22 (U151.26)

Smile. Smile Cranly’s smile.

22nd cast. page 151, line 26.


Smile. Smile Cranly’s smile. 

   First he tickled her

   Then he patted her

   Then he passed the female catheter

   For he was a medical 

   Jolly old medi...

 

The first part of Episode 9. Stephen discusses Shakespeare at the National Library with Eglinton and others.

 

This song is according to Gifford's annotations (Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Don Gifford and Robert J. Seidman. University of California Press. 1988) is a part of Oliver St. John Gogarty's playful song "Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy". As far as I can find, the following passage (U172.908) seems to be the same, but I cannot find the passage mentioned above. It might be Joyce's creation.

 

   Then outspoke medical Dick

   To his comrade medical Davy...

 

Gogarty is the model for Mulligan, Stephen's roommate and a medical student.

 

Just before this, when Eglinton teased Stephen about whether he had found six medical students to dictate his creation for him, he thought of a playful song about medical students.

 

The first line, "smile," is a noun or a verb. It's  a verb, I guess.

 

The repetition of smile”。Footnote of her, herand catheter.

 

Who is Cranley?

 

He is a friend of Stephen from his University College days, who appears in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which describes the period preceding Ulysses. Cranley is based on John Francis Byrne (1880-1960), who was Joyce's closest friend. 


I'm not sure why Cranley is mentioned here.

 

I traced Cranley's appearance in A Portrait. Cranley is smiling in two scenes. "He just listened to me in silence," he smiles like a priest. I think Stephen was trying to catch Eglinton's teasing with Cranly's smile.

 

One more thing. As a biographical fact, Joyce became friends with Gogarty in late 1902, at a time when he and Byrne had fallen out. (James Joyce,1959) He may have associated Gogarty with the smile of Byrne (Cranley).

 

John Francis Byrne

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