 9.524

15.2273 "its cooperative dial"

???

15.2277 "strangles the light"

cf 2.361

15.2288 "pot"

but why 'the'? one still suspects this is marijuana (Dent hasn't found 'quick drink' apparently)

15.2304 "Lipoti Virag"

thread: [password] ditto
the first draft started to write 'Henry Flower' here. both are introduced as Bloom's doubles. see 1.158n for a plausible correspondence: Virag = Hebraic, Flower = Hellenic.
cf Cyclops 10:11 "the jew hates the jew in the jew"
also, more certainly: Circe 2:94 "twofaced. LB looks at girl's rump"

15.2306 "pink stilts"

a wading bird

15.2306 "brown macintosh"

the first draft adds SD's hat and Mulligan's vest

15.2309 "two quills"

Hermes' winged feet?

15.2312 "Virag"

LB has seen Virag's photo-- 17.1875-- but never met him, most likely, so he has to introduce himself.

15.2316 "injection mark"

not vaccination (on shoulder, 15.4031). pox? drug addict?

15.2320 "coiffeuse white"

her hair is henna-red! her hairdresseress is white???

15.2321 "gopherwood"

henna is a tree (or shrub) in the middle east

15.2327 "lean"

so why staysed?

15.2331 "gull.. mulcted"

gullible person cheated

15.2332 "dustspecks"

cf Kitty smoothing her eyebrows?

15.2333 "Never put on"

obsessed with fashion?

15.2335 "Pollysyllabax"

using big words to win arguments?

15.2339 "draws down"

gesture means, the con is on?

15.2340 "flapper"

anachronism?

15.2341 "Lily of the alley"

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

15.2342 "Tumble"

Ophelia's speech

15.2342 "Columble"

in context, more like 'abandon her'? flee like a dove?

15.2342 "Chameleon"

LB can cheat her because she's cheating him?

15.2345 "oxygenated vegetable matter"

peroxided hair

15.2346 "longcasted"

long face?

15.2348 "without your gun"

impotent due to frig (or missing condom?!)

15.2350 "mild, medium, or strong"

Zoe, Kitty, or Florry?

15.2351 "How happy"

[lyric&midi] [info]

15.2353 "With...?"

ruling out poxy Zoe?

15.2355 "Lyum"

Leo in Hungarian?

15.2359 "lower down"

Circe 8:04 "dug on broad of back" !

15.2361 "coopfattened"

cf 15.2074 'goosefat'

15.2362 "bread"

cf Goulding's pills?

15.2363 and various: Virag knows many drugs and charms (cf note in Greek, Circe 2:106)

15.2365 "Fleshhotpots"

original meaning food not sex

15.2366 "Lycopodium"

a moss. meaning: 'wolf foot'

15.2366n: what is 'Gladstone's port'?

15.2373 "Eve's sovereign remedy"

an apple a day? (Eve chose to know...)

15.2376 "shall have... will have"

because this is their first meeting?

15.2379 "searching ordeal"

rather an exaggeration?

15.2380 "chapter of accidents"

especially: suicide-talk in Hades, running into BB everywhere, fight with Citizen?

15.2400 "religious problem"

Stannie attributes this plan to Skeffington

15.2404 "derisively"

Hebraic = anti-esthete

15.2412 "prompts"

in the first draft, LB repeats Virag's whisper

15.2427 "Charley"

(is Virag being channeled by Zoe in some way???)

15.2434 "Bubbly jock"

Scots for turkey (Dent)

15.2446 "analogy to my idea"

???

15.2448 "omnivorous forest"

deciduous? eating everything? offering every sort of food?

15.2451ff: what magic is this? (cf hypnotic roman idiom in FW III.4, re Honuphrius's sins)

15.2477 "pretty pretty"

[def]

15.2478 "left upper entrance"

so where are we, the audience, situated? looking thru the front window???

