The consensus has been that Joyce, during this period, was floundering for direction, but I think a comparison of the FW notes with the Ulysses notes shows that FW followed very naturally from the structures and themes that Joyce designed into U.
Feb 1 1922 (quoted from Ellmann's JJ2, p524): Just before "Ulysses" was to appear Joyce and Nora were walking with [Djuna] Barnes in the Bois de Boulogne [a Paris park!] when a man brushed by and mumbled something she did not catch. Joyce trembled and went white. To Miss Barnes's question he said, "That man, whom I have never seen before, said to me as he passed, in Latin, 'You are an abominable writer!' That is a dreadful omen the day before the publication of my novel."
Around October 29 1922 (the anniversary of the completion of Ulysses), while proofreading the Cyclops chapter (page 287 line 38 in his version, 12.300 in Gabler), Joyce read:
--What's that bloody freemason doing, says the citizen, prowling up and down outside?
In the pocketnotebook VI.B.10, he wrote this first FW note:
10.01 "Polyphemous is Ul's shadow"Within days, Joyce made notes indicating several themes and strategies that were to dominate the early notes:
10.01 "Every W in I shd down tools" the matriarchy motif 10.02 "franking machine" the postal motif, the machinery motif 10.03 "storm debated" the punning game (abated) 10.03 "introduce object (penis*)" the sexcrime motif (this note probably led to the fork motif, viz. the several uses of 'introduce' in FW) 10.03 "W thinks she is frigged in sleep tells Priest. He at altar next morning thinks he has been polluted. Catechism class He explains, boy's revery. He meets girl. She dreams "The ?dance"" cf FW I.2? 10.04 "story all improbable lies" denial motif 10.05-06 foxhunting motif, very dense 10.09 "make reader believe it is N.D the 'Seine'" misdirection game 10.13 "Fr. Bern. Vaughan granted privilege of portable altar" Irish Times Nov 1 --> Kevin vignette. BV is mentioned in Ulysses. 10.33 "bombard with starshells + electric sparklers" explosion motifThe Roderick O'Conor vignette may have originated here:
10.33 "outpassed hearts grow small" destitution motif. Joyce's primary lesson: all things shall pass.Simultaneously, Joyce began to take notes in a 1000-page desk notebook, Scribbledehobble, under 47 different headings. Duplications and changes in handwriting and pen-nibs allow the strata of Scribble to be correlated with Polyphemous fairly precisely. ("A-Eumeus 27" means the 27th distinct note under the heading Eumeus in VI.A Scribbledehobble.)
A-Eumeus 13 "Crimean veteran" Buckley motif? the Crimean War was in the 1850s so in 1904 a veteran would have been in his late 60s at least A-Eumeus 54 "duty peck (kiss)" kiss motif A-Eumeus 100 "annoying soldiers + persons using the park" park motif A-Eumeus 103 "within prohibited degree" incest motif A-Eumeus 105 "signed 'green tea' (Jap lover)" letter motif, tea motif, teastain motif, green motif A-Circe 34-37 equivalences game A-Circe 34 "mother's day out = bad boy's opportunity" freedom vs discipline A-Circe 35 "old soldier = tales to tell" A-Circe 36 "path of duty = bobby's beat" conscience motif, path motif A-Circe 37 "backwards = tamer leaves cage" path motif A-Ithaca 1 "inability to move equivalent to end of one's days" A-Scylla 13 "end of life pleasure = gentle motion" old age motif A-Nausikaa 13 "see upside down head in fork more hues" rainbow motif mirror motif fork motif A-Lotus 2 "mistake in uniform on stage intended" --> B&P? (why Lotus?) A-Proteus 7 "guilty looks back, conscience forward" conscience motif A-Circe 81 "strip social protection gone" trousers motif A-Cyclops 21 "bard, bellbranch, coat of 6 colours" ollave motif, rainbow motif, bell motif A-Wandering 1 "How do you? How do you do?" howdy motifHe must have given some thought to the Arabian Nights, around December, conscious of its story-linking techniques:
A-Scylla 18 "tales within tales (1001)" A-Encounter 1 "Barber's story (1001 N.) self + onanism" A-Sisters 1 "Arabian nights, serial stories, tales within tales, to be continued" 10.37 "Stories monologue 1 pers to 1 1 [pers to] 2 2 [pers to] 1 2 [pers to] 2 polylogue (broadcasting)" 10.37 "nosepaper rumpcloth" hanky motif 10.40 "Cycles of hist." cycles motif 10.44 "Sororicide, matricide, fratricide, no word for figlicide (cf Abraham + Cenci" 10.46 "AE + WB Goneril + Regan" Yeats and Russell are Eire's hypocritical sons, JJ = Cordelia? 10.48 "Eve in trousers" figleaf substitute trousers motif 10.50 "donkeyman" 10.50 "How do you do, you damned sneakylooking soaper you think you're not going to fork out? How do you do, Mr X! You haven't got in yet I know what you're after nor you won't. I hope you're quite well" howdy motif, dialog of JSJ and landlord 10.53 "Brian marches round I-- his left hand to the sea (LB)" circlepath motif, L/R motif 10.60 "Write story about Riviera 'Snow, hail' sentences without 'I' (Cycl)" misdirection game? 10.61 "false setting of starmap discovered new star" A-Circe 134 "oracle = dream" dream motif A-Cyclops 66 "no word for kiss in Irish" kiss motif 10.64 "never rob knife or 1 armed man" 1-arm motif 10.71 "Bywaters a waitress an omnibus driver a rlwy porter a dustman named Churches in the employ of 'We have been discussing the case All the fellows An actress 'Then he has been so wonderful' Three soldiers were walking in Fleet street. One gave an opinion in which all concurred. It was the woman. He proved himself a man afterwards a sailor on the embankment was encouraged to speak by his fiancee & said I think he was more to blame but I think there was someone else in it. A barmaid-- it wd be a shame A taxicab driver one shd not pay full penalty A chef I do not believe in the capital punishment a commercial traveller escape the gallows" Bywaters's trial in December for murdering his lover's husband had been big news 10.74 "druid Christianity S Patrick" 1st hint of Berkeley vignette? 10.76 "Pierrepoint (borine*) invented strap for 1 armed men" 1-arm motif 10.77 "Nature sends men to damps (piss) W" 'W' suggests it's a woman's phrase 10.85 "hip-bath (?semicupid)" --> Kevin 10.88 "in his true colours" colours motif-system --> B&P vignette 10.92 "On duty : Robert replenishes his briar" duty motif, pipe motif? 10.92 "kick his reflection (soul) [kick his] shadow [kick his] form (bed) : LB meets self" shadow motif 10.96 "W changes when new note strike her" decision motifThe T&I relationship begins to form:
10.100 "nothing under her hat but hair + solid ivory" dumb/ nude? 10.106 "I will give [pounds sign] 10 to anyone who will put her in canal" murder, or mischief? if murder, the price is an insult! 10.107 "thrills administered by big husky football men*" --> T&I 10.109 "Dame Alia Barbara Esmonds*" 10.112 "highspeed love" lust motif A-Nausikaa 42 "girl secrets = instinct of nestbuilding" A-Ithaca 86 "egourge-- man blindfolded returns to self in field because right step is bigger" circlepath motif A-Ithaca 105 "pithecoid man (cross of ape or slave)" A-Eumeus 295 "there are 2 sinbads (Ul-Psagg-LB-?WBM)" 1001 motif A-Eumeus 302 "how do you do (a common phrase in Dublin)" howdy motif A-Circe 146-147 "liver (lust) heart (love)" A-Eolus 51 "said to his father (only lector knows 'tis his father)" A-Penelope 53 "the engineer!" engineer motif A-Eumeus 349 "dissimulated himself behind door" adulterer's guilty hidingplace? or voyeurism? --> 3.39 --> T&INotebook VI.D.8 from Feb/March 1923 is missing, except for 200 copied notes in VI.A. (These were clearly changed in the copying, adding sigla, possibly changing other elements.)
