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James Joyce's schemata for Ulysses

Jorn Barger May 2000

[The 1920 Linati (black, below) is transcribed (in Italian) and translated with page images in Ellmann's Ulysses on the Liffey. The 1921 Gilbert/Gorman (green, below) plus Linati are reproduced in JJA12.]


[I. DAWN] I. Telemachia 1 2 3 Title: Telemachus Nestor Proteus Scene: The Tower The School The Strand Hour: 8-9 8 a.m. 9-10 10 a.m. 10-11 11 a.m. Color: gold, white chestnut brown blue green Persons: Telemachus Nestor Proteus Antinous Telemachus Menelaus Mentor, Pallas Pisistratus Helen The Suitors Helen Megapenthes Penelope (Mother) Telemachus Correspondences: Stephen-Telemachus-Hamlet Deasy-Nestor Proteus-Primal Matter Buck Mulligan-Antinous Pisistratus-Sargent Kevin Egan-Menelaus Milkwoman-Mentor Helen-Mrs O'Shea Megapenthus-the Cocklepicker Technic: Dialogue of 3 & 4 Dialogue of 2 Soliloquy Narration, Soliloquy Narration, Soliloquy narrative (young) catechism (personal) monologue (male) Science, Art: Theology History Philology Sense (Meaning): The dispossessed The wisdom of Prima materia son in struggle the old world [Greek: PROTEUS] Organ - - - - - - Telemachus doesn't yet bear a body - - - - - - Symbol: Hamlet Ulster Word, Tide, Moon Ireland Woman Evolution Stephen Common Sense Metamorphosis heir horse tide


[II. MORNING] II. Odyssey 1 (4) 2 (5) 3 (6) Title: Calypso Lotus-eaters Hades Scene: The House The Bath The Graveyard Hour: 8-9 8 a.m. 9-10 10 a.m. 10-11 11 a.m. Color: orange [brown] [none] black-white Persons: Calypso (Penelope Eurylochus Ulysses, Elpenor, Ajax 'wife') Polites Agamemnon, Hercules, Eriphyle Ulysses Ulysses Sisyphus, Orion, Laertes etc Callidike Nausikaa (2) Prometheus, Cerberus, Tiresias Hades, Persephone Telemachus, Antinous Correspondences: Calypso-The Nymph Lotuseaters-Cabhorses, Dodder, Grand and Royal Dlugacz-The Recall Communicants, Soldiers, Canals, Liffey -The 4 Rivers Zion-Ithaca Eunuchs, Bather, Cunningham-Sisyphus Watchers of Cricket Father Coffey-Cerberus Caretaker-Hades Daniel O'Connell-Hercules Dignam-Elpenor : Parnell-Agamemnon Mentor-Ajax Technic: Dialogue of 1 Dialogue Narration Soliloquy Soliloquy Dialogues Prayer narrative (mature) narcissism incubism Science, Art: [Mythology] economics Chemistry botany religion Sense (Meaning): The departing The Seduction Descent to Nothing traveller of the Faith Organ: the Kidney[s] [Skin] genitals Heart Symbol: Vagina, Exile Host, Penis in bath Cemetery, Sacred Heart Family, Nymph Foam, Flower, Drugs The Past, The Unknown Man Israel in bondage Castration, Oats The Unconscious, Heart trouble, Relics, Heartbreak nymph eucharist caretaker


[NOON] 4 (7) 5 (8) 6 (9) Title: Eolus Lestrygonians Scylla & Charybdis Scene: The Newspaper The Lunch The Library Hour: 11-1 12 noon 1-2 1 p.m. 2-3 2 p.m. Color: red [blood] [none] [none] Persons: Eolus, Sons Antiphates Scylla & Charybdis Telemachus The seductive daughter Ulysses, Telemachus Mentor, Ulysses (2) Ulysses Antinous Correspondences: Crawford-Eolus Antiphates-Hunger The Rock-Aristotle, Incest-journalism The Decoy-Food Dogma, Stratford Floating Island-press Lestrygonians-Teeth The whirlpool-Plato, Mysticism, London Ulysses-Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare Technic: Deliberative oratory Peristaltic Whirlpools Forensic oratory prose Public oratory, Tropes enthymemic peristaltic dialectic Science, Art: Rhetoric Architecture Literature Sense (Meaning): The Mockery Dejection Two-edged dilemma of Victory Organ: lungs esophagus brain Symbol: Machines, Wind Bloody sacrifice Hamlet, Shakespeare, Christ Hunger, Kite foods, shame Socrates, London & Stratford Failed Destinies Scholasticism & Mysticism Press, Mutability Plato & Aristotle Youth & Maturity editor constables Stratford, London


[DAY: Central Point - Umbilicus] 7 (10) 8 (11) 9 (12) Title: Wandering Rocks Sirens Cyclops Scene: The Streets The Concert Room The Tavern Hour: 3-4 3 p.m. 4-5 4 p.m. 5-6 5 p.m. Color: rainbow [none] coral [none] green [none] Persons: Objects, Places Leucothea, Parthenope Prometheus Forces, Ulysses Ulysses, Orpheus No one (I) Menelaus, The Argonauts Ulysses, Galatea Correspondences: Bosphorus-Liffey Sirens-barmaids Noman-I European bank-Viceroy Isle-bar Stake-cigar Asiatic bank-Conmee challenge-apotheosis Symplegades-Groups of citizens Technic: Labyrinth moving Fuga per Canonem Alternating symmetry between two banks labyrinth fuga per canonem gigantism Science, Art: Mechanics Music Surgery politics Sense (Meaning): The Hostile The Sweet Cheat The Egocidal Terror Environment Organ: blood ear (1) muscle[s] [(2) bones] Symbol: Christ & Caesar Promises, Woman Nation, State, Religion Errors, Homonyms Sounds Dynasty, Idealism Synchronizations Embellishments Exaggeration Resemblances Fanaticism, Collectivity citizens barmaids fenian


