Saturday, December 17, 2016
Hierarchical-reveal hypertext design
The new style of hypertext I'm exploring in the post "Button test" below is a partial blogger simulation of my planned Fweet-style Ulysses database I've been calling Uleet.
Since Blogger recently changed their rules for images to require https, I'm looking at going thru all 800 pages to find image substitutes.
I thought I might take the opportunity to try to:
1) streamline the page design
2) tag the note-types in anticipation of Uleet
I hadn't expected to be able to implement conceal-reveal buttons in Blogger, but a lot of that kind of stuff seems do-able if you know how.
The current design goals:
1) when you first load a page, you see almost-uninterrupted Joycean text. Linebreaks are freeform for readability, with subtle annotations-buttons at convenient points. (Delaney's embedded podcasts are also visible at this level.)
[at the moment, only the annotations-buttons after "stairhead" and "crossed" are implemented]
2) clicking an annotations-button opens up a summary-view of all annotations for that passage, one short line for each note, starting with a colored oval with emoji (itself the next level of reveal-button) followed by the note-type in CAPS and a short summary-title. (illustrations are visible at this level) The background colors of the ovals will probably categorise the note-types in some simpler way.
3) Clicking an oval button opens that note. These can include a lot more redundant links since their display is optional.
Serious readers will be expected to open every note, skimmers can ignore all but their primary interest.
Switching formats will be a huge task. The html is ugly and verbose, and the note-types are messy and arbitrary.
The emoji symbols may or may not prove useful-- at least they're decorative.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Button test
telemachus:
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
page-text:
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan
came from the stairhead,
bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled,
was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.
He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
— Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:
— Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest.
He faced about and blessed gravely thrice
the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains.
Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus,
he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air,
gurgling in his throat and shaking his head.
Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy,
leaned his arms on the top of the staircase
and looked coldly
at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him,
equine in its length,
and at the light untonsured hair,
grained and hued like pale oak.
Buck Mulligan peeped an instant under the mirror
and then covered the bowl smartly.
— Back to barracks! he said sternly.
He added in a preacher's tone:
— For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine:
body and soul and blood and ouns.
Slow music, please.
Shut your eyes, gents.
One moment.
A little trouble about those white corpuscles.
Silence, all.
He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call,
then paused awhile in rapt attention,
his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points.
Chrysostomos.
Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm.
— Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely.
Switch off the current, will you?
mysteries: Christine; white corpuscles; Two strong shrill whistles answered... Switch off the current, will you?
telemachus: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
page-text:
Delaney:
[1]
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan
came from the stairhead,
bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled,
was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air.
He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
— Introibo ad altare Dei.
Delaney:
[2]
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:
— Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!
Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest.
He faced about and blessed gravely thrice
the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains.
Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus,
he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air,
gurgling in his throat and shaking his head.
Delaney:
[3]
Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy,
leaned his arms on the top of the staircase
and looked coldly
at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him,
equine in its length,
and at the light untonsured hair,
grained and hued like pale oak.
Delaney:
[4]
Buck Mulligan peeped an instant under the mirror
and then covered the bowl smartly.
— Back to barracks! he said sternly.
He added in a preacher's tone:
— For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine:
body and soul and blood and ouns.
Slow music, please.
Shut your eyes, gents.
One moment.
A little trouble about those white corpuscles.
Silence, all.
He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call,
then paused awhile in rapt attention,
his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points.
Chrysostomos.
Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm.
— Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely.
Switch off the current, will you?
mysteries: Christine; white corpuscles; Two strong shrill whistles answered... Switch off the current, will you?
telemachus: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Friday, December 2, 2016
Tana French's Dublin
(her primary settings all seem to relocate real placenames to fictional sites)
In the Woods
There's lots of Irish places called 'Knocknaree' but this one is fictional, location (red paddle) implied by ""She had had a ballet class in Stillorgan, a few miles in towards the center of Dublin
Two local motorways opened in 2005
Poem: "At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux" by Charles Causley
The Likeness
Ryan's room is a stone's throw from the Tower (also Synge's pissed-on door)
Ryan and Maddox walk the famous Strand
their offices are in the Castle (like Martin Cunningham's)
Ballsbridge is where the cavalcade ends up
UCD has moved
Knocknaree would have been about an hour's walk from Deasy's school
In the Woods
There's lots of Irish places called 'Knocknaree' but this one is fictional, location (red paddle) implied by ""She had had a ballet class in Stillorgan, a few miles in towards the center of Dublin
Two local motorways opened in 2005
Poem: "At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux" by Charles Causley
The Likeness
Ryan's room is a stone's throw from the Tower (also Synge's pissed-on door)
Ryan and Maddox walk the famous Strand
their offices are in the Castle (like Martin Cunningham's)
Ballsbridge is where the cavalcade ends up
UCD has moved
Knocknaree would have been about an hour's walk from Deasy's school
Monday, November 7, 2016
Ulysses on Ice
►
so we should try making them explicit
magnifying them into skaters, dancing...
(also: exiles on ice
already minutely choreographed by joyce in stage directions,
dubliners on ice)
i was thinking first just of a ballet
(and an ice ballet could always be trimmed of its ice
if you just can't take it seriously)
ep1 is revealed mostly as a brother-duet
with buck leading and challenging and stephen quietly following
stephen eventually asking for a brotherly commitment
buck peaks with his entrance
a flurry of grandiose pantomimes of male roles
(stephen will get a glorious extended solo later, in proteus on ice)
different modalities might be conveyed with colored spotlights
buck first mimes a self-serious priest
then he mimes stephen as a fearful, jejune jesuit (holding up his jupes to flee? cf Stephen Hero ch18 "holding their soutanes up as women do with their skirts when they cross a muddy street")
then a series of grandiose flourishes
skating circles around barely-moving stephen
(as buck starts to shave as well)
stephen is fearful, displeased and sleepy because haines had a noisy nightmare
stephen must mime haines and himself, and also mime brave buck
and he at first demands buck choose
snotrag-business
sea-gaze
buck suddenly halts and accuses stephen of killing his mother
buck skates off smugly as stephen secretly writhes
stephen then resumes the duet
buck continues challenging stephen's sanity, then catches himself
reverses direction
praises stephen
complains stephen distrusts him
offers to give haines a ragging
asks what's real problem
dramatic pause
stephen takes tentative lead, buck follows warily
stephen recalls overhearing buck's heartless phrase
(stephen wishes for a brotherbond
where buck would play protector of his heart)
but buck flees
mounts defense
stephen parries
buck departs with nonapology
stephen's sad solo turns nightmarish
buck returns
kitchen cooking and banter
milkwoman slow but sure
later:
bloom's kitchen duet with (skating) cat
like chaplin on rollerskates
bloom timidly stalks oblivious neighbor girl
bloom busily circles reclining molly
later:
hades on ice: foursome with two skating backwards
scylla: competent librarians hector brilliant stephen like birds of prey
so we should try making them explicit
magnifying them into skaters, dancing...
(also: exiles on ice
already minutely choreographed by joyce in stage directions,
dubliners on ice)
i was thinking first just of a ballet
(and an ice ballet could always be trimmed of its ice
if you just can't take it seriously)
ep1 is revealed mostly as a brother-duet
with buck leading and challenging and stephen quietly following
stephen eventually asking for a brotherly commitment
buck peaks with his entrance
a flurry of grandiose pantomimes of male roles
(stephen will get a glorious extended solo later, in proteus on ice)
different modalities might be conveyed with colored spotlights
buck first mimes a self-serious priest
then he mimes stephen as a fearful, jejune jesuit (holding up his jupes to flee? cf Stephen Hero ch18 "holding their soutanes up as women do with their skirts when they cross a muddy street")
then a series of grandiose flourishes
skating circles around barely-moving stephen
(as buck starts to shave as well)
stephen is fearful, displeased and sleepy because haines had a noisy nightmare
stephen must mime haines and himself, and also mime brave buck
and he at first demands buck choose
snotrag-business
sea-gaze
buck suddenly halts and accuses stephen of killing his mother
buck skates off smugly as stephen secretly writhes
stephen then resumes the duet
buck continues challenging stephen's sanity, then catches himself
reverses direction
praises stephen
complains stephen distrusts him
offers to give haines a ragging
asks what's real problem
dramatic pause
stephen takes tentative lead, buck follows warily
stephen recalls overhearing buck's heartless phrase
(stephen wishes for a brotherbond
where buck would play protector of his heart)
but buck flees
mounts defense
stephen parries
buck departs with nonapology
stephen's sad solo turns nightmarish
buck returns
kitchen cooking and banter
milkwoman slow but sure
later:
bloom's kitchen duet with (skating) cat
like chaplin on rollerskates
bloom timidly stalks oblivious neighbor girl
bloom busily circles reclining molly
later:
hades on ice: foursome with two skating backwards
scylla: competent librarians hector brilliant stephen like birds of prey
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Before Bloomsday 1904
c June 20 Seymour "Going over next week to stew" (p22)
Friday June 17
Thursday June 16
p191 "The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done. Signed: Dedalus. Where did you launch it from? The kips? No. College Green. Have you drunk the four quid? The aunt is going to call on your unsubstantial father. Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, the Ship, lower Abbey street."
p190 "Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats. How much did I spend? O, a few shillings."
p26 "— Have I heard all? Stephen asked.
— Yes, sir. Hockey at ten, sir.
— Half day, sir. Thursday"
p25 "Where do you begin in this?" SD not current
p11 "— I get paid this morning, Stephen said.
— The school kip? Buck Mulligan said. How much? Four quid?"
p46 "After he woke me up last night same dream or was it? Wait. Open hallway. Street of harlots. Remember. Haroun al Raschid. I am almosting it. That man led me, spoke. I was not afraid. The melon he had he held against my face. Smiled: creamfruit smell. That was the rule, said. In. Come. Red carpet spread. You will see who."
p4 "He was raving all night about a black panther"
Wednesday June 15
SD's hat in BM's trunk p17
p6 BM at the Ship (w/Haines? w/o SD) "That fellow I was with in the Ship last night" leaves w/florin (p15)
Seymour spooning with Lily on pier (p22)
p190 "I hear that an actress played Hamlet for the fourhundredandeighth time last night in Dublin."
SD eats w/BM? "Three times a day, after meals" (p19)
someone washes dishes
p12 "I told her to come after eight." also Haines? "That woman"
Tuesday June 14
p209 "— O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!"
p206 "— I called upon the bard Kinch at his summer residence in upper Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore."
p191 "— The tramper Synge is looking for you, he said, to murder you. He heard you pissed on his halldoor in Glasthule. He's out in pampooties to murder you.
— Me! Stephen exclaimed. That was your contribution to literature."
someone buys bread, eggs, bacon, honey, sugar
quart of milk "it's seven mornings a pint at twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling. That's a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir." p15
Monday June 13
p48 "The virgin at Hodges Figgis' window on Monday"
quart of milk
Sunday June 12
drowning June 7 "It's nine days today." (p21)
seven days of pints of milk start June 6
Stephen teaches daily
someone rents tower "It is mine, I paid the rent." (p20)
p29 "As on the first day he bargained with me here... Three twelve... The same room and hour, the same wisdom: and I the same. Three times now." (June 16, June 9, June 2?)
p31 "Mrs McKernan, five weeks' board"
26 March theatre program
p208 "— Longworth is awfully sick, he said, after what you wrote about that old hake Gregory. O you inquisitional drunken jew jesuit! She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus."
p184 "Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn."
p8 "the first day I went to your house after my mother's death"
p648 Mrs Dedalus buried 26 June 1903
Paris adventure
Friday June 17
Thursday June 16
p191 "The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done. Signed: Dedalus. Where did you launch it from? The kips? No. College Green. Have you drunk the four quid? The aunt is going to call on your unsubstantial father. Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, the Ship, lower Abbey street."
p190 "Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats. How much did I spend? O, a few shillings."
p26 "— Have I heard all? Stephen asked.