15.2479 "Henry Flower"

among 1904 Dubliners, this is probably closest to depicting Yeats

15.2484 [midpoint of chapter, lines-wise]

15.2497 "Deasy"

Eumeus 6:123 "Telem doesn't thank Nestor" slate

15.2504 "Ci rifletta."

cf 10.351

15.2506 "song"

cf 15.1720 recent

15.2512 "Philip Drunk... Sober"

wild, tame

15.2523ff: Circe 1:83 "SD drunk remember somethg smby told, not know what reader also not" green

15.2524 "Zoe mou"

Byron's 'Maid of Athens' [GIF of music] [info]

15.2531 "weak"

LB can't sin, SD can't sing, neither fit the intent of the proverb

15.2538 "have you the book"

masonic formula, perhaps?

15.2548 "Penrose"

priestlylooking voyeur

15.2549 "Woman, undoing "

cf? Circe notesheet: "Artist: make plays of incidents"

15.2558 "shooting a bishop"

Dent's refs suggest 'frigging'

15.2561 "connection"

c1908 Trieste notebook: "Esthetic: Pornography fails because whores are bad conductors of emotion." -> Circe 6:73 "whores bad conductors"

15.2566 "Only for what happened him."

???

15.2573 "two left feet"

Dent finds always means clumsy dancer

15.2573 "Lybian"

Gabler has Libyan now

15.2573 "pope's bastard"

rather unlikely, given the dates!

15.2583 "le sacre pigeon"

bloody, not sacred (adj before noun)

15.2583ff: drunk/grave, sober/gay, cf 15.1960ff

15.2599 "whitewax"

see 5.493

15.2600 "genitories"

genitals + genitor + ??? (something religious?)

15.2601 "fork"

Dent drily rejects 'penis'

15.2603 "Hek"

also 15.2268 (cf FW's occasional HEC's)

15.2604ff: Dollard = Citizen (12.152ff) + priest (1.690)

15.2616 "Hold"

cf 10.905f

15.2620 "severed head"

cf face on Jacob's-pipe; cf 1900 Dublin murderer Henry Flower (see Costello's JJ-bio). cf Edgar Allen Poe?

15.2628 "Steered"

cf 7.40

15.2636 "unscrews his head"

in Homer's Circe, Ulysses considers beheading his cowardly relative Eurylochus

15.2641 "preferred"

why?

15.2660 "corkscrew"

is this what 'Monks of the Screw' originally referred to?

15.2654 "primate... simian"

are we vaguely climbing the evolutionary tree, thruout this chapter?

15.2671 "O, the poor little fellow"

[lyric&midi] ditto [lyric] lyric

15.2679 "hoky fiddle"

the derivation at 5.362n goes well with fiddle = con game

15.2687 "merciful male"

earlier versions included the expected comma between these

15.2688 "shall carry"

Circe 19:87 "Si. D. sings in house he leaves - Shall carry my heart to thee"

15.2697 "male form"

Bella's client, Charles Alberta Marsh or the Chancery fellow

15.2702 "rabbits"

the notes/ first draft don't explain this, but they eliminate the chance it has to do with the male form, or the smell of LB's hair. cf Nausikaa 1:23 "LB chocolate present" (seems to be the event Zoe is replying to)

15.2710 "French lozenges"

???

15.2711 "Have it now..."

Dent: teasing someone who's impatient

15.2717 "bazaar"

if this is Lynch's own Kitty, she's had a very busy day

15.2719 "hobbyhorses"

rockinghorse-race motif

15.2724 "master"

it seems unlikely LB could have been a masonic master, given his current reduced circumstances?

15.2736 "bought"

Gabler restores 'bought' for 'thought'. LB is wondering if the chocolate might be drugged, quite bizarre since he's only just handed it to her.

15.2739 "be merry"

cf SD at 15.2094

15.2740 "That priest. Must come."

is this a turningpoint, LB recovering his life due to Virag's cynicism towards the priest? or due to SD's self-liberation?

15.2743 "threequarter"

missing the top quarter, ie bare shoulders?

15.2744 "fan"

[pic]

15.2745 "Hauck"

could JAJ have seen her, later in her life?

