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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]
18: Penelope
[etext] w/linebreaks part two
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Linati schema: "The Past Sleeps"
Gilbert schema: "Penelope - Earth, Web - Movement"
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16 August 1921:
"Penelope is the clou [star-turn] of the book. The first sentence contains 2500 words. There are eight sentences in the episode. It begins and ends with the female word yes. It turns like the huge earth ball slowly surely and evenly round and round spinning, its four cardinal points being the female breasts, arse, womb and cunt expressed by the words because, bottom (in all senses bottom button, bottom of the class, bottom of the sea, bottom of his heart), woman, yes. Though probably more obscene than any preceding episode it seems to me to be perfectly sane full amoral fertilisable untrustworthy engaging shrewd limited prudent indifferent Weib [woman]. Ich bin der Fleisch der stets bejaht. [I am the flesh that always affirms.]" [source]
Homer: P listens to minstrel, her deception with loom, hears of plot against T, learns of T's return, welcomes T, questions O, beguiles suitors, talks with O, trial of bow, reunion with O
Gibraltar: map, site-finder, road-finder, homepage, CIA
#0001 Mrs Riordan #0746 Mulvey, Mrs Rubio
#0016 m/f sickness #0762 Mulvey affair
#0034 lies, Menton #0782 Mulvey, Gib geog
#0044 golddigger #0796 how far w/Mulvey
#0055 Mary Driscoll #0809 Mulvey frig
#0076 BB, boy #0822 Mulvey now?, Gib geog
#0088 LB, kinks, pleasure #0840 last names
#0106 confession, priests #0853 Mulvey goodbye, Gardner
#0121 BB #0874 train, singing
#0136 storms, Gib, superstition #0878 KK and singers deprecated
#0143 BB's cock #0888 Gardner, good looks
#0158 pregnancy, nursing #0896 concert, fart, LB
#0169 Josie, socialism
#0181 LB's manipulability
#0203 Josie vs MB over LB
#0217 Denis Breen #0909 lamp, Gib exhibitionism
#0232 Mrs Maybrick #0925 drinkers, LB, cat
#0939 food, picnic plan
#0246 BB in DBC #0954 Bray boating fiasco
#0261 golddigging, feet, BB #0978 LB's plans, Eccles, fears
#0273 d'Arcy #1004 Milly annoying
#0284 LB, gloves, drawers, Gardner #1017 Milly's flirting
#0318 dirty words, LB's lovemaking #1031 Milly's sexuality
#0332 callers, Goodwin, 3pm #1056 MB slapped Milly
#0349 Belfast, trains, LB #1078 Mrs Fleming
#0373 Kathleen Kearney, LB as mngr #1088 SD, SiD, losing Fleming
#0387 Gardner, wars, soldiers #1104 menstruation
#0403 golddigging, Belfast #1113 theatre-men, blood
#0412 BB's lovemaking, Mastiansky #1131 peeing, BB
#0420 BB's style, Gold Cup
#0427 Lenehan, Glencree
#0437 new underclothes
#0450 weight, O'Rourke #1149 Dr Collins, emissions
#0457 LB's gifts, lotion #1181 getting to know LB
#0466 money, style, clothes #1195 LB's odd habits, bed
#0474 ageing, hair #1215 LB's career decline
#0484 chastity belt, Rabelais #1234 deceitful men
#0491 s&m books, fables #1252 LB's new girl, funeral
#0503 LB's jobs, dress w/Cuffe #1270 Power, Dignam
#0519 LB's bad advice on fem arts #1284 Dollard, SiD
#0527 Cuffe and dress #1300 SD, Rudy
#1313 cards, SD, poets
#0535 breasts #1333 Gib poets, LB no poet
#0542 exhibitionist men #1345 boys' nudity
#0552 urinals
#0560 nude pix, LB inept
#0570 nursing Milly, Penrose
#0581 BB's lovemaking #1368 BB vulgar
#1388 jealous men, LB's kinks
#0596 trains, heat, trash #1407 rape fantasy
#0607 Gib, Hester Stanhope #1426 m/f as rulers
#0624 Mr Stanhope?, Gib bullfight #1442 SD, Rudy, women lonely
#0638 Hester and MB and Stanhope #1463 Gib, Spanish, SD
#0662 Stanhopes leave Gib #1488 seducing SD
#0689 Capt Grove #1506 manipulating LB
#0698 Gib, Dixon, flirting #1540 housecleaning, flowers
#0718 letters, Floey #1571 Mulvey, Gib, Howth, LB18.1 "Yes because"
for Joyce 'yes' was a "female word", and 'because' is meant to express breasts (see above for quote)'Yes' is capitalised in this chapter only for the first and the last word
18.2 "breakfast in bed"
thruout this chapter, Molly swings wildly between loving and hating various people (esp LB) and also various things. Joyce also used this trick to depict the feminine mind of Gerty in Nausikaa, and Isolde in the Tristan vignette [qv] for Finnegans Wake.here she seems to be weighing the change in Bloom, neither hating nor loving-- the rest of the episode may even be her debate before deciding.
18.2 "since the City Arms hotel"
about eleven years earlier, corresponding to the time before Odysseus's exile with Calypso (ie, alienation from Penelope's affections)
18.2 "City Arms"
[map: 'L93-94']Gabler de-italicised this (and two song titles)
18.3 "pretending to be laid up"
they'd moved to the City Arms to be next door to his job at Cuffe's, but this Dante-scam was presumably after he'd been fired for 'giving lip to a grazier' (12.838, not necessarily reliable) because 1) it wouldn't have been worth missing work and 2) her money would have been looking more important if he was unemployed. cf wily Odysseus
18.3 "with a sick voice"
Bloom as actor/mimic
18.3 "doing his highness"
for Bloom/Odysseus to triumph over the suitors, Molly in this chapter must weigh the attractions of all her past 'suitors' (esp Boylan) and reject each one in favor of Bloom. here he may lose a point for trying (and failing) to scam Dante this way.we should also ask if Molly may have misunderstood the situation-- Bloom may have had other ideas he didn't share (though this sounds unlikely).. or she may be misrepresenting it, and he really was ill.
18.4 "Mrs Riordan"
in parallel to Molly's judging Bloom vs the suitors, Joyce has her judging herself vs various women (especially servants), corresponding probably to the execution of many disloyal servants in Homer:Ithaca notesheet 11:62: "12 unchaste virgins swab up and are killed hanged all in a row" exxed blue [more]
so here, Dante is condemned for being thin (faggot = bundle of sticks), miserly, talkative, humorless, and sexually uptight. but also praised for being educated.
(now that she's an adultress herself, she has to rethink her 'value' compared to Bloom)
18.11 "I hope Ill never be like her"
at 33yo Molly is concerned about losing her youth
18.12 "but she was a welleducated woman certainly"
Molly shares with Bloom the unusual capacity for looking at both sides
18.13 "Mr Riordan"
the fellow who ran off with Dante's funds, remember. apparently never mentioned around little Stevie. and never met by MB, so not a suitor here.
18.16 "polite"
score one for Bloom
18.17 "proud"
Molly respects LB's pride
18.17 "but not always"
this seems to be a painful memory surfacing ...of some time when Bloom wasn't proud enough when she needed him to be? (or wasn't polite?)
18.19 "dring"
cf Penelope notesheet: "1 month's job to persuade Ul. to go" after Achilles of Odysseus: "it was a full month ere we had sailed" [Homer] [more]cf Dante's miserliness toward medicine?
18.20 "on the carpet"
seems to imply trespassing on Molly's home turf, but literally "before an authority for censure or reproof" [def]
18.21 "staying there"
cf playing his highness-- it wasn't just to scam Dante, but also to please his ego and make him the center of attention
18.22 "shes as much a nun as Im not"
comparing self to other, but judging her for her fakery, not for appearing in smut
18.23 "theyre so weak"
thruout this chapter, Molly is also comparing men-in-general to women-in-general
18.24 "if his nose bleeds youd think it was O tragic"
Bloom loses a point for hypochondria
18.25 "off the south circular"
if this is describing where the Blooms were living, it must be Ontario terrace [map: 'L97'] but this doesn't square with the assumption she was pregnant with Rudy, from LB's "just beginning to plump it out" (8.168) [bio]
18.26 "the day I wore that dress"
superstitious (see below)
18.26 "Miss Stack"
unchaste virgin: dyinglooking, careless about flowers, curious about bedroom, unpleasant voice, self-dramatising wrt LB's accident
18.30 "looked more like a man"
LB loses point for androgynous looks
18.31 "I hate bandaging"
Molly's hates and loves and likes and wishes:I like that in him polite to old women (18.16)
I hate bandaging and dosing (18.31)
I hate having a long wrangle in bed (18.44)
I wish some man or other would take me sometime when hes there (18.104)
I hate that confession (18.106)
I liked him for that (18.196- Bloom's delayed proposal)I dont like my foot so much (18.262)
I liked the way he used his mouth singing (18.277- d'Arcy)
I liked the way he made love then (18.320)
I hate an unlucky man (18.323)
I hate people who come at all hours (18.333)
I love jaunting in a train or a car with lovely soft cushions (18.366)
I hate the mention of their politics (18.387)
I love to see a regiment pass in review (18.397)