10 (13) 11 (14) 12 (15) Title: Nausikaa Oxen of Sun Circe Scene: The Rocks The Hospital The Brothel Hour: 8-9 8 p.m. 10-11 10 p.m. 11-12 12 midnight Color: grey blue white [violet] Persons: Nausikaa, Handmaidens Lampetie, Phaethusa Circe, The Beasts Alcinous, Arete Helios Hyperion Telemachus Ulysses Jove, Ulysses Ulysses, Hermes Correspondences: Phaecia-Star of the Sea Hospital-Trinacria Circe-Bella Gerty-Nausikaa Lampetie, Phaethusa-Nurses Helios-Horne Oxen-Fertility Crime-Fraud Technic: Retrogressive Prose (Embryo- Vision animated progression Foetus-Birth) to burstingpoint tumescence, embryonic development hallucination detumescence Science, Art: Painting [Physic] medicine [Dance] magic Sense (Meaning): The Projected Mirage The Eternal Flocks The Man-fearing Orc Organ Eye, Nose [Matrix, Uterus] Locomotor apparatus womb [Skeleton] Symbol: Onanism, Female Fecundation, Frauds Zoology, personification Hypocrisy Parthenogenesis pantheism, magic, poison antidote, reel virgin mothers whore


[These three chapters were totally rewritten after the Linati schema was drawn up.]

[III. MIDNIGHT (Fusion of Bloom and Stephen) (Ulys. & Tel.)] III. Nostos
 
              1 (16)         2 (17)                  3 (18)
Title:       Eumeus          Ithaca                 Penelope
Scene:    The Shelter      The House                 The Bed
Hour:     12-1 1 a.m.      1-2 2 a.m.            [infinity] [none]
Color:    [none]      [none starry milky]   [starry milky then new dawn]
Persons:
    Eumeus, Ulysses     Ulysses, Telemachus       Laertes, Ulysses
     Telemachus        Eurycleia, The Suitors       Penelope
  The Bad Shepherd
 Ulysses Pseudangelos
 
Correspondences:
   Eumeus-Skin the Goat     Eurymachus-Boylan     Penelope-Earth
Sailor-Ulysses Pseudangelos  Suitors-scruples      Web-Movement
    Melanthius-Corley          Bow-reason
 
Technic:
     Relaxed prose              Dialogue            Monologue
                         Pacified style, Fusion    Resigned style
    narrative (old)      catechism (impersonal)   monologue (female)
 
Science, Art:
     navigation                 science               [none]
 
Sense (Meaning):
  The Ambush at Home         The Armed Hope      The Past Sleeps
 
Organ    Nerves             [Juices] skeleton       [Fat] flesh
Symbol:  sailors                comets                 earth
 
           Deep Night - Dawn
             /            \
     Ulysses (Bloom)  Telemachus (Stephen)


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Ulysses:
chapters: summary : anchors : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12a 12b 13 14a 14b 15a 15b 15c 15d 16a 16b 17a 17b 18a 18b
notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
reference: Bloom : clocktime : prices : schemata : Tower : riddles : errors : Homeric parallels : [B-L Odyssey] : Eolus tropes : parable : Oxen : Circe : 1904 : Thom's : Gold Cup : Seaside Girls : M'appari : acatalectic : search
riddles: overview : Rudy : condom : Gerty : Hades : Strand : murder : Eccles
maps: Ulysses : WRocks : Strand : VR tour : aerial tour : Dublin : Leinster : Ireland : Europe
editing: etexts : lapses : Gabler : capitals : commas : compounds : deletes : punct : typists
drafts: prequel : Proteus : Cyclops : Circe
closereadings: notes : Oxen : Circe

Joyce: main : fast portal : portal
major: FW : Pomes : U : PoA : Ex : Dub : SH : CM : CM05 : CM04
minor: Burner : [Defoe] : [Office] : PoA04 : Epiph : Mang : Rab
bio: timeline : 1898-1904 : [Trieste] : eyesight : schools : Augusta
vocation: reading : tastes : publishers : craft : symmetry
people: 1898-1904 gossip : 1881 gossip : Nora : Lucia : Gogarty : Byrne : friends : siblings : Stannie
maps: Dublin : Leinster : Ireland : Europe : Paris : Ulysses
images: directory : [Ruch]
motifs: ontology : waves : lies : wanking : MonaLisa : murder
Irish lit: timeline : 100poems : Ireland : newspapers : gossip : Yeats : MaudG : AE : the Household : Theosophy : Eglinton : Ideals
classics: Shakespeare : Dante : Pre-Raphaelites : Homer : Patrick
industry: Bloomsday : [movies] : Ellmann : Rose : genetics : NewGame
website: account : theory : early : old links : slow-portal fast-portal

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