15.2746 "keeper rings"

cf zookeeper, slavekeeper, etc

15.2748 "orangetainted nostrils"

drugs?!?

15.2748 "beryl"

bluegreen, but is there an emotional symbol too?

15.2750 "mucksweat"

from wild sex

15.2757 "Partly, I have mislaid..."

??? his wedding ring?

15.2766ff

LB hears his hallucinations with flustered ears

15.2768 "dreamed"

the shared LB/SD dream

15.2773 "which women love"

LB still feels dominant?

15.2781 "draught"

rationalizing why he closed the door?

15.2785 "David"

cf 15.2092, also maybe David = Argos?

15.2786 "spittle"

the notes show it's the healing properties LB intends cf 15.2302

15.2789 "Mocking"

Dent confirms proverb

15.2789 "Best value"

cf 11.357, 15.505

15.2806/14 "Kellett's... Manfield's"

Gabler again. JAJ had Kellet's and Mansfield's. we simply don't know if he intended the slips, so we shouldn't meddle.

15.2807 "knot"

Book of Kells

15.2807 "once before"

see 6.587

15.2814 "love's young dream"

Thomas Moore [GIF of music] [info]

15.2816 "impossibly small"

cf 3.449

15.2817 "wax model"

cf goddesses in Museum

15.2833 "Awaiting..."

cf 15.392!?

15.2843 "Dungdevourer"

cf [who?] in PoA

15.2845 "Magmagnificence"

volcanic magma?

15.2867 "lot"

Dent finds 'male genitals'

15.2868 "shame it"

what 'it'?

15.2902 "turning turtle"

[def]

15.2914 "after hitting"

cf 15.1963

15.2944 "cockhorse"

rockinghorse motif

15.2944 "Eclipse stakes"

near London. eclipse motif?

15.2980 "Alice"

not Liddell, but Mrs Jumbo-the-elephant, here LB's cock (elephant trunk) (Mary and Martha are his testicles)

15.2991 "domino"

a black mask with hood/cape?!?

15.3004 "Sheridan, the quadroon Croesus"

Herring thinks the original was "Sheridan the quadroon, Croesus" but does this help identify Sheridan?

15.3010 "Vice Versa"

JAJ starred on 28 May 1898, but there's also an earlier play with this title by Boucicault, to reconcile the anachronism?

15.3024 "Doran's ass"

[lyric&midi] [lyric] ditto

15.3024 "jinkleman"

jink = cheat

15.3024 "swaddles"

see 12.1631n

15.3024 "By the ass"

what does this mean as an oath? (the bestiality motif is toned down from the first draft, where Zoe hints she had sex with a dog)

15.3029 "Black Church"

[info] Gabler has 'Black church' (the implication is that Black Masses are performed there)

15.3036 "vitriol works"

sulphur-smelling. they're much closer to JAJ's teenage homes in Fairview than any of Bloom's. also vitriol = anger.

15.3039 "gingerbread and a postal order"

cf 15.1104. unless he'd met her like Martha, by mail, he'd pay cash.

15.3042 "Puke it out!"

abreaction of repressed memory as therapy ( -> Bloom's egg-request?)

15.3046 "Larry rhinoceros"

earlier version capitalized rhinoceros. 11.260n say 'rhino' is ready money, and Molly says O'Rourke's was easy money, but the "pun" is no pun at all, unless it refers to his appearance? the figure executed in Cyclops is called Larry (12.543). see also 4.112n. (if one accepts that there are solvable riddles in Ulysses, this seems a significantly-placed potential clue)

15.3046 "the girl"

Gerty? (earlier versions ended "the other, the...")

