[Synchronizing Wandering Rocks, 2]

there's less than 50 total events we need to be concerned with.

they're split, irregularly, into 19 chronological sequences.

we know the order of the events in each sequence, but we know very little about the relative order of events in different sequences.

joyce has thrown us a rope in the form of 'intrusions' between sequences that are assumed to be simultaneous.

so we can start with a 50*50 array, with the goal of assigning a value to each pair: 'x occurs before y', 'x occurs after y', or 'x and y are simultaneous'. the starting values are all 'unknown' except where x and y are the same event (simultaneous), or where they're in the same sequence (before or after).

then we start tagging intrusions, and propagating them by the (transitive?) rule 'if a is before b, and b is simultaneous with c, and c is before d, then a is before d'

...so how far will that get us????

subsections (mnemonic numbering): 1FC, 2CK, 3os, 4KB, 5BB, 6AA, 7MD, 8NL, 9TL, 10LB, 11DD, 12TK, 13SD, 14Si, 15MC, 16BM, 17TF, 18PD, 19vc (uppercase for names/titles only)

1-200 = linecount within subsection (Gabler linebreaks)
for any given section these can be assumed chronological


Lenehan's subsection 9TL offers the primary 'spine'-- tightly timed intrusions to and from Boylan 5BB and Miss Dunne 7MD, the cavalcade 19vc, and Patk Dignam 18PD:

9TL4 "the top disk... shot down the groove, wobbled a while, ceased, ogling them: six."
9TL51 "The gates of the drive opened wide to give egress to the viceregal cavalcade."
9TL56 "They went up the steps and under Merchants' arch. A darkbacked figure scanned books on the hawker's cart."
9TL70 "Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam came out of Mangan's, late Fehrenbach's, carrying a pound and a half of porksteaks."


Via the cavalcade 19vc we can partly align a second spine: the Dedalus girls 4KB and 11DD, Simon 14Si, and Stephen 13SD, with side-links to the sailor 3os, Molly, Kernan 12TK, and Love 8NL:

3os6 "He swung himself violently forward past Katey and Boody Dedalus"
3os8 "J.J. O'Molloy's white careworn face was told that Mr Lambert was in the warehouse with a visitor."
3os22 "A card Unfurnished Apartments slipped from the sash and fell. A plump bare generous arm shone, was seen, held forth from a white petticoatbodice and taut shiftstraps. A woman's hand flung forth a coin over the area railings."
4KB7 "Father Conmee walked through Clongowes fields, his thinsocked ankles tickled by stubble."
4KB24 "The lacquey rang his bell. --Barang!"
4KB37 "A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under Loopline bridge, shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between the Customhouse old dock and George's quay."
11DD7 "The lacquey lifted his handbell and shook it: --Barang!"
11DD31 "Mr Kernan, pleased with the order he had booked, walked boldly along James's street."
12TK1 "From the sundial towards James's Gate walked Mr Kernan, pleased with the order he had booked for Pulbrook Robertson, boldly along James's street"
11DD67 "The viceregal cavalcade passed, greeted by obsequious policemen, out of Parkgate."
12TK23 "--Hello, Simon, Father Cowley said. How are things? --Hello, Bob, old man, Mr Dedalus answered stopping."
14Si1 "--Hello, Simon, Father Cowley said. How are things? --Hello, Bob, old man, Mr Dedalus answered, stopping."
14Si38 "Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell, murmuring, glassyeyed, strode past the Kildare street club."
14Si47 "The reverend Hugh C. Love walked from the old Chapterhouse of saint Mary's abbey past James and Charles Kennedy's, rectifiers, attended by Geraldines tall and personable, towards the Tholsel beyond the Ford of Hurdles."
12TK35 "North wall and sir John Rogerson's quay, with hulls and anchorchains, sailing westward, sailed by a skiff, a crumpled throwaway, rocked on the ferrywash, Elijah is coming."
13SD19 "Two old women fresh from their whiff of the briny trudged through Irishtown along London bridge road, one with a sanded tired umbrella, one with a midwife's bag in which eleven cockles rolled."
13SD43 "Father Conmee, having read his little hours, walked through the hamlet of Donnycarney, murmuring vespers."
19vc52 "In Fownes's street Dilly Dedalus, straining her sight upward from Chardenal's first French primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning in the glare"
19vc99 "At Haddington road corner two sanded women halted themselves, an umbrella and a bag in which eleven cockles rolled to view with wonder the lord mayor and lady mayoress without his golden chain."


These two spines align loosely via:
9TL51 "The gates of the drive opened wide to give egress to the viceregal cavalcade."
11DD67 "The viceregal cavalcade passed, greeted by obsequious policemen, out of Parkgate."

...but the timegap between them has to be estimated based on geography:

19vc1 "William Humble, earl of Dudley, and Lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Hesseltine, drove out after luncheon from the viceregal lodge. In the following carriage were the honourable Mrs Paget, Miss de Courcy and the honourable Gerald Ward, A.D.C. in attendance."
19vc5 "The cavalcade passed out by the lower gate of Phoenix Park saluted by obsequious policemen and proceeded past Kingsbridge along the northern quays. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis."

(presumably the lower gate is at the entrance to the park, the 'upper' gates by the viceregal lodge, 2 miles and 20+ minutes away)



4KB7 aligns to Conmee, as does 3os22, with about 10-15 minutes between them (time for Conmee's tramtrip, and for K&B's walk home).
Conmee aligns to Mulligan 16BM and Lambert 8NL:

4KB7 "Father Conmee walked through Clongowes fields, his thinsocked ankles tickled by stubble."
1FC184 "His thinsocked ankles were tickled by the stubble of Clongowes field."

16BM4 "They chose a small table near the window, opposite a longfaced man whose beard and gaze hung intently down on a chessboard."
8NL28 "From a long face a beard and gaze hung on a chessboard."

1FC199 "the young woman abruptly bent and with slow care detached from her light skirt a clinging twig."
8NL43 "The young woman with slow care detached from her light skirt a clinging twig."

16BM54 "Elijah, skiff, light crumpled throwaway, sailed eastward by flanks of ships and trawlers, amid an archipelago of corks, beyond new Wapping street past Benson's ferry, and by the threemasted schooner Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks."

19vc48 "From the window of the D.B.C. Buck Mulligan gaily, and Haines gravely, gazed down on the viceregal equipage over the shoulders of eager guests, whose mass of forms darkened the chessboard whereon John Howard Parnell looked intently."


Dignam 18PD and Boylan 5BB and the cavacade 19vc and Cunningham/Nolan 15MC intersect:

15MC29 "Outside la Maison Claire Blazes Boylan waylaid Jack Mooney's brother-in-law, humpy, tight, making for the liberties."
18PD29 "In Grafton street Master Dignam saw a red flower in a toff's mouth and a swell pair of kicks on him and he listening to what the drunk was telling him and grinning all the time."

19vc36 "Beyond Lundy Foot's from the shaded door of Kavanagh's winerooms John Wyse Nolan smiled with unseen coldness towards the lord lieutenantgeneral and general governor of Ireland."
15MC78 "All turned where they stood. John Wyse Nolan came down again. From the cool shadow of the doorway he saw the horses pass Parliament street, harness and glossy pasterns in sunlight shimmering. Gaily they went past before his cool unfriendly eyes, not quickly. In saddles of the leaders, leaping leaders, rode outriders."

19vc65 "By the provost's wall came jauntily Blazes Boylan..."

19vc90 "As the glossy horses pranced by Merrion square Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, waiting, saw salutes being given to the gent with the topper and raised also his new black cap with fingers greased by porksteak paper. His collar too sprang up."