Page 5 (1.66-105) "Scutter... Across the"

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— Scutter! he cried thickly.
He came over to the gunrest and, thrusting a hand into Stephen's upper pocket, said:
— Lend us a loan of your noserag to wipe my razor.
Stephen suffered him to pull out and hold up on show by its corner a dirty crumpled handkerchief. Buck Mulligan wiped the razorblade neatly. Then, gazing over the handkerchief, he said:
— The bard's noserag! A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can't you?
He mounted to the parapet again and gazed out over Dublin bay, his fair oakpale hair stirring slightly.

"Scutter" = diarrhea

I don't find "art colo[u]r" as a phrase until 1912's "Art Color Plate Engraving Company"

"almost taste it" (BM and JAJ share this synesthesia)

"mounted to" = simultaneously stepping forward and up (J's descriptive invention?)

(isn't "fair oakpale hair" redundant?)


— God! he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.
Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbour mouth of Kingstown.
— Our mighty mother! Buck Mulligan said.

[what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother] (Swinburne was OG's idol. Twice he had made a pilgrimage to Putney.)

"scrotumtightening" (this cremaster reflex to keep the testicles safe and warm can be triggered by cold, fear, or just immersion in water)

ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον winedark?
 
"Thálatta! Thálatta!" (Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα! 'The sea! The sea!')
BM's Greek seems simple/limited [cite]

JAJ: "My father wanted me to take Greek as third language, my mother German and my friends Irish. Result, I took Italian."

"mailboat" = 8:15am (the sun has been up for 3hrs)

1918 mailboat

1916

[mighty mother] Pope, Dryden, Jonson, Spenser, Virgil... but mainly AE?

He turned abruptly his grey searching eyes from the sea to Stephen's face.
— The aunt thinks you killed your mother, he said. That's why she won't let me have anything to do with you.
— Someone killed her, Stephen said gloomily.
— You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I'm hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused. There is something sinister in you....

in a letter from Dec 1903 Gogarty's mother claims to have forbidden an unnamed 'bad Catholic' from visiting Gogarty there.

Delaney: [8]

He broke off and lathered again lightly his farther cheek. A tolerant smile curled his lips.
— But a lovely mummer! he murmured to himself. Kinch, the loveliest mummer of them all!
He shaved evenly and with care, in silence, seriously.

"The aunt thinks you killed your mother" she died a year ago, but BM's insensitivity is still heartless and shocking (maybe a sort of Tourette's?)

"[Gogarty] had a defect that prevented him being a companionable man: he had no reserve in speaking about people, even those he had cause to admire, even those who were close to him. If they had some pitiful disability or shortcoming, he brought it right out. It was an incontinence of speech... The result was that people gave him license and kept a distance from him." --Padraic Colum

"Someone killed her" (anthropomorphic/pathetic fallacy? God?)

[hyperborean]

"He broke off" (the preceding ellipses emphasize that Gogarty is holding something back)

"showed a shaven cheek over his right shoulder... lathered again lightly his farther cheek"

"mummer" Bulfin contrasts JAJ to OG: "The other poet listened in silence..."


Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of his shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes. Across the threadbare cuffedge

why "rested" not 'resting'? detachment/distance? past action?

"shiny black coatsleeve" shiny = worn

only BM's silence allows SD to form thoughts [Benstock]

"not yet the pain of love" (a very philosophical criticism of SD's immaturity? could he be thinking this about himself? is it a phrase he's saved?)

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mysteries:


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Page 4 (1.30-65) "He skipped... hastily."

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He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages. A pleasant smile broke quietly over his lips.

"his watcher" (SD equal or superior to BM?)
"shadowed... sullen"

prelate, patron of arts

"pleasant smile" (BM charms even SD) ((Benstock thinks pov switches to BM whenever it views him sympathetically??))