I wished I could have picked every morsel of that chicken out (18.430)
I wish I had some (18.433- silverware)
I hate that pretending (18.491)
I wish hed even smoke a pipe like father to get the smell of a man (18.508)
I hate those rich shops (18.518)I wished he was here (18.584)
I dont like books with a Molly in them (18.658)
I hate people that have always their poor story to tell (18.725)
I wish somebody would write me a loveletter (18.734)I loved rousing that dog in the hotel (18.812)
I liked him like that (18.814- shy Mulvey)
I loved looking down at them (18.851- breasts)
I hate that istsbeg (18.876-- song lyric 'mists begin')
I wish hed sleep in some bed by himself (18.905)I like it in the winter (18.915- leaving gas light on)
I loved dancing about in it (18.928- shift)
I love to hear him falling up the stairs of a morning (18.933)
I hate their claws (18.936- cats)
I hate those eels (18.942)
I hate those ruck of Mary Ann coalboxes out for the day (18.952)
I dont like a man you have to climb up to to get at (18.977)
I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a place at night (18.978)
I wish he had what I had (18.1121- menses)
I wouldnt mind being a man (18.1148)I like letting myself down after in the hole (18.1165)
I liked him when he sat down to write the thing out (18.1172- gynecologist)
I like my bed (18.1215)I wished I was one myself (18.1381- man)
I used to love coming home after dances (18.1455)
I hate that in women (18.1458)
Id love to have a long talk with an intelligent welleducated person (18.1493)
Im sick of Cohens old bed (18.1498)
Id love a big juicy pear now (18.1503)
I love the smell of a rich big shop (18.1554)
I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses (18.1557)
18.34 "anyway love its not"
cf Penelope notesheet 2:50: "Calypso never won his heart" exxed blue [more]
18.37 "the hotel story he made up"
cf 17.2258's 'positive modifications' "an invitation to supper at Wynn's (Murphy's) hotel" (not fooling her for a minute)
18.38 "Menton"
Bloom includes him on the Ithaca list of suitors: [etext] Molly rejects him as a babbyface, unfaithful, impudent, boiled eyes, stupoe. (unlike LB, Menton probably is 'proud out of nothing' in Molly's view.)
18.40 "Myriorama"
[pix] [info-scroll down]
18.42 "make up to me"
Bloom seems to date this before the Leopardstown races (Maggot O'Reilly) but after Milly was born (Penrose) and probably while living at Lombard street [map: 'L93?'] or Pleasants street [L88-92]: "Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell d'Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly" [Ithaca- A281] [more]
18.44 "some little bitch"
unchaste virgin? golddigger
18.47 "to show"
1922 had "for the matches to show" (undeleted first thought?)
18.56 "that Mary"
unchaste virgin: Mary Driscoll-- slut, thief, has temper, liar, sloven
18.70 "I told her what I thought of her"
cf Penelope notesheet 2:06: "Pen upbraids impure servant" exxed blue [more]
18.77 "Boylan"
suitor: romantic, a change
18.80 "May Moon"
Moore [lyric](Joyce's mother's name was May)
18.81 "hes not such a fool"
score one for Bloom
18.95 "the German Emperor"
Wilhelm II, presumably [pic]
18.96 "trying to make a whore of me"
Bloom loses a point
18.107 "Father Corrigan"
suitor: won't say bottom, nice hand, nice smell, careful
18.108 "on the canal bank"
Dublin-- maybe Bloom?
18.121 "one thing I didnt like"
Boylan loses a point for rude slap
18.134 "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 notesheet 2:42: "Pen asleep during slaughter: she thinks god did it" exxed blue [Homer]2:73: "Pen wakes, prays" exxed blue [more]
18.142 "he doesnt know what it is to have one"
Bloom loses point
8.143 "tremendous big red brute"
point Boylan (also: good voice, vicious look, not much spunk, healthy children)
18.155 "amount of spunk"
oddly echoes Gogarty's 'Medical Dick and Davy' [lyric] (gravy = spunk or money)
18.157 "when I made him pull out and do it on me... the last time I let him finish it in me"
cf? Penelope unweaving the shroud
18.168 "Poldy has more spunk"
point Bloom
18.169 "Josie Powell"
unchaste virgin: wallflower, egging on, drawn and rundown looking, runs down husband
18.176 "when he said about Our Lord being a carpenter"
(was Bloom justifying his attentions to Josie as a christian act??? because she was homely with buck teeth?)