15.3049 "Pleasants street"

i'd suggest Raleigh's "Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom" as a better startingplace for a close reading of Ulysses than Gifford, actually, though it's equally flawed. doublechecking the various 'parallax points' like the Glencree dinner or Milly's weaning gives a very new perspective on the text. but Raleigh's reconstruction of the sequence of the Blooms' addresses makes no sense, probably because it relies on LB's dates in Ithaca (all strangely falsified) rather than Molly's sequence at 18.1216. Molly omits Pleasants entirely, where Raleigh would give it 1888- 1892. i side with Molly, and attribute this reference either to a visit where something took place (rerere-entry?), or just a localization of their 'mutual faith'.

15.3049 " I only thought the half of the..."

(someone please complete this thought!)

15.3082 "colonel"

colonel Hayes? (15.4356)

15.3083 "wedding"

Bella and Ruby Bloom Cohen's?

15.3084 "Charles Alberta Marsh"

a vet, a race tipster, Bella's Tiresias [1850 jeweller]

15.3085 "just now"

but only one of the two has left (15.2034)?

15.3086 "Petty Bag office"

so is Bella's a swank house, for wellplaced clients?

15.3086 "at a short knock"

without much notice? see 4.62n?

15.3103 "Fourteen hands"

4'8" compared to Bloom's 5'9", so perhaps measured like a horse, only to the shoulder?

15.3103 "shis... hrim"

Gabler improves earlier versions which had 'his' and 'him'

15.3104 "gold piercer"

??? an s&m toy?

15.3106 "stockgetter"

???

15.3106 "within the hour"

see 15.3710!

15.3107 "forty weeks"

human pregnancy, cf Molly with Milly?

15.3117 "emeraldgartered"

Mary Driscoll's present, not Molly's (violet) see 15.877 (cf the maroon/ green motif in PoA?)

15.3120 "fluescent"

??? flowing? velvety?

15.3129 "teapot"

cf 15.457f (Dent doesn't find in published Partridge, suggests genitals not just penis)

15.3130 "cockyolly"

probably four syllables. Dent finds only 'cockyolly bird'

15.3131 "pooly"

cf 13.76

15.3137 "tables are turned"

Boylan rearranging the furniture

15.3139 "muff"

female pubic triangle

15.3146 "Hundred pounds"

just the bid from the Caliph's agent?

15.3149 "lame duck"

officeholder whose replacement is already established

15.3149 "want not"

earlier versions had the desired comma here

15.3151 "We... Still..."

why the caps???

15.3162 "Mat Dillon's"

cf 13.1103, 6.484 as well

15.3160 "fingertipping"

Circe 1:30 "fingertips feel without touching (Irving Bishop)" cf 15.444

15.3175 "menfriends"

Penelope's suitors

15.3175 "Cuckoos'"

the cuckoos are the lovers, occupying a stranger's nest, not the cuckold

15.3178 "Turn about"

Dent: ...is fair play

15.3184 "Moll the romp"

Moll Flanders?

15.3188 " pipespills"

twisted paper to light pipes

15.3194 "Swear"

cf Hamlet [etext]

15.3195 "bowieknife"

James Fenimore Cooper, now?

15.3202 "All Ireland"

cf 15.1061

15.3202 "bites his thumb"

anxiety, or the curse-gesture?

15.3205n: Bella here is offering a (figurative) cup of hemlock

15.3208 "Cohen"

so might Bella's maiden name have been other than Cohen? cf later: Apr23 A-Eolus 70 "the jew said to his 1st cousin (wife)"

15.3215 "willpower! Memory!"

Joyce's notes treat these psychological categories respectfully, generally

15.3221 "M. Shulomowitz, ...M. Moisel, J. Citron, ...P. Mastiansky, the Reverend Leopold Abramovitz, chazen"

Rose 'corrects' this to 'I. M. Shmulowitz, ...N. Moisel, I. Citron, ...J. Masliansky, the Reverend A.L. Abramovitz, chazan' [Senn]

15.3232 "suttee"

MB pays for LB's sins?

15.3235 "yews"

depicted in the nymph painting?

15.3240 "Dost not weepest"

solecism

15.3245 "highkickers"

cf 13.1004?

15.3242 "crawls jellily"

probably to suggest an old seal, based on a note

15.3256 "Neverrip"

presumably not condoms

15.3263 "tinsel"

(!)

