31 (U349.1574)

 Lynch! Hey? Sign on long o’ me.

 31st cast. page 349, line 1574.

Lynch! Hey? Sign on long o’ me. Denzille lane this way. Change here for Bawdyhouse. We two, she said, will seek the kips where shady Mary is. Righto, any old time. Laetabuntur in cubilibus suis. You coming long? Whisper, who the sooty hell’s the johnny in the black duds?

 

Episode 14. It is about eleven o'clock at night. After leaving the National Maternity Hospital, Stephen, Mr Bloom and a group of medical students go out for a drink at the nearby Burke's pub. Stephen, Lynch and Mr. Bloom, who is following them, are now on their way to the 'Night town', the brothel district.

Episode14 traces the stylistic history of English prose from the past to the present in the form of stylistic copying. This is the last part of the episode, which is a mixture of colloquialisms, slang, and dialects around the year 1904.  It is written in such a way that it is not clear who is saying which lines.

A simple re-write might look something like this

 

Stephen: Lynch!

Lynch: What is it?

Stephen: Join along of me, towards Denzil lane. Here let's change to the brothel. "We two, she said, will seek the kips where shady Mary is".

The phrase "We two, she said, will seek the kips where shady Mary is" is from a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), The Blessed Damozel (1850).

       Stephen turns the mystical and sacred into the vulgar.

The poem is about a maiden who dies young and pines from the balustrade of the palaces of heaven for the lover she left behind on earth.

 

"We two," she said, "will seek the groves　　

Where the lady Mary is,

With her five handmaidens, whose names

Are five sweet symphonies,

Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen,

Margaret and Rosalys.

 

Lynch: Right you are. I'm ready anytime..

Stephen: ”Laetabuntur in cubilibus suis.”

     This phrase comes from Psalm (149.5) of the Old Testament.

 Exsultabunt sancti in gloria; 

lætabuntur in cubilibus suis. 

       　  (The saints shall rejoice in glory:

　　　　they shall be joyful in their beds.) 

 This means that the saints of Israel should rejoice because of the glory that has been restored to them, and sing for joy not only during the day, but also at night in your beds

 Stephen perverted and turned a sacred verse into a vulgar one. 

Lynch: (To Mr. Bloom) Will you come along with me?  (whispering to Stephen ) Who's that asshole in the black suit?　　

    The first half is talking to Mr. Bloom, the second half is talking to Stephen.

    Mr. Bloom attended the funeral of his friend Dignam this morning, so he is         
    wearing mourning clothes.

It's a passage we might skip, but I'd never expect to find so many different things.

The Blessed Damozel painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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30 (U162.476)

He goes back, weary of the creation

30th cast. page 162, line 476.

He goes back, weary of the creation he has piled up to hide him from himself, an old dog licking an old sore. But, because loss is his gain, he passes on towards eternity in undiminished personality, untaught by the wisdom he has written or by the laws he has revealed. His beaver is up.

 

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Episode 9. Stephen's dialogue or thoughts discussing Hamlet in the library. The subject of Episode 9 is a play, and Stephen is playing himself. So we don't know if this is really what he thinks.

 

I think he “He”, in this passage, means Shakespeare.

 

As I wrote in the 21st post of this blog, Stephen's theory equates Shakespeare with the father-king of Hamlet.

 

Shakespeare was seduced by Anne Hathaway, and had to marry her. His wife Anne had an illicit relationship with Shakespeare's brother Richard. This relationship is thrown into Hamlet.

 The father-king, Hamlet, was assassinated by his brother, Claudius, and the king's wife, Gertrude, married Claudius.

 It is very difficult to figure out what the passage in this blog means. Considering the 21st post of the blog, I've come to the conclusion that it means the followings.

Joyce considers the following two relationships to be parallel

                Creator --- Created Object
            A.  God     ---   The world
            B.  Artist   ---   His/her works
                (e.g. Shakespeare)  ---  (e.g. Hamlet)

And the following father-son relationships are considered in parallel.

                Father          ---   Son

            a. God              ---   His consubstantial son, Christ

            b. Shakespeare  ---   His alter ego, the father-king Hamlet

            c. The father-king Hamlet ---  His son. prince Hamlet

Consubstantiality is a concept that explains the theory of the Trinity, that the Father (God), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit are essentially one entity, although they have three hypostasis.

This term is used six times in Ulysses. (U17.658) (U32.50) (U32.62) (U162.481) (U321.308) and (U558.538). It is one of the key words in this novel.

 "Old sore" refer to the emotional scars inflicted on Anne.

 Shakespeare, by reflecting the wounds of his heart and all his experiences in his creation, has built behind his works the status of a god-like immortal writer.

 "Loss is his gain", which means that his various traumas and conflicts depicted in his works are his gain as an author.

 

Joyce considered following relationship in parallel with A and B.

                 Creator  ---   Created Object
            C.  Joyce     ---   His works
                                   (e.g. Ulysses)

and. considered following relationship in parallel with in parallel with a b and c.