18.178 "he annoyed me so much I couldnt put him into a temper"
inverted logic?
18.180 "he knows a lot of mixedup things"
point Bloom
18.181 "family physician"
[extract]
18.181 "I could always hear his voice talking when the room was crowded"
ESP motif
18.186 "the present of lord Byrons poems"
(cf Bloom's 'dreamy creamy gull' efforts!? 8.60, 8.548, 15.3437)
18.196 "wasnt to be got for the asking"
point Bloom (also handsome)
18.209 "trying to look like Lord Byron"
[pic] cf Henry Flower [Circe](Bloom was probably more impressed by Byron's fame than by his art-- Molly will think: "first I thought he was a poet like lord Byron and not an ounce of it in his composition")
18.216 "but that wasnt my fault"
Molly weighing her own virtue
18.217 "dotty husband"
suitor? Denis Breen: messy, mad, muderous?
18.223 "with his muddy boots on"
cf Penelope notesheet 2:44: "Won't accept travelstained Ul." exxed red [more]
18.225 "wipes his feet"
point Bloom (also blacks own boots, tips hat)
18.229 "like then"
(when???)
18.231 "another of their sex"
judging men-in-general
18.234 "Mrs Maybrick"
[fanpage w/pix] ditto(perhaps a Homeric parallel to Clytemnestra?)
18.236 "some men can be dreadfully aggravating"
judging men-in-general
18.238 "I wonder why they call it that"
Molly hears the word 'arse' in arsenic
18.245 "not brutes enough to go and hang a woman"
her death sentence was in fact commuted in 1889, and she was released in January 1904
18.255 "lost"
cf Telegraph "TAKEN by mistake, from the Dance Room, Banba Hall, Rutland square, June 14th, Pink Shawl, Imitation Maltese lace. Please return to Miss Drago, 36 Henry street." [cite]
18.261 "Ill stick him for one"
Molly is guilty of what she accused the 'little bitch' of (golddigging)
18.263 "Goodwins botchup of a concert"
Bloom sees Goodwin as a suitor, but Molly doesn't (he's a frostyfaced alcoholic, but also a real old gent in his way)
18.268 "hes not natural"
Bloom loses a point for sexual kinks
18.273 "the man with the curly hair in the Lucan dairy thats so polite"
suitor?
18.273 "Bartell dArcy"
suitor: made fun of by Bloom, tinny voice, nice mouth when singing
18.274 "Ave Maria"
[lyric&midi] [GIF of music] [info]
18.283 "he hadnt an idea about my mother till we were engaged otherwise hed never have got me so cheap as he did"
Lunita Laredo: maybe jewish? or kinky? or longshot, prostitute? cf below 18.1183 "jewess looking after my mother"
18.286 "is it permitted to enquire the shape of my bedroom"
cf??? Penelope testing Odysseus about bed
18.290 "skeezing at those brazenfaced things"
Bloom loses a point
18.292 "that one in the cream muslin standing right against the sun so he could see every atom she had on"
unchaste virgin?
18.296 "Zingari colours"
"Club colours of crimson, green and old gold were adopted but because of difficulties in producing silk caps in these colours, they were soon changed to the present colours of broad stripes of black and violet separated by narrow gold stripes." [history] [Kidd]
18.297 "looking slyboots as usual"
maybe Bloom loses a point (but cf wily Ulysses)
18.298 "they can go and get whatever they like"
men-in-general again
18.308 "splendid set of teeth he had"
point Bloom
18.313 "the way I used to Gardner after with my ring hand"
suitor: goodlooking, right height, brave?the timeline is messy here-- Molly flirted with Gardner at the time of the Boer war (1899), some 11 years after she married Bloom. But Joyce is taking the story from Nora and Kearns [Nora timeline] which happened four years before she met Joyce. The word 'after' here is probably a halfhearted attempt to repair the anachronism.
18.314 "I was dying to find out was he circumcised"
(implying a surprising amount of experience for Molly at 16yo?!?)
18.316 "they want to do everything too quick"
men-in-general
18.321 "he had a few brains"
point Bloom
18.322 "Henny Doyle"
suitor? clumsy, unlucky
18.328 "he knew the way to take a woman"
(Bloom has changed dramatically!)
18.331 "he never knew how to embrace well like Gardner "
messy timeline again
18.333 "I hate people who come at all hours"
(what is Joyce doing here? eg, does Molly contradict this later?)
18.341 "I thought it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first"
(maybe a Homeric correspondence?)