15.3275f

it looks to me like LB got only the ad for Wonderworker, not the product, which seems to be for people who can't even bear to fart audibly in their own homes

15.3279 "my dictionary"

cf 15.2594

15.3288 "wrongside up with care"

some fetish activity of LB's. cf also HCE vignette

15.3289 "Gibraltar"

if LB is wrong about this (18.1213) then might "old Cohen" be in Dublin, even Bella's father?

15.3299 "Poulaphouca"

(anachronism: Jimmy Stewart's Harvey was a pooka)

15.3311 "Scared"

his secrets are slipping out

15.3322 "pricelist"

(!)

15.3323 "sunspots"

1883 and 1881 had significant maxima in August [data] but this echoes 8.568 about Lombard street so it may hint at something from Aug 1893

15.3331 "Mackerel"

G&S's glosses seem farfetched. wall-eyed? 2.362?

15.3334 "sixteen"

everything indicates LB was 14 when he left high school

15.3354 "flowers that bloom"

Gilbert and Sullivan [GIF of music] [info]

15.3354 "Capillary attraction"

causes sap to rise

15.3373 "Regularly engaged."

???

15.3374 "Press nightmare."

ie, public disgrace?

15.3374 "Giddy Elijah"

being carried to heaven in a whirlwind???

15.3386 "alpaca, yellowkitefaced"

see 7.131, 135, 445?

15.3392n

the Ruskin anecdote is apocryphal, i believe

15.3394 "forefinger in her mouth"

Circe 19:110-111 "Lucia finger in mouth hesitates to buy"

15.3395 "Spoke to me. Heard from behind."

???

15.3411ff

Kitty requests a pillow from the sofa, Florry throws it, Lynch catches it and comments it's hot (only Florry is not 'in' the thicket???) (Dent finds phrase is from Swift's Polite Coversation, as are many of Zoe's, where it seems to be a tea=urine joke!)

15.3422 "Ware"

cf 14.1566. or 'wary' as elsewhere?

15.3424ff: cf 15.3016ff

15.3434 "Eyeless... with remote eyes"

cf 12.1719 St Lucy?

15.3441 "Bip!"

Moly = a sense of the ridiculous (Selected Letters 272)

15.3449 "You have broken the spell."

by claiming to be free of desire???

15.3451 "Shy but willing like an ass pissing."

ass, not arse? cf U.P. Up???

15.3463 "seizes her hand"

Hermes instructs Ulysses to threaten Circe with his sword. JAJ reverses this here.

15.3464 "fox and the grapes"

ie, castrating nun

15.3465 "not thick enough"

for frigging

15.3466 "lame gardener"

stock character in pornography?

15.3466 "spoutless"

castrated??? (JAJ was an Aquarius-- 2 Feb)

15.3467 "Alphonsus"

(i think nuns sometimes take male names)

15.3468ff

her power was all 'mindcontrol' which LB has freed himself from

15.3470 "Poli..."

Police?

15.3472 "jerks"

orgasms? frigs?

15.3473 "multiple mucosities"

nasal and genital?

15.3473 "I tried it."

abstinence?

15.3473 "Your strength our weakness."

woman's sexuality?

15.3481 "know me the next time."

again, LB has been staring for a few seconds, since about 15.2743 (cf 15.1321)

15.3483ff: Moly = fastidiousness in some detail (SL272)

15.3486 "dimensions"

what beauty she has is only skin deep

15.3487 "triple screw"

cf Bella + Marsh + Chancery?

15.3489 "You're not game"

makes some sense, if read as closely following 15.2770 or so

15.3492 "nailless"

for sex/frig

15.3492 "your bully's"

Marsh's?

15.3494 "I know you"

how?

15.3496 "Dead cod"

Dent doesn't find G&S's impotent

15.3498 "I saw him"

her bully? at 15.2035?

