Linati schema for Ulysses
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This schema, or explanatory outline, for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce, in 1920 in order to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book.[1] The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.
Title | Time | Colour | People | Science / Art | Meaning |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Telemachus | 8 — 9 a.m. | Gold / white | Theology | Dispossessed son in contest | |
Nestor | 9 — 10 a.m. | Brown | History | The wisdom of the ancients | |
Proteus | 10 — 11 a.m. | Green[a] | Philology | Primal matter | |
Calypso | 8 — 9 a.m. | Orange | Mythology | The departing wayfarer | |
Lotus Eaters | 9 — 10 a.m. | Dark brown | Chemistry | The temptation of faith | |
Hades | 11 a.m. — 12 noon | Black-white | - | The descent into nothingness | |
Aeolus | 12 noon — 1 p.m. | Red |
|
Rhetoric | The derision of victory |
Lestrygonians | 1 — 2 p.m. | Blood red |
|
Architecture | Despondency |
Scylla and Charybdis | 2 — 3 p.m. | - | Literature | The double-edge sword | |
Wandering Rocks | 3 — 4 p.m. | Rainbow | Mechanics | The hostile milieu | |
Sirens | 4 — 5 p.m. | Coral | Music | The sweet deceit | |
Cyclops | 5 — 6 p.m. | Green |
|
Surgery | Egocidal terror |
Nausicaa | 8 — 9 p.m. | Grey | Painting | The projected mirage | |
Oxen of the Sun | 10pm - 11pm | White |
|
Physics | The eternal herds |
Circe | 11 p.m. — 12 midnight | Violet |
|
Dance | The man-hating ogress |
Eumaeus | 12 midnight — 1 a.m. | - |
|
- | The ambush on home ground |
Ithaca | 1 — 2 a.m. | - |
|
- | Armed hope |
Penelope | - |
|
- | The past sleeps |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ellmann, Richard, Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-19-501663-5, pp. 186-188.
- ^ Ellman, p. 188.
- ^ Gifford, Don, with Robert J. Seidman, Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, Second Edition, University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-520-06745-5, p. 44.