18.354 "hed never believe the next day we didnt do something"
Boylan would feel cuckolded by Bloom!
18.357 "something always happens with him"
Bloom loses a point for unluckiness
18.358 "Maryborough"
[map]
18.363 "the two gentlemen in the 3rd class carriage said he was quite right so he was too"
this is hard to explain, unless perhaps the waiter had taken too long to bring the soup, or it had been served too hot?
18.365 "theyd have taken us on"
cf? "O Mr. Porter, what can I do? I wanted to go to Birmingham And they've taken me on to Crewe." [lyric]
18.367 "the usual idiots of men gaping"
men-in-general
18.371 "Id like to find out something about him"
suitor!? discreet workman
18.375 "St Teresas hall"
a temperance society, suggesting Molly is probably no better than Mrs McCoy?
18.376 "Kearney"
see 'A Mother' [etext]
18.377 "father being in the army... absentminded beggar... Lord Roberts"
Molly sides with the English in the Boer war, unlike the Irish nationalists
18.378 "Lord Roberts"
[bio&pic]
18.378 "when I had the map of it all"
Gifford says Raleigh says 'the map of Ireland all over her face'I think likelier it's just 'I saw how things stood'
18.379 "was it him managed it this time"
Molly doesn't know how much credit Bloom is due for Boylan's interest?
18.380 "he got me on to sing"
point Bloom
18.381 "Lead Kindly Light"
[RealAud] ditto [GIF of music] [info]
18.382 "till the jesuits found out he was a freemason"
(so definitely he was, but maybe he no longer is)
18.384 "his usual trash and nonsense"
Bloom loses a point
18.386 "Griffiths"
suitor? Arthur Griffith no neck, looks unintelligent
18.387 "he knew there was a boycott"
Gifford is silent on this, but the context suggests it was Boers-related.A web search turns up a threatened boycott against Jews in Limerick in 1904 [info] and a press-boycott involving Griffith's paper [longshot]
18.394 "oom Paul"
[bio&pic] [EB]
18.399 "Algeciras"
[map]
18.400 "Black Watch"
[history] [pix]
18.408 "to get it over the knuckle there"
(symbolically, this seems like a divorce!??)
18.419 "he so quiet and mild"
Bloom considers Mastiansky a suitor
18.427 "Glencree dinner"
this event is depicted in Ulysses from many points of view [more]
18.430 "cracking the nuts with my teeth"
perhaps resulting in public humiliation? cf [Nora]
18.434 "I could easily have slipped a couple into my muff"
cf Eumeus notesheet 6:145: "Stole 3 cups in blouse" (not Penelope or maid, just a sea-tale) [more]
18.438 "Andalusian"
unchaste virgin?
18.447 "Gentlewoman"
[pic]
18.452 "Larry"
Bloom doesn't count Larry O'Rourke as a suitor: rich but stingy
18.458 "the cheque he got on the first"
probably the Canadian-stock interest payment, received each 'quarter day', also anticipated by Milly [Ithaca]
18.475 "Mrs Galbraith"
unchaste virgin?
18.481 "Langtry"
[bio&pic] [bio] [grave]
18.483 "theyre all made the one way"
men-in-general
18.484 "some funny story"
Molly is as bad as Bloom at telling jokes?
18.490 "bumgut"
[etext]
18.492 "with that old blackguards face on him anybody can see its not true"
???
18.494 "I remember when I came to page 50"
in his notes, Joyce explored at great length how personality could be revealed in nuances about reading:1920 U-Circe 19:22 "LB dislikes books where you must read over twice"
1921 U-A2.8 Penelope "MB pretends to read book"
Nov22 10.23 "9 pages more = 18 (W)"
Nov22 10.43 "W reads, skips 2 pages"
Apr23 3.76 "Where did I stop? (read - Is)"
Apr23 3.79 "Priest extends nonreading hand = Silence!"
Jul23 A-Exiles2 85 "I. reads love novels in Fr"
Aug23 A-Exiles1 32 "Is reads + coughs"
Sept23 2.118 "Is reads geog"
?1924: A-Personal 94 "Is reads on floor"
?1924: A-Personal 100 "read ?serial in tram"
[more] [newgame]
18.496 "after the ball was over"
[RealAud] [lyrics and MIDI] ditto
18.500 "year I was born"
[not quite]
18.502 "planted the tree"
cf Ithaca notesheet 11:47: "[Laertes] gives little Ul. 63 trees" exxed blue [more]
18.503 "he ought to chuck that Freeman"
Bloom loses point for lack of ambition
18.510 "to get the smell of a man"
androgyny again
18.512 "Mr Cuffes"
Bloom sees him as a suitor: stiff, nice
18.549 "theyre always trying to show it to you"
men in general
18.552 "7 wonders"
[fansite] [map]
18.562 "that bath of the nymph... that dirty bitch"
unchaste virgins? younger
18.566 "he never can explain a thing simply"
Bloom loses point (also burnt pan)
18.569 "arent they fearful trying to hurt you"
men in general
18.572 "Penrose"
Bloom counts as suitor: delicate looking
18.573 "I snapped up the towel to my face"
cf Penelope notesheet 2:04: "Pen ?repose nitegown before face" exxed blue [more](was she coyly leaving her breasts visible?)