15.3502 "cornflowers"

Dent doesn't find G&S 'slang'

15.3503 "cat's ramble"

just random banging (Lynch's joke about Beethoven has been dropped since the first draft)

15.3507 [the first draft breaks off here, and resumes with scattered sketches]

15.3511 "fine... superfine"

what will LB lose?

15.3533 "sow's ear"

still pretending he sold a poem (11.265)

15.3535 "same sweepstake"

cf the (socialist) gospel parable about the worker who came late

15.3545 "Delightedly"

SD likes giving money away

15.3546 "brevi manu"

without much ado

15.3565 "half sovereign"

when does Bella get her cut?

15.3568 "Come!"

this Kitty isn't giving Lynch any freebies

15.3581 "get out of heaven"

fox digging up grandma?

15.3586 "slyboots"

what's so shrewd??? (Dent doubts G&S's 'apparently simple')

15.3592 "This is yours."

LB has paid his own way. so does he intend to go with Florry? or is he just avoiding more awkwardness?

15.3599 "Lucifer"

is LB still Antichrist? (JAJ saw himself more as Lucifer/Prometheus than Christ, by 1904)

15.3607 [money]

1p + 6p + 4p? + 5s + 1s (were there 4p coins?)

15.3609 "Proparoxyton"

eleven is the second hour from the last?

15.320 "Georgina Johnson"

on 03Jun 1904 Joyce wrote to Gogarty at Oxford, presumably referring to nighttown whores: "I suppose Jenny is leaving in a day or so. I shall call to say farewell and adieu... I have a rendezvous with Annie Langton." [SL21]

15.3620 "married"

SD hasn't had the cash to visit since his last payday, 16 May (or 2 June?)

15.3625 "better chance"

these seems a likely parable, of pragmatism

15.3629 "Broke them yesterday."

the PoA pandying was probably 7 Feb 1889, so this claim is mysterious. JAJ himself had not re-begun wearing glasses yet, in 1904. (eg, the note to Nora, 15 June)

15.3631 "Sphinx."

Gifford's note seems entirely unhelpful here.

15.3644 "eat"

where's LB's sodabread?

15.3655 "gimlet"

when was the drink invented?

15.3656 "Blue eyes"

earlier versions said Blue eye'd

15.3657 "wrinkles"

there's a wrinkles-motif thruout the book

15.3657n: Circe 5:73 makes it clear that Zoe is counting wrinkles, not hand-mounts. 1-Saturn is prudence, 2-Jupiter is volupcy, and 3-Mars is courage.

15.3663/6 "see it in your face... Pandybat"

Zoe and Lynch read SD's mind? (Lynch didn't go to Clongowes, did he? but SD might have told him the story...)
pandybat: [pic]

15.3667ff: mysterious note Circe 3:33 "Artist: make plays of incidents"

15.3681 "criminal"

why? (also, rings of sliced fish = whorls?)

15.3696 "Read mine"

LB sacrifices self

15.3698 "for the women"

???

15.3701 "Gridiron."

Circe 5:47ff has palmistry notes with interpretations. elsewhere notes like "gridiron hand" (Circe 2:127) include no interpretation, so Joyce's readings may be fanciful, even Zoe's hoaxing.

15.3707 "rooster hatching"

hatching from an egg, or hatching an egg?

15.3707 "chalked circle"

a trick for trapping chickens, like 'hypnotising' them by drawing a line?

15.3710 "newlaid"

cf 15.3106

15.3718 "one great goal"

this sort of abstraction is always a challenge with Joyce, because he sees them so deeply he can embody them in the simplest of events

15.3722 "whispers"

she sees Blazes in LB's palm

15.3723 "backhand"

pretending he's not paranoid (cf 6.200f, 8.1182ff, also 15.1017n).
this also reminds me of the scene in Tolstoy, where Pierre (Lev?) writes the acrostic for Kitty (Natasha?)

15.3726ff: LB's hallucinations have matured, from personal guilt to his responsibilities as a husband

15.3734 "horn"

this symbol means both the cuckoo's excitation and the cuckold's humiliation. so does the cuckoo 'give the horn' to the cuckold?