— The mockery of it! he said gaily. Your absurd name, an ancient Greek!
He pointed his finger in friendly jest and went over to the parapet, laughing to himself. Stephen Dedalus stepped up, followed him wearily halfway and sat down on the edge of the gunrest, watching him still as he propped his mirror on the parapet, dipped the brush in the bowl and lathered cheeks and neck.
Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on.

"absurd name" = Dedalus (not Stephen) (Gogarty might have learned of the 'Daedalus' pseudonym as early as Feb 1904)

no-one knows if Joyce said 'deedle us' or 'dead aluss' but this may hint at the first

 "pleasant smile... friendly jest... gay smile... laughing with delight... my love... with care... warily... frowned"

Gogarty's shavingbrush was ivory and gold ('chryselephantine'), later stolen by Trench ('Haines'):

— My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it? Tripping and sunny like the buck himself. We must go to Athens. Will you come if I can get the aunt to fork out twenty quid?
He laid the brush aside and, laughing with delight, cried:
— Will he come? The jejune jesuit!
Ceasing, he began to shave with care.

('Hellenic' is not a dactyl: helLENic not HELlenic)

"the buck himself" (BM speaks of himself in 3rd person)

"the aunt" [article] argues unconvincingly this must be aunt Annie, but an alternative is that BM calls his mother 'the aunt'

aunt Annie

Mrs Gogarty

"twenty quid" = $2600 today

45yo in 1901

the Gogarty faction in 1901 included mother, two sons, a daughter, and 2 servants

"jejune" from Latin for 'hungry', but also self-sacrificing/ascetic/holy, so disinclined to partying (the word is notable for not sounding like its meaning)

"Ceasing" (ceasing laughing?)


— Tell me, Mulligan, Stephen said quietly.
— Yes, my love?
— How long is Haines going to stay in this tower?

Delaney: [6]

Buck Mulligan showed a shaven cheek over his right shoulder.
— God, isn't he dreadful? he said frankly. A ponderous Saxon. He thinks you're not a gentleman. God, these bloody English! Bursting with money and indigestion. Because he comes from Oxford. You know, Dedalus, you have the real Oxford manner. He can't make you out. O, my name for you is the best: Kinch, the knifeblade.
He shaved warily over his chin.

'Stephen Dedalus' gets shortened to 'Stephen' long before 'Buck Mulligan' gets shortened to 'Mulligan' (p13)
"in this tower" (has Haines perhaps visited other Martello towers? ...No, the name Martello is new to him: p17 below)
"dreadful" BM hides this view from Haines
'bursting with indignation' is a phrase
if SD does have "the real Oxford manner" then Haines must be responding to titles more than vibes
cf OG in 1938: "James Joyce was not a gentleman"


— He was raving all night about a black panther, Stephen said. Where is his guncase? 

fw28 quotes an imaginary headline headline "Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez."

— A woful lunatic! Mulligan said. Were you in a funk?
— I was, Stephen said with energy and growing fear. Out here in the dark with a man I don't know raving and moaning to himself about shooting a black panther. You saved men from drowning. I'm not a hero, however. If he stays on here I am off.

Delaney: [7]

Buck Mulligan frowned at the lather on his razorblade. He hopped down from his perch and began to search his trouser pockets hastily.

the spelling 'woful' was more common than 'woeful' pre-1900
the narration switches momentarily from the name "Buck Mulligan" to just "Mulligan"
"in a funk" literally 'in a panic' (this meaning since lost?)
"with energy and growing fear" = SD's so sensitive he's practically got PTSD (he looks to BM for protection)
the FW thunderwords suggest JAJ's vulnerability to loud noises (most accounts claim OG fired a gun to tease JAJ)
(is SD implying that BM didn't sleep there... has just arrived back from town? or maybe slept on the roof? or in a separate room?)

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mysteries: aunt or mother?