18.592 "theyre not all like him thank God"
another point lost for kinkiness
18.609 "3 Rock"
[detail]
18.612 "Mrs Stanhope"
[inspiration]probably not an unchaste virgin: very nice
18.613 "B Marche"
[pic&info] [collage] 3D VR
18.615 "a very clean dog"
probably a symmetry with talking dog Garryowen
18.617 "Waiting"
lyrics: [G11.730]The stars shine on his pathway,
The trees bend back their leaves
To guide him to the meadow
Among the golden sheaves
Where I stand longing, loving
And listening as I wait
To the nightingale's wild singing,
Sweet singing to its mate,
Singing, singing, sweet singing to its mate.The breeze comes sweet from heaven,
And the music in the air
Heralds my lover's coming,
And tells me he is there,
Come for my arms are empty!
Come for the day was long!
Turn the darkness into glory,
The sorrow into song.
I hear his footfalls' music,
I feel his presence near.
All my soul responsive answers
And tells me he is here.O stars-- shine out your brightest!
O night-- ingale, sing sweet
To guide-- him to me, waiting
And speed his flying feet,
To guide-- him to me, waiting
And speed his flying feet.ZB cites these less-likely lyrics:
I look from my window upon the dull street,
The wind and the rain on the marketplace beat;
I sigh from my heart for my love tarries long,
With his sheep, and his goats, and his cattle so strong.
My love in the mountains I'm waiting for thee,
O that from this bondage my poor heart were free!My love to the market his cattle will bring,
And then 'neath my window a song he will sing;
A song which will tell me the time has now come,
To go with my love to his wild mountain home.
I care not for guardian, nor sister, nor friend,
But by my love's side I my footsteps will wend.
18.617 "in old Madrid"
[GIF of music] lyric excerpts:Long years ago, in old Madrid,
Where softly sighs of love the light guitar,
Two sparkling eyes a lattice hid,
Two eyes as darkly bright as love's own star!
There on the casement ledge, when day was o'er,
A tiny hand was lightly laid;
A face look'd out, as from the river shore,
There stole a tender serenade.
Rang the lover's happy song,
Light and low from shore to shore,
But ah, the river flowed along
Between them evermore,
Come my love, the stars are shining,
Time is flying, love is sighing,
Come, for thee a heart is pining,
Here alone I wait for thee.Far, far away from old Madrid,
Her lover fell, long years ago, for Spain;
A convent veil those sweet eyes hid,
And all the vows that love had sigh'd were vain!
But still, between the dusk and night, 'tis said,
Her white hand opes the lattice wide,
The faint sweet echo of that serenade
Floats weirdly o'er the misty tide!
18.622 "x x x x x"
Martha's letter (5.259) ended with 4 exxes, missing in 1922, restored by G
18.624 "he was awfully fond of me"
suitor: Mr Stanhope: attractive, bald, intelligent looking, disappointed and gay
18.634 "he used to break his heart at me taking off the dog barking in bell lane"
Gifford claims Bell Lane is in Dublin (off Ely Place, midway between Ontario and Holles) but my maps don't show it, and they do show one in Gibraltar, where you'd expect it [map]at 18.812 Molly will remember teasing a dog
18.643 "Alameda"
[info] [pix]
18.650 "Ashlydyat"
[info]
18.653 "Moonstone"
[etext]
18.6653 "East Lynne"
[etext]
18.658 "Flanders"
[etext]
18.689 "captain Groves"
possessive Grove's. suitor? never forgot himself
18.696 "Bushmills"
homepage [labels] [tourist]
18.700 "heah heah aheah all my compriments on your hotchapotch of your heass"
mimicry motif (performance motif)
18.705 "medical in Holles street"
Dixon? suitor: thick
18.717 "see she wrote a letter to him"
why 'see'?