— Yes, sir. Hockey at ten, sir.
— Half day, sir. Thursday"
p25 "Where do you begin in this?" SD not current
p11 "— I get paid this morning, Stephen said.
— The school kip? Buck Mulligan said. How much? Four quid?"
p46 "After he woke me up last night same dream or was it? Wait. Open hallway. Street of harlots. Remember. Haroun al Raschid. I am almosting it. That man led me, spoke. I was not afraid. The melon he had he held against my face. Smiled: creamfruit smell. That was the rule, said. In. Come. Red carpet spread. You will see who."
p4 "He was raving all night about a black panther"
Wednesday June 15
SD's hat in BM's trunk p17
p6 BM at the Ship (w/Haines? w/o SD) "That fellow I was with in the Ship last night" leaves w/florin (p15)
Seymour spooning with Lily on pier (p22)
p190 "I hear that an actress played Hamlet for the fourhundredandeighth time last night in Dublin."
SD eats w/BM? "Three times a day, after meals" (p19)
someone washes dishes
p12 "I told her to come after eight." also Haines? "That woman"
Tuesday June 14
p209 "— O, the night in the Camden hall when the daughters of Erin had to lift their skirts to step over you as you lay in your mulberrycoloured, multicoloured, multitudinous vomit!"
p206 "— I called upon the bard Kinch at his summer residence in upper Mecklenburgh street and found him deep in the study of the Summa contra Gentiles in the company of two gonorrheal ladies, Fresh Nelly and Rosalie, the coalquay whore."
p191 "— The tramper Synge is looking for you, he said, to murder you. He heard you pissed on his halldoor in Glasthule. He's out in pampooties to murder you.
— Me! Stephen exclaimed. That was your contribution to literature."
someone buys bread, eggs, bacon, honey, sugar
quart of milk "it's seven mornings a pint at twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling. That's a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir." p15
Monday June 13
p48 "The virgin at Hodges Figgis' window on Monday"
quart of milk
Sunday June 12
drowning June 7 "It's nine days today." (p21)
seven days of pints of milk start June 6
Stephen teaches daily
someone rents tower "It is mine, I paid the rent." (p20)
p29 "As on the first day he bargained with me here... Three twelve... The same room and hour, the same wisdom: and I the same. Three times now." (June 16, June 9, June 2?)
p31 "Mrs McKernan, five weeks' board"
26 March theatre program
p208 "— Longworth is awfully sick, he said, after what you wrote about that old hake Gregory. O you inquisitional drunken jew jesuit! She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus."
p184 "Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn."
p8 "the first day I went to your house after my mother's death"
p648 Mrs Dedalus buried 26 June 1903
Paris adventure
Friday, August 5, 2016
Thursday, June 16, 2016
A Ulysses census
I'm thinking there's a need for a spreadsheet with one line for each character in Ulysses.
[eg]
fields:
fictional name
real name(s)
aka
appearances
I'm playing with the idea of a single column for 'appearances' that holds a series of codes separated by commas
A-R = which of the 18 episodes they appear in
0-Z = class of appearance
0-9 = uncertainty of appearance-class
eg: A00
classes:
0 = seen and named
1 = seen but not named
2 = named but not seen
3 = alluded to but not seen or named
4? named but hallucinated
[eg]
fields:
fictional name
real name(s)
aka
appearances
I'm playing with the idea of a single column for 'appearances' that holds a series of codes separated by commas
A-R = which of the 18 episodes they appear in
0-Z = class of appearance
0-9 = uncertainty of appearance-class
eg: A00
classes:
0 = seen and named
1 = seen but not named
2 = named but not seen
3 = alluded to but not seen or named
4? named but hallucinated
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