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[Episode one in emoji]

revised:




 📘 blue book (1st ed blue cover, obscene)
 🆙 up (Ulysses+Penelope, Breen's postcard)
 📖 an open book
 🎭 performing arts/ theatrical (fiction)

(  word group
 🌌 milky way (macrocosm) a universe
 🍱 bento box (squeezed neatly into)
 📆 tear-off calendar (microcosm) one day
)

 👨 one man (Odysseus/Bloom)

(  plural group
 💦 many trials (splashing sweat)
 🔓 open lock (solves puzzles) unlocked
) x12


 🌞 a sunny day (sun with face)
 ♊ sun in Gemini (June)
 🌚 new moon
 🕣 clock face eight-thirty

(
 🍀 clover
 🗾 island nation
)

(
 🏰 castle (Tower)
 🔝 top (of castle)
)

(
 👿 imp (Buck Mulligan)
 👘 kimono (yellow silk dressinggown)
 👖 jeans (pants, implied not mentioned)
)

(
 💇 haircut/ barbering (shave)
 🍜 steaming bowl (lather)
 🔪 hocho (blade)
 💿 optical disc (mirror)
)


 👿 imp
 💬 speech balloon (monolog-patter)
 😏 smirking face (arch-mocker)
 💃 dancer (performing/miming)
(  verb-object
 🎭 performing arts (pretending to be characters)
 🙏 folded hands (prayer/priest)
 )

 👤 man (Stephen)
 😪 sleepy
 🙍 sad (frowning)
 😒 unamused

 👿 imp
 🐴 equine
 🎭 acts out
(  series
 💂 soldier
,
 🙏 priest
,
 🎼 musical score (conductor)
,
(
🎤 microphone (barker)
 🎪 circus tent (girly show)
)
,
 😷 face with medical mask (doctor)
)

 😙  kissing face with smiling eyes (whistles)
 🔜  soon with rightwards arrow above (waits for reply)
(
 🚢 ship

 😙 kissing face with smiling eyes (whistling)
 ↩ leftwards arrow with hook (back)
)
 👄 mouth
(
 💎 gem stone (gold tooth)
 ✨ sparkles
)

 👿 imp
💬 speech balloon
(
 🙏 folded hands (prayer/thanks)
 👴 older man (old chap)
 📴  mobile phone off (switch off current)
)

 👿 imp
 👀 eyes
 🔍 examine critically
 🙍 sad (frowning)

 🙍 sad (frowning)
👀 eyes
 👿 imp
 💰 money bag (wealthy patron)




👑 crown
🙏 priest



 👿 imp
☺️smiles

👥 2nd person
📛 name
🗿 ancient
👉 points
😝 laughs

👤 1st person
📛 name
☳ dactyl x2
💃dances like
🐏 buck
goat (buck)


👬 us
🚢 ship
💷 pound
❓


eyes
money bag (wealthy patron)
white smiling face
white right pointing backhand index
face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes
goat (buck)
Greek flag
pound
two men holding hands (SD and BM)
sos (SD asks help)
hotel (hospitality)
bust in silhouette, guest account (Haines)
graduation cap (Oxford manner)
British flag
grimacing face (sneers at SD)
hocho (Kinch)

speech_balloon (SD)
night with stars
sleeping symbol
ghost (dream)
leopard (black panther)
pistol
face screaming in fear
swimmer (Mulligan)
flexed biceps (brave?)

missing:


p5 emoji: shit, nose, sweat, scroll, flag, face-massage, litter, palette, face-wind, honey, mother, closed book, open book, scroll, alphabet, ship, eyes, aunt, kill, mother, prayer, collision, imp, okay, actor, sleeping, ghost, mother

paraphrase: 'shit' nose-scroll-flag face-massage litter palette, wind, sea sweet mother, teach original book-scroll, aunt thinks killed mother begging prayer, SD sinister but okay actor; mother dream ghost


pile of poo (Scutter)
nose
splashing sweat (work, temperature, nerves, snot?)
scroll (rag)
waving white flag (rag)
face massage
put litter in its place
artist palette (artcolour)
wind blowing face
�� water wave (sea)
honey pot (sweet)
older woman (mother)
closed book
open book
scroll (original text)
abcd (teach)
ship
eyes
older woman (aunt)
hammer (attack, kill dead)
older woman (mother)
skull (dead)
can indicate sorrow or regret; can indicate pleading, person with folded hands (prayer, request)
collision symbol
imp (sinister)
lovely
mummer
sleeping symbol
ghost
older woman (mother)