18.720 "pisto"
w/zucchini, w/bacon
18.735 "still if he wrote it I suppose thered be some truth in it"
cf Stephen's (and Bloom's?) view of art
18.741 "four courts"
[pic] [info]
18.747 "as for being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well throw you out in the bottom of the ashpit."
women-in-general vs men
18.748 "Mulveys was the first"
loveletter (not penis, as some have assumed)suitor: sweet mouth, shy, fair, laughing kind of a voice
18.748 "Mrs Rubio"
unchaste virgin: disobliging, vain, ugly, religious, domineering, chicken thief? stone-throwera very dark personality, immediately following the bottom of the ashpit (period)
18.756 "took all the rock"
[1sthand]
18.769 "Moorish wall"
[pix] [map] [info]
18.781 "infant king"
[pic]
18.783 "OHaras tower"
[info&pic]
18.783 "rockgun"
cf? [info&pic]
18.784 "apes"
[tourist] ditto
18.786 "Inces farm"
[map]
18.790 "firtree cove"
misread notes for Fig-Tree Cave [map]
18.791 "galleries and casemates"
[map] [pic]
18.791 "Saint Michaels cave"
[info] ditto [cool map]
18.795 "Malta"
[map]
18.796 "they love doing that"
men-in-general
18.801 "first for fear you never know consumption or leave me with a child embarazada"
cf Penelope notesheet 2:49: "Pen, reasons for chastity he might b---" exxed blue [more]
18.817 "Molly darling"
[GIF of music] [info]
18.830 "Chronicle"
[website]
18.834 "jews burialplace"
[map]
18.837 "H M S Calypso"
[history]
18.839 "bloomers"
[history] [pic]
18.843 "better than Breen"
point Bloom?
18.848 "Williss road"
apostrophe missed [map]
18.849 "Europa point"
[map] [pic?]
18.856 "Windmill hill"
[map]
18.856 "with captain Rubios that was dead"
maybe: she climbs the hill with Mulvey, to a place or on a date connected to Mrs Rubio's husband's death?but why continuing '...spyglass like the sentry had he said hed have one or two from on board'? is it capt Rubio's spyglass???
18.863 "I kept the handkerchief under my pillow for the smell of him"
cf Oxen-Circe seminal-emission motif!?
18.866 "Claddagh ring"
[history] ditto [Buffy's]
18.869 "opal or a pearl"
cf 21 Aug 1904 letter to Nora: "When I wrote [Chamber Music] I was a strange lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that some day a girl would love me. But I never could speak to the girls I used to meet at houses. Their false manners checked me at once. Then you came to me. You were not in a sense the girl for whom I had dreamed and written the verses you find now so enchanting. My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music." (SL161, emphasis added)
18.871 "shower"
[Fort etext] [background]
18.872 "Marie"
[info] more
18.873 "no he hadnt a moustache that was Gardner"
1886 vs 1899 confusion again
18.878 "Kathleen Kearney"
maybe unchaste virgin? sparrowfart, boring, unintelligent, flatchested
18.893 "fit to be looked at"
point Bloom (I think)
18.899 "Ill get that big fan mended"
symmetry with Bella?
18.9 "I wish hed sleep in some bed by himself"
Bloom loses point for cold feet, slobberingcf? Penelope notesheet 2:47: "[Ul.] threats to sleep alone" exxed blue [more]
18.911 "queerlooking man in the porkbutchers"
suitor? Dlugacz? great rogue
18.919 "sierra nevada"
[map&info]
18.927 "he had the manners not to wake me"
point Bloom (and the preceding stuff about medicals leaves him the benefit of the doubt
18.932 " love to hear him falling up the stairs of a morning"
point Bloom (biggie?)
18.938 "I wonder do they see anything that we cant"
Molly thinks like Bloom
18.947 "we all"
Molly and Boylan and Bloom?
18.947 "Mrs Fleming"
unchaste virgin? old, sneezes and farts (we'll see below she's given notice because her husband is paralysed)
18.948 "furry glen"
[pic?]
18.955 "if anyone asked could he ride the steeplechase for the gold cup hed say yes"
i think Molly sort of likes this in him (no lost point)
18.963 "Burke"
Bloom includes as suitor: ugly
18.964 "there was no love lost between us thats 1 consolation"
(consolation for what?)
18.973 "Catalan bay"
[pix]
18.990 "all the plans he invents"
Bloom loses point
18.995 "better than nothing"
half-point?
