Smile. Smile Cranly’s smile.
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”, “her” and “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).
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