missing: rag/cloth


p6 emoji: frown, wave, stew, sweat, medical, broken heart, halo, imp, registered, hooked arrow, shoe, vote, question, pants, free; clapping princess 100% congrats, thumbs down exx cancelled, left-lens, joker, deep respect; speech medical alien-hospital, SD alien when mask removed,

paraphrase:

person frowning (SD)
�� water wave (bay)
resembles
�� pot of food, stew
splashing sweat (bile)
face with medical mask
broken heart

smiling face with halo
imp
® registered sign (my)
↩ leftwards arrow with hook (lends?)
�� mans shoe (breeks)

offers, asks
black_square_button (vote yes or no?)
❓ black question mark ornament
�� jeans, pants
🆓 squared free

praises looks (BM praises SD)
clapping hands sign
like a princess
💯 hundred points symbol
㊗ circled ideograph congratulation

SD refuses offer
👎 thumbs down sign
negative_squared_cross_mark
🔕 bell with cancellation stroke

wrong color, grey not black
🔍 left-pointing magnifying glass (critical inspection?)
black_joker (disrespectful?)
🙇 person bowing deeply

speech_balloon
face with medical mask
hospital
extraterrestrial alien (looney bin)

said you are
person frowning

take off mask
⬅ leftwards black arrow (reverse)
performing arts "��" (mimicry motif? put on mask)

extraterrestrial alien (gpi)

�� person raising both hands in celebration
�� optical disc (signal mirror)
�� globe with meridians

person frowning
�� optical disc (mirror)
�� dog face

mirror is cracked
�� optical disc (mirror)
collision symbol
girl
face massage (servant)
�� dog face (homely)

not
woman with bunny ears
�� face with no good gesture
�� squared ng
�� thumbs down sign

japanese_goblin (Caliban)
�� optical disc (mirror)
�� antenna with bars
�� chart with downwards trend
�� face with no good gesture
�� squared ng
�� thumbs down sign
angry face



p7 emoji:

paraphrase:

�� optical disc (mirror)
collision symbol
girl
face massage

symbol of
⬅ leftwards black arrow (reverse)
performing arts "��" (mimicry motif? put on mask)

art
japan (Ireland)

two men holding hands
smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat

more spirit:
dancer (storyteller? flirt?)
bride with veil
sparkling heart = joy?
sparkles
glowing star

compare:
�� hundred points symbol

fearful face
✒ black nib
hocho

⬅ leftwards black arrow (reverse)
performing arts "��" (mimicry motif? put on mask)
art
japan (Ireland)

�� currency exchange (haggles? sells?)
bust in silhouette, guest account
pound


bust in silhouette, guest account
older man
money bag (Guinnesses? ReubenJ?)
�� currency exchange (haggles? sells?)
pill
�� monkey

if
two men holding hands
then
japan (Ireland)
dancer (Hellenise)


person with blond hair
person with blond hair
�� house with garden
�� school
performing arts "��" (mimicry motif? put on mask)
japanese_goblin
hocho
haircut
face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes

�� ox
fearful face


person bowing deeply
face with ok gesture

�� spouting whale



missing: castration??



p8 emoji:

paraphrase:


anguished face
speech_balloon

in the past
smirking face
speech_balloon
older woman
skull
�� meat on bone (beastly dead)

flushed face
can indicate sorrow or regret; can indicate pleading, person with folded hands
older woman

speech_balloon
smirking face
can indicate sorrow or regret; can indicate pleading, person with folded hands
older woman
�� thumbs down sign

smirking face
can indicate sorrow or regret; can indicate pleading, person with folded hands
⭕ heavy large circle (targeting problem?)
anguished face

bomb