18.1004 "the girl"
does Molly see Milly as an unchaste virgin? (cf: "I suppose he thinks Im finished out and laid on the shelf")
18.1007 "the way he plots and plans everything out"
wily Odysseus
18.1012 "loglady"
[pic- row4, col3] [intros]
18.1015 "for 2 shillings"
very unlikely price for repair, unless it was in a specialty shop? [prices]
18.1038 "Only Way"
[pic] [IMDb]
18.1039 "I hate people touching me"
Milly's words not Molly's
18.1042 "fellow in the pit"
cited by Bloom as suitor: daft, peeper?
18.1055 "Martin Harvey"
[IMDb] [birthplace]
18.1056 "I suppose there are a few men like that left"
(would Bloom give up his life for Molly?)
18.1060 "the majority of them with not a particle of love in their natures"
men-in-general
18.1078 "having the two of us slaving here"
Bloom loses point
18.1088 "Simon Dedalus"
Bloom lists as suitor: criticiser
18.1091 "intermediate"
cf Portrait [etext]
18.1111 "Mrs Kendal"
[& Elephant Man]
18.1125 "its pouring out of me like the sea"
cf Ithaca notesheet 11:35: "blood dripping walls" unexxed [more]Bloom's victory over Boylan is symbolized here by Boylan's failure to impregnate her
18.1130 "this damned old bed"
cf 18.1215 "I like my bed", 18.1498 "Im sick of Cohens old bed"
18.1148 "Lahore"
[etext] [pic] Maps: Lodore, Lahore
18.1153 "Dr Collins"
suitor: dry old stick, queer children, untrustworthy, nice frown, intelligent
18.1176 "mad crazy letters"
Bloom loses point?cf JAJ to NB 1909: "...But, side by side and inside this spiritual love I have for you there is also a wild beast-like craving for every inch of your body, for every secret and shameful part of it, for every odour and act of it." [more]
18.1182 "Rehoboth terrace"
map: ['M88']
18.1185 "he used to amuse me"
halfpoint Bloom
18.1189 "Huguenots"
[RealAud]
18.1197 "the habits he has"
loses point
18.1202 "lying on his side"
pix: golden face giant weathered
18.1214 "Lord Napier"
[bio&pix]
18.1217 "every time were on the run again"
Joyce is recycling memories of his own father here, but they doesn't easily jibe with Bloom's healthy savings
18.1234 "if anybody saw him"
(a rather disappointing conventional Victorian obsession with respectability)
18.1235 "Ill see if he has that French letter still in his pocketbook"
he probably gave it to Bannon [more]
18.1237 "deceitful men all their 20 pockets arent enough for their lies... thats the kind of villainy theyre always dreaming about with not another thing in their empty heads they ought to get slow poison the half of them"
men in general
18.1238 "Masterpiece"
[pix]
18.1246 "the way the jews"
[background]
18.1264 "falling down"
opening of 'Grace' [etext]
18.1282 "Bill Bailey"
[lyrics&midi]
18.1297 "Maritana"
[RealAud]
18.1309 "deathwatch"
[ento] [EB]
18.1311 "Fauntleroy"
[info&pix] ditto
18.1337 "Tarifa"
[map]
18.1346 "Margate"
[coincidence]
18.1350 "statue"
cf [pix]
18.1378 "old Lion"
cf Pen "my noble lord of the lion heart" and "she found Odysseus among the bodies of the dead... like a lion that has eaten of an ox" (but here the lion is Boylan not Bloom!?)
18.1386 "it didnt make me blush why should it either its only nature"
Molly the philosopher
18.1389 "Irish street"
Gifford claims this is Gibraltar not Dublin!?? [Gib]
18.1397 "what else were we given all those desires for Id like to know"
cf Stephen on naked women in ch3
18.1406 "kiss our hall door"
cf mezuzah [info] ditto [pic] buy
18.1418 "that blackguardlooking fellow"
suitor? fine eyes
18.1420 "that K C lives up somewhere this way"
Gifford guesses TM Healy (Mountjoy square) but Councillor Nannetti (MP, not King's Counsel?) lived in Hardwicke place
18.1421"the night he gave us the fish supper"
Boylan
18.1435 "did you ever see me running"
in a draft of Circe J gave this phrase to Zoe. it seems to mean 'I'm not your servant'
18.1442 "hes running wild now"
suitor? Stephen: fine son, shy, welleducated
18.1475 "Valera"
[bio-Spanish]
18.1492 "Im not going to take in lodgers off the street for him if he takes a gesabo of a house like this"
in ch10 we saw Molly replace the 'Unfurnished Apartments' sign in the window
18.1542 "angelus"
Begin civil twilight 03:06; Sunrise 03:57 [cite] (time zone dubious)
18.1577ff [image of proofs]
18.1601 "geraniums"
[flora]