                Father      ---   Son

            d. Joyce        ---   His alter ego, Stephen

            e. Mr. Bloom  ---   His fictional son, Stephen

            

He was relentlessly obsessed with himself, his family, and his native Dublin, and tried to become a god-like creator by reflecting all of his personal surroundings in his works. This passage may explain why he wrote works like "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake".

 A beaver is a shield that protects the face in Western armor. This is a quotation from Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2. The ghost of the father-king, who appears before Hamlet's confidant Horatio and his colleagues, is clad in armor and his beaver is raised.

HAMLET.

Arm’d, say you?

BOTH.

Arm’d, my lord.

HAMLET.

From top to toe?

BOTH.

My lord, from head to foot.

HAMLET.

Then saw you not his face?

HORATIO.

O yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.

 

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 2)

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29 (U30.449)

 —She never let them in, 

29th cast. page 30, line 449.

 

—She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter as he stamped on gaitered feet over the gravel of the path. That’s why.

 　On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.

 

Episode 2. It was about ten in the morning. Stephen is a teacher at a private school in Dorky, and today he got his payment from the headmaster, Garrett Deasy. Conversation between Stephen and Deasy.

 

Garrett Deasy is a Protestant from Ulster. Most of the characters in Ulysses are from the lower middle class, but Daisy is from the comparatively upper class.

 

He says here that England is the only country that did not persecute the Jews because it did not allow them to enter the country.

 

“She" refers to England and "them" refers to the Jews.

 

Mr. Bloom, another main character who appears from Episode 4, is a Jewish man. Deasy's theory is a false foreshadow of Mr. Bloom's appearance.

 

Gaiters are a military garment worn around the shins. They were widely used in the civilian sector as well as the military until around World War II.I don't understand the implications of why Deasy is wearing the gaiters.

 

There are two people who wear gaiters in Ulysses. They are Deasy and Boylan, the lover of Mr. Bloom's wife. (U302.801) (U639.1422)

 

Joyce may have gaiters on the respective enemies of the main characters, Stephen and Mr. Bloom.

 

The coins that fall on Deasy's shoulders are connected to the wages that Stephen received today.

 

This is the end of Episode 2, and it is one of the best scenes in the novel. Very beautiful text.

 

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28 (U327.593)

So be off now, says he, 

28th cast. page 327, line 593.

 

So be off now, says he, and do all my cousin german the lord Harry tells you and take a farmer’s blessing, and with that he slapped his posteriors very soundly. But the slap and the blessing stood him friend, says Mr Vincent, for to make up he taught him a trick worth two of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm that they would rather any time of the month whisper in his ear in the dark of a cowhouse or get a lick on the nape from his long holy tongue than lie with the finest strapping young ravisher in the four fields of all Ireland.

Stephen, Mr. Bloom, and the medical students are chatting in the lounge of the National Maternity Hospital.

Episode 14  traces the stylistic history of English prose from the past to the present with stylistic sketches. This section is attributed to the style of Jonathan Swift's  The Tale of a Tub (1704). A text of allegory and satire.

In correspondence with the motifs in The Odyssey, the maternity hospital is on the island of Trinacie, the island of the sun god. Odysseus' men eat the sun god's domestic cattle, despite being forbidden to do so.

 

Therefore, the bull appears as a major motif in Episode 14.

 

The word "bull" means (1) an adult male of domestic cattle, (2) an encyclical of the Pope, and (3) a typical Englishman as John Bull. In the passage before and after this, the history of the Pope, the King of England, and Ireland is discussed in relation to cattle. This is a tough passage to decipher.

 

In the first sentence, “he” is Nicholas, a farmer, who says to the bull, "So be off now". Nicholas is Pope Hadrian IV, and the bull seems to be referring to the Catholic Church and the Pope's encyclical. Harry is King Henry II.

So be off now, says he, and do all my cousin german the lord Harry tells you and take a farmer’s blessing, and with that he slapped his posteriors very soundly. 

 

Hadrian IV (ca. 1100 - 1159) was the only Pope (reigned 1154 - 1159) from England. His real name was Nicholas Breakspear. In 1155, Hadrian IV issued a papal bull called Laudabiliter, authorizing King Henry II of England to invade Ireland.  He wanted to bring the Church of Ireland, where heresy was widespread, under the Catholic Church and cultivate the whole island.

 

Henry II (1133 - 1189), King of England, invaded Ireland in 1171 and became the first King of England to land in Ireland. He became the first Lord of Ireland and forced the Irish kings to swear an oath of obedience.

 

"Mr Vincent" is Vincent Lynch, a medical student and Stephen's friend. The second sentence is his narrative, referring to Henry II's invasion of Ireland and his indoctrination by the Catholic Church.

But the slap and the blessing stood him friend, says Mr Vincent, for to make up he taught him a trick worth two of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm that they would rather any time of the month whisper in his ear in the dark of a cowhouse or get a lick on the nape from his long holy tongue than lie with the finest strapping young ravisher in the four fields of all Ireland.

The word "cowhouse" means a chamber of confession.

 

In the " The Tale of a Tub ", there is a passage where the word bull is used to describe a callte and an encyclical. "Peter" is the personification of Catholicism.