A-Personal 28 "3 waves of I = Thoth, Ruri, Cleeva" A-Personal 130 "$E pissed a wall by three O'Ryans" HCE A-Personal 145 "T's whisper heard in Pekin" whisper motif A-Personal 152 "$[ listens to hear his own mistakes" Shem A-Personal 210 "$[ pain in lost limb (innocence)" 1-arm motif, ShemBut we know that on March 10 1923, Joyce wrote the first 'official' lines of FW:
Vignette 1: Roderick O'Conor "So anyhow to wind up after the whole beanfeast was all over poor old King Roderick O'Conor the last king of all Ireland who was anything you like between fiftyfour and fiftyfive years of age at the time after the socalled last supper he gave or at least he wasn't actually the last king of all Ireland for the time being because he was still such as he was the king of all Ireland after the last king of all Ireland Art MacMurrough Kavanagh who was king of all Ireland before he was anyhow what did he do King Roderick O'Conor the respected King of all Ireland at the time after they were all of them gone when he was all by himself but he just went heeltapping round his own right royal round rollicking table and faith he sucked up sure enough like a Trojan in some particular cases with the assistance of his venerated tongue one after the other in strict order of rotation whatever happened to be left in the different bottoms of the various drinking utensils left there behind them by the departed honourable guests such as it was either Guinnesses or Phoenix Brewery Stout or John Jameson and Sons or for that matter O'Connell's Dublin ale as a fallback of several different quantities amounting in all to I should say considerably more than the better part of a gill or naggin of imperial dry and liquid measure." The specification of 54 as ROC's age suggests that of these early vignettes, ROC is John Stanislaus Joyce (54 in 1904), T&I are Jim and Nora, and Kevin is Stannie.
Joyce here has chosen the startingpoint of his new system: image of the fallen man. And he then turned immediately to Tristan and Isolde:
Vignette 2: Tristan & Isolde [Certainly under way by March 28.] "The
handsome sixfoottwo rugger and soccer champion and the belle of
Chapelizod in her ocean blue brocade bunnyhugged scrumptiously in the
dark behind the chief steward's cabin while with sinister dexterity he
alternately rightandlefthandled fore and aft her palpable rugby and
association bulbs.
She murmurously asked for some but not too much of the best poetry
reflecting on the situation her reason being that by the light of the
moon of the silvery moon she loved to spoon before her honeymoomoon. He
promptly then elocutioned to her in decasyllabic iambic hexameter:
--Roll on, thou deep and darkblue ocean, roll!
It was a gorgeous sensation he being exactly the right man in the right
place and the weather conditions could not possibly have been improved.
Her role was to roll on the darkblue ocean roll that rolled on round the
round roll Robert Roly rolled round. She gazed while his deepsea peepers
gazed O gazed O dazedcrazedgazed into her darkblue rolling ocean eyes.
He then having dephlegmatised his throat uttered as follows from his
voicebox:
--Isolde!
By elevation of eyelids that she addressed insinuated desideration of
his declaration.
--Isolde, O Isolde, when theeupon I oculise my most inmost Ego most
vaguely senses the profundity of multimathematical immaterialities
whereby in the pancosmic urge the Allimanence of That Which Is Itself
exteriorates on this here our plane of disunited solid liquid and
gaseous bodies in pearlwhite passionpanting intuitions of reunited
Selfhood in the higher dimensional Selflessness.
Hear, O hear, all ye caller herrings! Silent be, O Moyle! Milky Way,
strew dim light!
She reunited milkymouthily his hers and their disunited lips and quick
as greased lightning the Breton champion drove the advance messenger of
love with one virile tonguethrust past the double line of ivoryclad
forwards fullback rightjingbangshot into the goal of her gullet."
This next T&I paragraph may, by the handwriting, have been added slightly later than the preceeding ones:
"Now what do you candidly suppose she, a strapping young Irish princess scaling nine stone twelve in her pelt, cared at that precise physiological moment about tiresome old King Mark, that tiresome old pantaloon in his tiresome old twentytwoandsixpenny shepherd's plaid trousers? Not as much as a pinch of henshit and that's the meanest thing that was ever known. No, on the contrary, if the truth must be told lovingly she lovegulped his pulpous propeller and both together in the most fashionable weather they both went all of a shiveryshaky quiveryquaky mixumgatherum yumyumyum. After which before the traditional ten seconds were up Tristan considerately allowed his farfamed chokegrip to relax and precautiously withdrew the instrument of rational speech from the procathedral of amorous seductiveness."
In the simplest terms, here is the fundamental human relationship, woman-man. (But, O!, the subtlety of the detail!)
Joyce's first-of-three eye operations was April 3, per Ellmann, then on the 4th and 7th, all his teeth came out, making speaking and eating difficult. Ellmann claims "by June 10 he was able to read a little", but it seems impossible he was so totally blind for so long.
3.01 "to circulate (Trist)" circlepath motif
3.01 "Trist- Go away from me you (she goes) O come back" decision motif
3.02 "Is (a Tochter)" father-daughter motif the German might convey a
proud papa? a disciplinarian?
