Schemes for Ulysses
There are many schemes for reading and understanding of Ulysses, but two, by James Joyce himsef, stand out:
Scheme for Linatti done in 1920:
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Title
|
Hour
|
Colour
|
People
|
Science
/ Art
|
Meaning
|
Technic
|
Organ
|
symbols
|
| Telemachus | 08:00 - 09:00 AM | Gold / white |
Telemachus |
Theology | Dispossessed son in contest | Dialogue
for three and four, narration, soliloquy |
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|
Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen |
| Nestor | 09:00 - 10:00 AM | Brown | Telemachus Nestor Pisistratus Helena |
History | The wisdom of the ancients | Dialogue
for 2, narration, soliloquy |
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|
Ulster, woman, practical sense |
| Proteus | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Blue | Telemachus Proteus Menelaus Helena Megapentes |
Philology | Primal matter | Soliloquy |
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|
World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis |
| Calypso | 08:00 - 09:00 AM | Orange | Calypso Penelope Ulysses Callidice |
Mythology | The departing wayfarer | Dialogue
for 2, soliloquy |
Kidneys
|
Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity |
| Lotus eaters | 09:00 - 10:00 AM | Dark brown | Eurylocus Polites Ulysses Nausicaa |
Chemistry | The temptation of faith |
Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy |
Skin
|
Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats |
| Hades | 11':00 - 12:00 | Black-white | Ulysses Elpenor Ajax Agamenon Hercules Erifila Sisifo Orion Laertes, etc Prometeu Cerberu Tiresias Hades Proserpina Telemaco Antinous |
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|
The derision of victory | Dialogue, narration | Heart | Cemetery, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak |
| Aeolus | 12:00 - 01:00 PM | Red | Aeolus Filhos Telêmaco Mentor Ulysses |
Rhetoric | The derision of victory | Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes | Lungs | Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability |
| Lestrygonians | 01:00 - 02:00 PM | Blood red | Antifates, A filha sedutora Ulysses |
Architecture | Despondency | Peristaltic prose | Oesophagus | Bloody
sacrifice, food, shame |
| Scyila and Charíbdis | 02:00 - 03:00 PM |
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|
Cila Caríbdis Telêmaco Ulysses Antious |
Literature | The double-edge sword | Whirlpools | Brain |
Hamlet, |
| Wandering Rocks | 03:00 - 04:00 PM | Rainbow | Objetos Lugares Forças Ulysses |
Mechanics | The hostile milieu | Shifting labyrinth between two shores | Blood | Caesar, Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances |
| Sirens | 04:00 - 05:00 PM | Coral | Leucoteia Partenope Ulysses Orfeu Menelau Argonautas |
Music | The sweet deceit | Fuga per canonem | Ear | Promises, female, sounds, embellishments |
| Ciclopes | 05:00 - 06:00 PM | Green | Prometeu Noman Galateia Ulysses |
Surgery | Egocidal terror | Alternating asymmetry | Muscles, bones |
Nation, |
| Nausicaa | 08:00 - 09:00 PM | Grey | Nausicaa, Criadas, Alcino, Arete, Ulysses |
Painting | The projected mirage | Retrogressive progression | Eye, nose | Onanism, feminine, hypocrisy |
| Oxen of the skun | 10:00 -11:00 PM | White | Lampetie Faetusa Helios Hyperion Jove Ulysses |
Physics | The eternal
herds |
Prose, embryo, foetus, birth | Matrix, uterus | Fertilisation, frauds, parthenogenesis |
| Circe | 11:00 -12:00 PM | Violet | Circe, Os Porcos, Telêmaco, Ulysses, Hermes |
Dance | The man-hating ogress | Exploding vision | Locomotor apparatus, skeleton | Zoology, personification, pantheism, magic, poison, antidote, reel |
| Eumaeus | 12:00 -01:00 AM |
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|
Eumaeus Ulysses Telêmaco Mau Pastor Pseudoangelus |
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|
The ambush on home ground | Relaxed prose | Nerves |
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|
| Itaca | 01:00 - 02:00 AM |
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|
Ulysses Telêmaco Eurycleia Os Suitors |
Armed hope | Dialogue, pacified style, fusion | Juices |
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|
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| Penelope |
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|
Ulysses Laertes, Penelope |
The past sleeps | Monologue, resigned style | Fat |
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Scheme made in 1921 to help his friend, Gilbert Stuart, to understand the fundamental structure of the book. Gilbert published it in 1930 in his book, James Joyce, "Ulysses: A Study." The original copy of the scheme is in Gilbert Harley K. Croessmann Collection of James Joyce at Southern Illinois University Carbondale:
