Linati schema for Ulysses

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This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1920 to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.

Title Time Colour People Science / Art Meaning
Telemachus 8am - 9am Gold / white
  • Telemachus
  • Mentor
  • Antinous
  • The Suitors
  • Penelope
 Theology Dispossessed son in contest
Nestor 9am - 10am Brown
  • Telemachus
  • Nestor
  • Pisistratus
  • Helen
 History The wisdom of the ancients
Proteus 10am - 11am Blue
  • Telemachus
  • Proteus
  • Menelaus
  • Helen
  • Megapenthes
 Philology Primal matter
Calypso 8am - 9am Orange
  • Calypso
  • Penelope
  • Ulysses
  • Callidice
 Mythology The departing wayfarer
Lotus Eaters 9am - 10am Dark brown
  • Euryloches
  • Polites
  • Ulysses
  • Nausicaa
 Chemistry The temptation of faith
Hades 11am - 12pm Black-white
  • Ulysses
  • Elpenor
  • Ajax
  • Agamemnon
  • Hercules
  • Eriphyle
  • Sisyphus
  • Orion
  • Laertes etc.
  • Prometheus
  • Cerberus
  • Tiresais
  • Hades
  • Prosperpina
  • Telemachus
  • Antinous
 - The descent into nothingness
Aeolus 12pm - 1pm Red
  • Aeolus
  • Sons
  • Telemachus
  • Mentor
  • Ulysses
 Rhetoric The derision of victory
Lestrygonians 1pm - 2pm Blood red
  • Antiphates
  • The seductive daughter
  • Ulysses
 Architecture Despondency
Scylla and Charybdis 2pm - 3pm -
  • Scylla
  • Charybdis
  • Telemachus
  • Ulysses
  • Antinous
 Literature The double-edge sword
Wandering Rocks 3pm - 4pm Rainbow
  • Objects
  • Places
  • Forces
  • Ulysses
 Mechanics The hostile milieu
Sirens 4pm - 5pm Coral
  • Leucothea
  • Parthenope
  • Ulysses
  • Orpheus
  • Menelaus
  • Argonauts
 Music The sweet deceit
Cyclops 5pm - 6pm Green
  • Prometheus
  • Noman
  • Galatea
  • Ulysses
 Surgery Egocidal terror
Nausicaa 8pm - 9pm Grey
  • Nausicaa
  • Handmaidens
  • Alcinous
  • Arete
  • Ulysses
 Painting The projected mirage
Oxen of the Sun 10pm - 11pm White
  • Lampetie
  • Phaethusa
  • Helios Hyperion
  • Jove
  • Ulysses
 Physics The eternal herds
Circe 11pm - 12am Violet
  • Circe
  • The Swine
  • Telemachus
  • Ulysses
  • Hermes
 Dance The man-hating ogress
Eumaeus 12am - 1am -
  • Eumaeus
  • Ulysses
  • Telemachus
  • The Bad Goatherd
  • Pseudangelos
 - The ambush on home ground
Ithaca 1am - 2am -
  • Ulysses
  • Telemachus
  • Eurycleia
  • The suitors
 - Armed hope
Penelope \infty -
  • Ulysses
  • Laertes
  • Penelope
 - The past sleeps


Title Technic Organ Symbols
Telemachus

Dialogue for three and four, narration, soliloquy

 - Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen
Nestor

Dialogue for 2, narration, soliloquy

 - Ulster, woman, practical sense
Proteus

Soliloquy

 - World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis
Calypso

Dialogue for 2, soliloquy

 Kidneys Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity
Lotus Eaters

Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy

 Skin Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats
Hades

Dialogue, narration

 Heart Cemetery, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak
Aeolus

Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes

 Lungs Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability
Lestrygonians

Peristaltic prose

 Oesophagus

Bloody sacrifice, food, shame
Scylla and Charybdis

Whirlpools

 Brain

Hamlet, Shakespeare, Christ, Socrates, London, Stratford, scholasticism, mysticism, Plato, Aristotle, youth, maturity
Wandering Rocks

Shifting labyrinth between two shores

 Blood

Caesar, Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances
Sirens

Fuga per canonem

 Ear

Promises, female, sounds, embellishments
Cyclops Alternating asymmetry Muscles, bones

Nation, state, religion, dynasty, idealism, exaggeration, fanaticism, collectivity
Nausicaa Retrogressive progression Eye, nose

Onanism, feminine, hypocrisy
Oxen of the Sun

Prose, embryo, foetus, birth

 Matrix, uterus

Fertilisation, frauds, parthenogenesis
Circe

Exploding vision

 Locomotor apparatus, skeleton

Zoology, personification, pantheism, magic, poison, antidote, reel
Eumaeus Relaxed prose Nerves -
Ithaca

Dialogue, pacified style, fusion

 Juices -
Penelope

Monologue, resigned style

 Fat -

[edit] See also

Gilbert schema for Ulysses

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