15.3743 "cobwebs"

from disuse

15.3750 "four thick bluntungulated fingers"

his count of his own performance? (cf Molly's memories) also palmistry motif

15.3755 "Ha ha ha ha"

Circe 5:86 "Laughter A (frank) E (?enclose) I (weak) O (bold) U (misanthrop.)" also, L1-144 has Moly = laughter, the enchantment killer

15.3760 "prune"

earlier versions had 'plum' (3760n: how similarly?)

15.3763 "splash"

social-class implications?

15.3771 "carriage sponge"

someone in their memoir of JAJ describes his jotting this note (out of the blue, apparently). it's masterfully sensuous!

15.3778 "pishogue"

derogatory for fairy

15.3781 "receipt"

for what?

15.3782-4: lines missing from earlier versions!

15.3793 "water"

cf 15.2037???

15.3797 "poppysmic"

opium poppy? cataclysmic?

15.3809 "Sweetly, hoarsely"

reconciliation of tame and wild?

15.3809 "Godblazeqrukbrukarchkrasht! "

Blazes' thunderword! cf FW's ten: [info]

15.3820 "Points"

(at the mirror?)

15.3822 "beardless"

so, in the first anger of cuckoldry?

15.3822 "rigid"

can't act (cf Hamlet)

15.3826 "loud laugh"

anachronism motif (where's the comment about Homer quoting Aristotle?)
JAJ had a loud laugh, eg 15.3900

15.3827 "thoughtest"

this -est motif seems to signify something (is it Bloom's solecism?)

15.3827 "invisible"

no longer the commercial traveller fleeing his subconscious, LB is realizing it's visible to all

15.3828 "capon"

castrated rooster

15.3828 "Oldfellow chokit his Thursdaymornun"

Othello chokes Desdemona, in pure Wakese
(does 'chokit' have Oxen-stylistic implications?)
Othello = WS = LB ( = JSJ?)
Desd = Anne H = SD? = Molly ... = Mrs Dignam = Mrs Cunningham
JSJ tried to choke May Joyce once, as well.

15.3829 "Thursdaymornun"

earlier versions had Thursdaymomum. my intuition wants it to be Thursdaymornum, for euphony, but if not then probably there's a nun involved.
JSJ's last message to JAJ (1931 anachronism) was that JAJ was born at 6am (but JAJ might have known approximately, all along).
LB's Thurs morning stretched from Calypso thru LotusEaters to Hades.

15.3833 "widower"

LB strangles MB?

15.3835 "Lapses"

??? rationalizing inaction?

15.3836 "next the skin"

earlier versions had 'near'

15.3838 "sherry"

cf 15.1233

15.3841 "trousers"

widow wears both pants and skirt, filling both parents' roles?

15.3842 "large eights"

cf 7.448 small nines?!?

15.3846 "streamers"

???

15.3849 "dragging me along"

cf May dragging SD to hell (15.4220 and notesheets)

15.3851 "beeftea"

how does beef love = henpecked??? Dent notes FW308R and 421.09, but doubts G&S

15.3853 "Weda seca"

Mrs Dignam's rouge offends WS??? (see 15.1205ff for Dignam's own testimony)

15.3863 "impassive"

contrast WS's rage

15.3863 "Immense"

cf 6.142, 146

15.3863 "demirep"

half-a-reputation = harlot

15.3866 "...grossfather"

germanism?

15.3873 "back from Paris"

14 months ago! (Rose has a complex, weak argument about this dating in the Lost Notebook.)

14.3880 "Rmm"

motorcycle noises???

14.3882ff: is this word-for-word translation from good french?

15.3883 "saling... perhaps hers"

perhaps she'll sell you her gloves, etc

15.3884 "beerchops"

shops? beer and chops?

15.3885 "dressed much about princeses like"

what's that 'about'?

15.3889n: a black mass ...really???

15.3890 "they tears silver"

???

