Page 619 (17.1-26) "What parallel... heterosexual magnetism."

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What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?



Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford Place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner streets and Mountjoy square, west: then, at reduced pace, each bearing left, Gardiner's place by an inadvertence as far as the farther corner of Temple street: then, at reduced pace with interruptions of halt, bearing right, Temple street, north, as far as Hardwicke place. Approaching, disparate, at relaxed walking pace they crossed both the circus before George's church diametrically, the chord in any circle being less than the arc which it subtends.



Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?



Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen's collapse.

20 topics, ~20min walk


Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective like and unlike reactions to experience?



Both were sensitive to artistic impressions, musical in preference to plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by early domestic training and an inherited tenacity of heterodox resistance professed their disbelief in many orthodox religious, national, social and ethical doctrines. Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.

sentence #1 maps onto "Music, literature..."

"...Ireland, Dublin, Paris..." omits any "transatlantic" deliberations (but "Paris" maps onto "continental")


"indurated" = hardened

can you say SD's disbelief was hardened by early domestic training?
did SD inherit resistance from Simon?

"many" but not all doctrines?

"obtunding" = deadening (what's deadened by heterosexual magnetism? artistic sensitivity?)

does "prostitution" map onto "heterosexual magnetism"?

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