Friday, May 29, 2015

ch23

Ch23
TS181-199
?MS804-837
St Stephen's magazine first issue 01Jun 1901, edited by Hugh Kennedy (not Skeffington)
p182: 'Girilis' pun on 'Virilis' [def] cf FW112
'Sitio' = 'I thirst' (eg John 19:28 qv)
'magazine in her convent': Loreto College, Loreto Magazine [pc188]
Eschylus [etext]

Lo ye, a second sign-- these footsteps, looks-- Like to my own, a corresponsive print; And look, another footmark, --this his own, And that the foot of one who walked with him. Mark, how the heel and tendons' print combine, Measured exact, with mine coincident!
MS827/ TS194 is pictured at TS236
"I believe... I write much better now than when I was in Dublin and the incident in Chap. XXIII (?) where Stephen makes 'love' to Emma Clery I consider a remarkable piece of writing." [L2-93, 12Jul 1905, JAJ's qmark]

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

ch24

Ch24
TS200-218
?MS838-872
finished 07Jun 1905 [L2-91]
Book of Common Prayer [etext]
billiards: this may be a fictionalisation of Byrne's chess-playing? (I don't remember his biog mentioning billiards)
torpedo: Ibsen-reference: Til min Ven Revolutions-Taleren: 'I sørger for vandflom til verdensmarken. Jeg lægger med lyst torpédo under Arken' (You deluge the world to its topmost mark; with pleasure I will torpedo the Ark) [cite]
first epiphany probably late 1901

Monday, March 30, 2015

ch25

Ch25
TS219-234
MS873?-902
JAJ told Grant Richards SH had 914 pages, so 12 are lost at the end.
written June 1905 [L2-91]
Joyce saw this as the last of the eleven chapters of the 'University College episode'. 

Friday, February 27, 2015

later chapters

Ch63


28Feb 1905: "I have come to accept my present situation as a voluntary exile... it supplies me with the note on which I propose to bring my novel to a close." [SL56]