15.3893 "dessous troublant"

that's troubling (exciting) not troubled (disordered)

15.3894 "Ce pif qu'il a"

what a big nose he has

15.3902 "ruffians"

cf 12.392

15.3905 "Caoutchouc statue"

inflatable doll???

15.3909 "omlet on the belly"

ejaculate/ Hamlet

15.3915 "mon loup"

my darling (idiomatic)

15.3915 "Waterloo"

what's the chain of associations, whore -> Waterloo -> dream?

15.3924 "Go abroad"

Zoe's tossing out cliched fortunes again, playing on his speech

15.3931 "showed me her"

answered his prayer, then? (fubsy widow cf Mrs Dignam?)

15.3931 "red carpet"

(at Eccles?)

15.3935 "I flew"

the flying preceded the carpet in the dream

15.3936 "Pater!"

Icarus plus Jesus

15.3940 "will he"

Simon D? Mulligan? God?

15.3940 "talons sharpened"

cf 9.84. SD wins his body?

15.3941 "Hillyho"

SD recalls his fighting spirit?

15.3947 "going to win?"

life as horserace? (as foxhunt?)

15.3952ff: the foxhunt and horserace motifs are strong in the FW-notes from the very earliest days of Nov 1922.

15.3956 "huntsmen"

[pic] [pic source]

15.3956 "live with them"

???

15.3960 "grey negroes"

greyhaired

15.3974 "dark horse, riderless"

why riderless? (was Throwaway dark?)

15.3980n: jaune d'Isabeau, cf 15.4501

15.3980 "Cock of the North"

[RealAudio]

15.3981 "honey cap"

green jacket = Irish, orange sleeves = English/protestant, but why the honey cap?

15.3984 "ORANGE LODGES"

turning on their own champion, in defeat?

15.3987 "nailscraped"

by his abusive wife

15.3987 "postagestamps"

his horse so slow he could have mailed himself faster? Deasy/Nestor = letter? (postal motif)

15.3989 "vias rectas"

sincere but deluded (GD has mis-fabled sir John's life)

15.3990 "buckets"

the first draft makes it clearer that someone has dumped a soupkettle on him

15.3991 "dancing coins"

see 2.449

15.3994 "Soft day"

ie, dripping wet with soup

15.3995 "Cissy"

last seen exchanging insults with the privates, 15.72

15.3998 "noise in the street"

can anyone summarize the range of interpretations of this in five lines or less? 1) random-number/ roll of dice...

15.4000 "Stop!"

stop what? nothing's happening...

15.4005 "That's me"

Zoe's from Yorkshire (15.1983)

15.4008 "Who'll"

...dance the keel row??? 15.2181

15.4013 "tripudium"

why associated with Mulligan at 3.448?

15.4016 "lights"

anachronism, relocated from Paris 1920, see Budgen

15.4027 "My Girl's..."

JAJ very late sought from Budgen the exact sheet music for laying out this sequence

15.4032 "vaccination"

unused note 'hair of the dog that hasn't bit you'

15.4047 "shrivels"

why? he just plays the prelude?

15.4052 [the formatting fails to break the line, oddly]

15.4054 "morning hours"

morning = U1-6, noon = U7-9, twilight = U10-12, night = U13-18

15.4058 "mocking mirrors"

see 2.159

15.4060 "Breathe evenly"

Circe 4:02 "?Lung air port for locomot." (the episode's organ)

15.4068 "May I"

permission granted, then request made!?

15.4077 "cipria"

cf 15.2060

15.4083 "curchycurchy"

cf 'hoochy-coochy dance'

15.4112 "whirligig"

Kitty must be tonedeaf, if she only recognizes the tune at this point (rockinghorse motif, also)

15.4123 "jujuby women"

???

15.4126 "hornblower"

the man-on-the-gate motif survives into FW/Mamalujo

15.4127 "bowels"

Circe 4:24 "pressure soil + foot: bowels leap"

15.4142 "cockboat"

???

15.4144 "shark"

inserted as 'steel shark with stone Nelson...'

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