3.07 "he briskly responded after thinking it over in a flash" decision
motif
3.10 "the lette F" the first siglum! Joyce uses unselfconscious
script:
____
\ |
__|__
|
\ |
\|
3.11 "arms : shaft" within one of many sketches of Irish crosses. (cf.
lette F)
3.13 "the son's life repeats the father's. He does not see it. Make the
reader see it Past [something simple (not 'JSJ') overwritten with "she
said he replied"] Present J--- J--- Future ?" generations/ cycles
3.18 "the governor (father) Si D, LB, TMH," Ulysses 7.511, Myles
Crawford to SD
3.18 "For W real anniversary must be weekday" anniversary motif
3.18-19 "Is father 'take Queen Elizabeth out to the people's gardens in
the park with a 6 chambered revolver + blow her bloody brains out"
3.23 "Scot (Trist)" the Scot motif. non-esthete, unimaginative,
physical?
3.23 "Brit Irish Scot" maybe postscripted. male trio motif
3.24 "mendicant orders (SD) introduced 900/1000" JJ as devout beggar
3.26 "Trist picks up her handkerch with his foot" hanky motif,
seduction motif, refinement motif (Scot = beast?)
3.29 "Is - receives wounded dove from I and sends back. It is a
document from blown up record office" letter motif
A-Eumeus 350 "dissimulated himself behind door" adulterer's guilty
hidingplace
3.36 "description of Is's mouth" --> Painful
3.37-38 "S Patrick you have the my book Has she brought seen? her
mister brother the whose name" pidgin *and* Patrick
3.39 "they dissimulated themself (T + I)" T&I have become *a single
personality*
3.42-45 Vignette 3: Saint Kevin [In Nora's hand, dictated, 2nd eye
operation April 15] "St Kevin born on the Island of Ireland goes to
lough glendalough to live on an Island in the the lake and as there is a
pond on the island and a little island in the pond he builds this hut on
the islet and then scoops out the floor to a dept of one foot after
which he goes to the brink of the pond and fills his tub with water
which he emptys time after time into a cavity of his hut thereby forming
a pond having done which he half fills the tub sets it in the middle of
the pool, pulls up his frock and seats himself in the tub and meditates
with burning zeal the sacrament of baptism or regeneration by water"
Where ROC is *abandoned*, Kev abandons the world, especially the seductress (via the legend of S Kevin). He has his own take on the circlepath motif, gravitating centripetally to the center... of nowhere?
3.48 "Ruminants dodge gobbet R + L" L/R motif 3.48 "Children at play run lightly over earth, weep cf - solicitors" what a polarity! child/lawyer innocent/fallen the beast will come in either case... 3.51 "faults on both sides (T + I)" 3.52 "Defloration begins + ends with hate (cf T + I)" seduction motif 3.61 "Trist - He -- you? Is - (nods, nods, nods, ) 7 times" 3.61 "Is's Pop + Mop (Pa + Ma)" 3.63 "Mop spat in WC" the Kate-persona 3.64-65 "Culter of the thing in itself see the grass (r+o+y+b+i+v)" --> Berkeley vignette 3.72 "S.F (Cycl) calls by old place names" --> Mamalujo; Sinn Fein 3.77 "Let us talk about me (Trist)" 3.78 "wellmannered waves" waves motif 3.80 "Blanco Buckley is the wild goose" Ulysses 3.164 "Son of the wild goose, Kevin Egan..." Exile = Promethean stealer of fire, pursued by convention? Blanco = white, colours motif? 3.80 "Ul was slave of time, victim of adventures. Crowned his time is his own and he gives audience to adventures" Suppose this is the ur-HCE vignette: adventure descends on Hump in the form of the sailor king, but when crowned he watches the Gala from a box? power = esthetic control of your life! 3.80 "To reproduce the old men's glorious visions" war as theater? 