" But of all Peter’s rarities, he most valued a certain set of bulls, whose race was by great fortune preserved in a lineal descent from those that guarded the golden-fleece.  Though some who pretended to observe them curiously doubted the breed had not been kept entirely chaste, because they had degenerated from their ancestors in some qualities, and had acquired others very extraordinary, but a foreign mixture."

Jonathan Swift, The Tale of a Tub and The History of Martin (Section Ⅳ)

John Bull triumphant

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27 (U199.831)

Stephen went down Bedford row, 

27th cast. page 119, line 831.

 

  Stephen went down Bedford row, the handle of the ash clacking against his shoulderblade. In Clohissey’s window a faded 1860 print of Heenan boxing Sayers held his eye. Staring backers with square hats stood round the roped prizering.

 

Episode 10. Right before the 6th blog. Stephen is walking down Bedford row toward the riverbank.

 

I notice that the eye in "held his eye" is singular. I think this means that he glanced at it.

 

The boxing match between American John Camel Heenan (1834 - 1873) and Englishman Tom Sayers (1826 - 1865) took place on April 17, 1860 in Farnborough, Hampshire, a few kilometers south of London. Considered the first international title fight, the bout between the two great champions was greeted with great enthusiasm on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

In those days, boxing was called bare-knuckle boxing, fought with bare hands, and the fight lasted until the knockdown. And it was illegal.

 

Sayers, 34 years old, weighed 66 kilograms and was 172 centimeters, while Heenan, 26 years old, weighed 88 kilograms and was 188 centimeters, giving Sayers a disadvantage in terms of age and size.

 

The fight was, of course, a betting event, and 12,000 spectators gathered in the meadow around the ring. The fight lasted two hours and twenty-seven minutes. After the police intervened, the fight went on for five more rounds before the referee called it a draw.

 

Another boxing match that is mentioned many times in Ulysses is that between Keogh and Bennett, which took place on May 22, 1904, just a few days after the current date of the novel, June 16, 1904.Keogh, from Ireland, beat Bennett, a British sergeantmajor. Keogh is a real boxer, but Bennett is a fictional boxer.

 

While Heenan vs. Sayers is a legendary Anglo-American rivalry, Keogh vs. Bennett is the current England-Ireland rivalry. It introduces the theme of nationalism into the novel.

 

I don't know what “a square hat” is, but looking at the picture, it seems to be a silk hat.It is a pairing of “square” and “round”. This is really brilliant.

Heenan vs Sayers

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26 (U643.1601)

yes and all the queer little streets 

26th cast. page 643, line 1601.

 

yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes

 

Episode 18. The last episode is the stream of consciousness of Mr. Bloom's wife, Molly.

It is 36 pages long and consists of eight sentences without periods or commas, with commas only at the end of the fourth and eighth sentences.

 

It was past three in the night.  the novel is about to end in ten lines.

 

She recalls Mr. Bloom's proposal of marriage on the hill of Howth, which was triggered by her desire to decorate her room with flowers. She remembers the British Gibraltar where she was born and raised, associating it with the fact that Mr. Bloom said, "You are a flower of the mountain”.

 

The Rose Garden would be in Alameda Park in Gibraltar. (U643.1599)

 

Ulysses is based on a motif from the Odyssey. I think Gibraltar is taken because Odysseus crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to the underworld.

 

The flowers are the flowers in the botanical gardens of Gibraltar, the rhododendrons of the hill of Howth, Molly herself, a mountain flower, and Bloom, whose name means flower.

Statue of Molly Bloom

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The statue of Morrie Bloom in Alameda Park. The base is inscribed with just this passage.

 

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25 (U368.608)

(He plodges through their sump towards the lighted street beyond.

 

25th cast. page 368, line 608.

 

(He plodges through their sump towards the lighted street beyond. From a bulge of window curtains a gramophone rears a battered brazen trunk. In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles with the navvy and the two redcoats.) 

　THE NAVVY: (Belching.) Where’s the bloody house?

　THE SHEBEENKEEPER: Purdon street. Shilling a bottle of stout. Respectable woman.

 

Episode 15. After midnight. Mr. Bloom followed the two drunken men, Stephen and Lynch, to the brothel district. Around the corner from Mabbot Street into Mecklenburg Street.

 

The two soldiers were probably Compton and Carr, who would later conflict with Stephen. At the time, Dublin was a British city and British soldiers wore red uniforms.

 

The gramophone also seems to be that appears later and plays The Holy City. (U413.2170)

 

I don't know what a trunk is, but I understood it to be a trumpet because it is said to be brazen.

 

I don't understand "rear" either.I understood it to mean something like "to stand up" or "to lift up" in the dictionary.

 

The word "shebeen" is an Irish term for a pub that serves liquor without a license.

 

In 1904, the regular pub closed at 11:00 p.m., but you could still drink in the shebeen . One shilling in those days was about 4 pounds. It may have been more expensive than the regular price, but it didn't seem like an absurd rip-off.

 gramophone 

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