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Linati Schema
[From http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/eng/courses/linati.htm#background:]
This schema was drawn up by Joyce around 1920 and sent to Carlo Linati, a friend and translator into Italian of Joyce's Exiles,
for his personal use, though Joyce soon found himself being badgered by
many others who had heard of the plan's existence. In his letter of
September 21, 1920 enclosing the plan, Joyce wrote to Linati:
"As to Mr Dessy's
suggestion I think that in view of the enormous bulk and the more than
enormous complexity of my damned monster-novel it would be better to
send him a sort of summary - key - skeleton - scheme (for home use
only)...I have given only "Schlagworte" [catchwords] in my scheme but I
think you will understand it all the same. It is the epic of two races
(Israel-Ireland) and at the same time the cycle of the human body as
well as a little story of a day (life). The character of Ulysses has
fascinated me ever since boyhood. I started writing a short story for Dubliners
fifteen years ago but gave it up. For seven years I have been working
at this book - blast it! It is also a kind of encyclopaedia. My
intention is not only to render the myth sub specie temporis nostri
[in the light of our own times] but also to allow each adventure (that
is, every hour, every organ, every art being interconnected and
interrelated in the somatic scheme of the whole) to condition and even
to create its own technique. Each adventure is so to speak one person
although it is composed of persons - as Aquinas relates of the heavenly
hosts."
James Joyce, Selected Letters, ed. Richard Ellmann (London: Faber and Faber, 1975), p. 271.
Telemachus
Scene: The Tower
Hour: 8 am
Organ: -
Art: Theology
Colour: White, gold
Symbol: Heir
Technic: Narrative (young)
Correspondences: Stephen - Telemachus, Hamlet; Buck Mulligan - Antinous; Milkwoman - Mentor
Nestor
Scene: The School
Hour: 10 am
Organ -
Art: History
Colour: Brown
Symbol: Horse
Technic: Catechism (personal)
Correspondences: Deasy - Mentor; Sargent - Pisistratus; Mrs O'Shea - Helen
Proteus
Scene: The Strand
Hour: 11 am
Organ -
Art: Philology
Colour: Green
Symbol: Tide
Technic: Monologue (male)
Correspondences: Proteus - Primal Matter; Kevin Egan: Menelaus; Cocklepicker: Megapenthus
Calypso
Scene: The House
Hour: 8 am
Organ: Kidney
Art: Economics
Colour: Orange
Symbol: Nymph
Technic: Narrative (mature)
Correspondences: Calypso - The Nymph; Dlugacz: The Recall; Zion - Ithaca
Lotuseaters
Scene: The Bath
Hour: 10 am
Organ: Genitals
Art: Botany, Chemistry
Colour: -
Symbol: Eucharist
Technic: Narcissism
Correspondences: Lotuseaters - The Cabhorses, Communicants, Soldiers, Eunuchs, Bather, Watchers of Cricket
Hades
Scene: The Graveyard
Hour: 11 am
Organ: Heart
Art: Religion
Colour: White, Black
Symbol: Caretaker
Technic: Incubism
Correspondences:
Dodder, Grand and Royal Canals, Liffey - The 4 Rivers; Cunningham -
Sisyphus; Father Coffey - Cerberus; Caretaker - Hades; Daniel O'Connell
- Hercules; Dignam - Elpenor; Parnell - Agamemnon; Menton - Ajax
Aeolus
Scene: The Newspaper
Hour: 12 noon
Organ: Lungs
Art: Rhetoric
Colour: Red
Symbol: Editor
Technic: Enthymemic
Correspondences: Crawford - Aeolus; Incest - Journalism; Floating Island - Press
Lestrygonians
Scene: The Lunch
Hour: 1 pm
Organ: Esophagus
Art: Architecture
Colour: -
Symbol: Constables
Technic: Peristaltic
Correspondences: Antiphates - Hunger; The Decoy - Food; Lestrygonians - Teeth
Scylla and Charybdis
Scene: The Library
Hour: 2 pm
Organ: The Brain
Art: Literature
Colour: -
Symbol: Stratford, London
Technic: Dialectic
Correspondences:
The Rocks - Aristotle, Dogma, Stratford; The Whirlpool - Plato,
Mysticism, London; Ulysses - Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare
Wandering Rocks
Scene: The Streets
Hour: 3 pm
Organ: Blood
Art: Mechanics
Colour: -
Symbol: Citizens
Technic: Labyrinth
Correspondences: Bosphorus - Liffey; European Bank - Viceroy; Asiatic Bank - Conmee; Symplegades - Groups of Citizens
Sirens
Scene: The Concert Room
Hour: 4 pm
Organ: Ear
Art: Music
Colour: -
Symbol: Barmaids
Technic: Fuga per canonem
Correspondences: Sirens - Barmaids; Isle - Bar
Cyclops
Scene: The Tavern
Hour: 5 pm
Organ: Muscle
Art: Politics
Colour: -
Symbol: Fenian
Technic: Gigantism
Correspondences: Noman - I; Stake - Cigar; Challenge - Apotheosis
Nausicaa
Scene: The Rocks
Hour: 8 pm
Organ: Eye, Nose
Art: Painting
Colour: Grey, Blue
Symbol: Virgin
Technic: Tumescence, Detumescence
Correspondences: Phaeacia - Star of the Sea; Gerty - Nausicaa
Oxen of the Sun
Scene: The Hospital
Hour: 10 pm
Organ: Womb
Art: Medicine
Colour: White
Symbol: Mothers
Technic: Embryonic development
Correspondences: Hospital - Trinacria; Nurses - Lampethe, Phaethusa; Horne - Helios
Circe
Scene: The Brothel
Hour: 12 midnight
Organ: Locomotor Apparatus
Art: Magic
Colour: -
Symbol: Whore
Technic: Hallucination
Correspondences: Circe - Bella
Eumaeus
Scene: The Shelter
Hour: 1 am
Organ: Nerves
Art: Navigation
Colour: -
Symbol: Sailors
Technic: Narrative (old)
Correspondences: Skin the Goat - Eumaeus; Sailor - Ulysses Pseudangelos; Corley - Melanthius
Ithaca
Scene: The House
Hour: 2 am
Organ: Skeleton
Art: Science
Colour: -
Symbol: Comets
Technic: Catechism (impersonal)
Correspondences: Eurymachus - Boylan; Suitors - Scruples; Bow - Reason
Penelope
Scene: The Bed
Hour: -
Organ: Flesh
Art: -
Colour: -
Symbol: Earth
Technic: Monologue (female)
Correspondences: Penelope - Earth; Web - Movement
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