3.81 "Crimea War (Buckley)" A-Circe 182 "why she frowned = hubby's lame excuse" A-Cyclops 94 "Clive Holland (O.W.'s son)" generations motif A-Sirens 2 "Tristan Tantris ?Tantrums" A-Sirens 3 "philtre love to hate, essence of Erin" A-Scylla 31 "well of English must be defiled Bethesda" A-Eolus 73 "vein of rage (lust) swelled" --> olive throb in T&I? A-Eolus 95 "Wake up, Dublin" Wake up, Finnegans! A-Telemachus 4 "SD seeks the contempt of the contemptible" A-Exiles2 1 "Mark + Trist change characters" Trist crowned, Mark reduced? A-Exiles2 2 "Trist + Is change clothes" with each other? A-Mother 2 "foremothers" (many matriarchy refs here under Mother) A-PainfulCase 5 "the noise of the explosion was so disagreeable that the night polishman retired into his box and slept" explosion motif A-PainfulCase 12 "his years made up of anniversaries" anniversary motif A-PainfulCase 22 "publishes description of Is" <-- 3.36 A-AfterRace 25 "I.R.A. paint grass green" grass motif, green motif gilding the lily, overzealous 3.82 "So Buckley shot the Russian general but who shot B--" 3.82 "T said ?negrily : I was that mad (he was ?furibund) I was that mad (he was foaming with rage) it was in the Crimea War on the Black Sea (it was raging with foam)" 3.85 "Ecoute, said I, ecoute ecoute" ecoute motif 3.87 "Trist [has]Around here the Joyces went to London (June 16) and met up with Harriet Weaver, and Nora's sister Kathleen.a silver arm " 1-arm motif 3.92-93 "7 degrees of wisdom then ollave" (Maybe Berk has eight colours???) 3.93 "ollave can wear same number of hues as king" 3.94 "a phrase spoken 1500 AC repeated 1923 AD" repetition motif 3.94-95 "annalists repeat themselves" repetition motif 3.101 "wake story" 3.106 "Lapoleon" lap motif 3.108-109 "3 generations to make a gentleman (Guido Cavalcanti)" generations motif 3.118 "useful arm" 1-arm motif 3.121 "Man follows Is" a mystery... who? 3.122 "Been here before (T + I)" cycles motif 3.123 "Mum-- letterwriter"
A-Circe 192 "Threestar and Eyesold" an odd early pun A-Circe 225 "SD has angel guardian + devil" decision motif A-Nausikaa 73 "explosion zone of audibility, silence audibility" explosion motif (why Nausikaa???) A-Nausikaa 80 "W said she must go and he asked her why and she said she must really and he asked but why must she and she said really and truly she must" decision motif A-Sirens 10 "encore get smthg for nothing" Scot motif A-Proteus 25 "JFB ?mute poet : SD gentleman wordsharper" Byrne = Shaun? A-Exiles1 1 "Presiozo thought anniversaries silly" anniversary motif A-Exiles1 2 "on the N.E. slope of the dunghill the slanteyed hen of the Grogans scrutinised a clayed p.c. from Boston (Mass) of the 12th of the 4th to dearest Elly from her loving sister with 4 1/2 kisses" A-Grace 4 "S. Patrick drove serpent from Ireland before he had time to whisper his secret in W's ear- hinc illae lacrimae" A-Grace 6 "how do you do, Mr Patrick" howdy motif A-Grace 7 "Kevin tells story of Patrick (WBY + GM)" Yeats and George Moore A-Eveline 11-13 "she walked alone from school. told her friends pop walked zigzag: man followed" a cluster of puzzles An inventory: A-Sisters 15 "Story of the invalid pensioner" A-Sisters 16 "the story of the pious haberdasher in heaven" A-Sisters 17 "the story of how Buckley shot the Russian general" A-Sisters 18 "the story of Tristan and Isolde" A-Sisters 19 "the story of the house of the 100 bottles" A-Sisters 20 "the story of the methodist minister of Monkstown" 3.129 "2 Tristans (Doppel ganger)" 3.129 "T+I melts into Mayor of Galway" singular, shifting identities, status 3.131 "Is dream of last day : visions of T---" apocalypse motif 3.131 "Setting - a wake!" a '?' overwrites the '!' 3.135 "Convert topedos with electrical contact land mines by tins of ammonia, lashed to sides of aerial torpedoes trip wires to contact ?pitch into electric batteries : minefield : bombing post" explosion motifA run of 50 very literal notes on Bedier's Tristan, including Tristan as an illiterate letterwriter, and probably the sparrows goldenhair as the anonymous letter of seduction.
A-Penelope 103 "like all bad men he looks attractive" A-Penelope 108 "boydobelong (Bois)" Bois de Boulogne A-Penelope 109 "mystery of a handsome cad : (cab)" A-Penelope 124 "W - ecoute or don't keep me!" ecoute motif A-Calypso 3 "Are Ulysses' adventures 12 diseases" A-Exiles2 28 "Rich and Rob change" Exiles A-Eveline 41 "analfabeta" Bedier note reclassified, with gender swap A-Eveline 46 "her letter, illustrated" letter motif A-Sisters 33 "a simpleton's error must be repeated" repetition motif 3.148 "F - F - through foliage" face-to-face grass motif? 3.149 "my beautiful face (Trist)" 3.153 "It is not true that Pop was homosexual he had been arrested at the request of some nursemaids to whom he had temporarily exposed himself in the Temple gardens" Frank Harris on Oscar Wilde's Pop, part of an OW cluster suggesting JJ read Harris here 3.153 "Is sees man behind by looking at her shoes (mirror)" optically problematic. (man behind her, or man's behind?)The following notes were copied into Scribbledehobble in 1926, when more than 100 pages of B25 were destroyed. The later sigla would have been substituted at this time.
A-Personal 503 "earwigs carry away dead" A-Personal 504 "$E reads guests' letters" 1st sign of hotellier A-Personal 531 "history told by parrot" repetition motif 25.81/57 [not copied] "*** Earwicker" oldest for-sure-not-postscripted Earwicker reference 25.94/70 "Nowhere Tavern" 25.105/81 "Finn's Hotel" 25.106/82 "House that Finn Built" A-Penelope "dream eclipse end of world" A-Eumeus "love = desire to with 1 particular person before you really know" lust motif A-Circe 262 "unknown beggar comes to bigtimer in day of triumph to tell of a past betise" Since this is Bognor, might it tie in to VI.B.1 p163: "Sunday evg Bognor (cad)"? A-Circe 263 "while she was shaving" matriarchy motif A-Sirens 17 "decided most decidedly, her steel incisive ?heelrings rung trim as from him she marched, slim in decision, prim and precisely as she marched from him for whom decisively as she decided she arched herself from brow to heelrings less* incisively supple and slim in indecision" decision motif A-Scylla 39 "dream thoughts are wake thoughts of centuries ago" A-Scylla 40-44 "unconscious memory : great recurrence : race memories : repressions : fixations" A-Scylla 75 "AE Lurgan (Armagh) 1867 aet 56, WBY 58 GBS 67. GM 71 (1923)" A-Exiles2 78 "Tr. and Sy wander in U boat" to torpedo Mark's waterhouse??? Is 'Sy' the evil Issy? A-Exiles2 90 "whisper = ecoutez" ecoute motif, whisper motif A-Exiles2 91 "Tantris is shadow of Tristan (EP)" A-Painful 33 "takes Is for walk, explains" this must be Duffy in Dubliners, kissing off Mrs Sinico A-Sisters 69 "Begin a story of A+B, then B+C, C+D." the rumorpath A-Hades 20 "Scot pleased all free gratis etc." free funeral? Scot motif A-Exiles1 38 "threw tea in sisters face" A-Eolus 131 "what I'm afraid may be said to me I had better say first myself"Based on the placement of the "by and large" note under A-Words, this extension to the T&I vignette was written only at this late date, which had to have been before July 19, when he sent ROC to HSW, saying he had to copy something (this, maybe in an even-later form) from the back of the ROC first draft. The poem is JJ's faithloststatement "Nightpiece", supposedly written in 1915, based on a dream of Notre Dame & Amelia Popper (see Giacomo Joyce).]
--I'm so glad to have met you, Tris, she said, awfully bucked by the
experience of the love embrace from a notoriety like him who was
evidently a notoriety also in the poetry for he never saw an orange
but he thought of a porringer and to cut a long story short taking him
by and large he meant everything to her just then, being her beau
ideal of a true girl friend, handsome musical composer a thoroughbred
Pomeranian lapdog, a box of crystallised ginger and nay even the Deity
Itself strewing, the ?strikingly shining, the twittingly twinkling,
and (as her he truly remarked) the lamplights of lovers.
Up they gazed, ?skyword, while in her ear that loveless lover
breathed:
Gaunt in gloom The pale stars their torches Enshrouded wave Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume Arches on soaring arches, Night's sindark nave Seraphim The pale stars awaken To service till In moonless gloom each lapses, muted, dim Raised when she has & shaken Her thurible As long and loud To night's nave upsoaring A starknell tolls As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud, Voidward from the adoring Waste of souls"--Go away from me instantly, she cried.
