13 (U163.510)

 Buck Mulligan thought, puzzled:

13th cast. Page 163, line 510.

 

　Buck Mulligan thought, puzzled:

　—Shakespeare? he said. I seem to know the name.

　A flying sunny smile rayed in his loose features.

　—To be sure, he said, remembering brightly. The chap that writes like Synge.

 

 Episode 9. At the National Library, Director Lister, Stephen, Best, and Eglinton are discussing Shakespeare. Stephen's roommate, Mulligan, has just walked in.

 

Mulligan who can not be ignorant of Shakespeare, was playing dumb.

 

Mulligan had promised to meet Stephen at the Ship tavern, but Stephen telegraphed to the Ship and told Mulligan that he would not be there. 

I am not sure why Mulligan came to the library.

 

John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was an Irish playwright, poet and novelist. He is best known for his travelogue, The Aran Islands. I'm not clear on how it's interesting to compare Shakespeare to Synge; Is it an alliteration of S?

John Millington Synge

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12 (U290.264)

But Edy got as cross as two sticks

Twelfth cast. Page 290, line 264.

 

But Edy got as cross as two sticks about him getting his own way like that from everyone always petting him.

　—I’d like to give him something, she said, so I would, where I won’t say.

　—On the beeoteetom, laughed Cissy merrily.

Episode13. The beach at Sandymount. Three little girls are babysitting a child.

Edy Boardman has her baby in a carriage. Cissy Caffrey brings her twin brothers, Tommy and Jacky. Edy is angry because Tommy wants the baby's ball.

 

The word "but" is appropriate for the style of popular novel.

 

The phrase "as cross as two sticks" is a play on the two senses of cross, ‘bad-tempered’ and ‘intersecting’.

 

Cissy avoided saying “bottom” and rephrase it as B-O-T-Tom.

 

Joyce explained that the four words (1) because, (2) bottom, (3) woman, and (4) yes represent the four cardinal points of womanhood, and he used them a lot in Episode 18. (Letter to Frank Budgen, 16 August, 1921)  Many "because" are used also in Episode 13.

Sandymount

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What lay under exposure on the lower, middle and upper shelves of the kitchen dresser

Eleventh cast. Page 551, line 299.

 

　What lay under exposure on the lower, middle and upper shelves of the kitchen dresser, opened by Bloom?

 　On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.

 

 In Episode 17, from beginning to end, a pedantic question-and-answer style is used.

 

A moustachecup is a tea cup with a guard to keep the moustache dry. This was a gift from his daughter, Millie, to Mr. Bloom for his birthday. Crown Derby is an English brand of fine china, but this was a fake. (U51.283)

 

Mr. Bloom opened the shelves of the kitchen dresser, to make some cocoa for Stephen, who he had brought home with him.

 moustache cup

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