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Joyce Schema
Because people didn't understand what Ulysses was about, Joyce drew up a schema which explained each chapter
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Title |
Scene |
Hour |
Organ |
Art |
Colour |
Symbol |
Technic |
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1
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Telemachus |
The Tower |
8 a.m. |
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Theology |
White,
gold |
Heir |
Narrative
(young) |
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2
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Nestor |
The School |
10 a.m. |
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History |
Brown |
Horse |
Catechism
(personal) |
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3
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Proteus |
The Strand |
11 a.m. |
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Philology |
Green |
Tide |
Monologue
(male) |
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4
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Calypso |
The House |
8 a.m. |
Kidney |
Economics |
Orange |
Nymph |
Narrative
(mature) |
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5
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Lotuseaters |
The Bath |
10 a.m. |
Genitals |
Botany,
Chemistry |
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Eucharist |
Narcissism |
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6
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Hades |
The Graveyard |
11 a.m. |
Heart |
Religion |
White,
black |
Caretaker |
Incubism |
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7
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Aeolus |
The Newspaper |
12 noon |
Lungs |
Rhetoric |
Red |
Editor |
Enthymemic |
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8
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Lestrygonians |
The Lunch |
1 p.m. |
Eosophagus |
Architecture |
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Constables |
Peristaltic |
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9
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Scylla and Charybdis |
The Library |
2 p.m. |
Brain |
Literature |
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Stratford,
London |
Dialectic |
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10
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Wandering Rocks |
The Streets |
3 p.m. |
Blood |
Mechanics |
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Citizens |
Labyrinth |
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11
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Sirens |
The Concert Room |
4 p.m. |
Ear |
Music |
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Barmaids |
Fuga per
canonem |
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12
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Cyclops |
The Tavern |
5 p.m. |
Muscle |
Politics |
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Fenian |
Gigantism |
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13
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Nausicaa |
The Rocks |
8 p.m. |
Eye, Nose |
Painting |
Grey, blue |
Virgin |
Tumescence,
detumescence |
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14
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Oxen of
the Sun |
The Hospital |
10 p.m. |
Womb |
Medicine |
White |
Mothers |
Embryonic
development |
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15
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Circe |
The Brothel |
12
midnight |
Locomotor Apparatus |
Magic |
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Whore |
Hallucination |
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16
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Eumaeus |
The Shelter |
1 a.m. |
Nerves |
Navigation |
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Sailors |
Narrative
(old) |
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17
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Ithaca |
The House |
2 a.m. |
Skeleton |
Science |
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Comets |
Catechism
(impersonal) |
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18
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Penelope |
The Bed |
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Flesh |
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Earth |
Monologue
(female) |
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