She seems at first to have been reacting against T's poetry! Is it too beautiful? Too cynical/ decadent? Does it reveal to her his lovelessness?
At some point Joyce drafted this extension to the Kevin vignette:
As an infant Kevineen delighted himself by playing with the sponge on tubbing night. As a growing boy he grew more & more pious and abstracted like the time God knows he sat down on the plate of mutton broth. He simply had no time for girls and often used to say that his dearest mother & his dear sisters were ?good enough for him. At the age of six he wrote a prize essay on kindness to fishes.
A-Exiles2 95 "le beau T carries letter : exemplary nephew" Tristan wore Is's goldenhair in his lapel during his bride-for-Mark quest A-Exiles2 98 "Trist no father" A-Exiles2 99 "Mark erotic swallow passes with hair in beak" letter- seduction A-Exiles2 107 "T steps aside + has a look at himself" objectivity or vanity?Vignette 4: Berkeley and Patrick [Last weeks of July, medium-fine nib] "The archdruid then explained the illusion of the colourful world, its furniture, animal, vegetable and mineral, appearing to fallen men under but one reflection of the several iridal gradations of solar light, that one which it had been unable to absorb while for the seer beholding reality, the thing as in itself it is, all objects showed themselves in their true colours, resplendent with the sextuple glory of the light actually contained within them. To eyes so unsealed King Leary's fiery locks appeared of the colour of sorrel green, His Majesty's saffron kilt of the hue of brewed spinach, the royal golden breasttorc of the tint of curly cabbage, the verdant mantle of the monarch as of the green of laurel boughs, the commanding azure eyes of a thyme and parsley aspect, the enamelled gem of the ruler's ring as a rich lentil, the violet contusions of the prince's feature tinged uniformly as with an infusion of sennacassia." Oddly, this vignette *has no setting*!
Revised ending of T&I extension, substituting for exxed-out poem, a near- pure pastiche of B3 notes [these three passages may fit together in some different order, or one may be meant for insertion into another]:
"How gentle and kind I am, Issy. I never hurt the feelings of another. And, I say, what a lovely nature is mine!" This appears to replace the poem, along with the following:
"It wasn't *exactly* anything he said or it wasn't anything he exactly did but all the same it was something about him like the way he was always sticking his finger into his trousers pocket and then sticking it into his eye like a bonny baby, the great big slob that she let out a whistle or the once she dropped her ittle hankyfuss and the way so graceful he picked it up with his hoof and footed it up politefully to her ittle ?nibblenose." So now it's the bad manners that pique her, not the poem:
"--Go away from me instantly you thing, she roared. Curse your stinking
putrid soul & all belonged to you, you scum! Forget me not!
--Perfect, you bloody bitch, he said.
He took leave of her and circulated as bidden before many instants had
passed.
--No, come back, she cried. Hearing his name called ?he most sagaciously
ceased to walk about and turned, his look now charged with purpose.
--How sweetly you have* responded to ?us. I so want you.
--It ?is ?perfect, her nephew, who was very continental, said, ?stopped
?& circulated at ?a walker's pace in an ?opposed ?direction."
A-Exiles2 119 "M aged 56 years : le bon roi" A-Exiles2 121 "Mark on a calvary looks out" Mark = ROC = crucified Christ (why "a" calvary???) A-Exiles2 123 "Trist misogynist verse" *later* than Nightpiece? A-Exiles2 124 "3 drops for Mark and bonhomie sinistre" --> quarks! the toasters are also jealous plotters A-Exiles2 132 "saw Trist at gala in Gaiety TMH in box" SD/JJ sneaking to theater instead of school? cf 3.80 A-Exiles2 141 "Song in dream" A-Exiles2 143 "Mark blind when sees T + I do it" cf. Bedier A-Exiles1 42 "I hate you, I love you, I love your chuckly neck" neck motif A-Eveline 64 "Is milked Dan Tallon-- without indecent exposure-- near Fox and Geese every Tuesday and Friday" DT was mayor of Dublin 1899, mentioned in Ulysses 4.128, 17.444. fox-and-geese motif girl/whore and much older, distinguished man? HCE and Issies in park? Might JJ have heard some gossip about the ex-Mayor?By this point all the vignettes but T&I had been typed by HSW. Apparently T&I was sent to her on August 12.