Linati schema for Ulysses
{{short description|Schema for the novel 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.Ellmann, Richard, Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-19-501663-5}}, pp. 186-188. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.
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Title
! Time ! Colour ! People ! Meaning |
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Telemachus
| 8 — 9 a.m. | | Theology | Dispossessed son in contest |
Nestor
| 9 — 10 a.m. | Brown | | History | The wisdom of the ancients |
Proteus
| 10 — 11 a.m. | Green{{efn|Blue per Linati.Ellman, p. 188. Corrected to green per Don Gifford.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.}} | | Primal matter |
Calypso
| 8 — 9 a.m. | Orange | | The departing wayfarer |
Lotus Eaters
| 9 — 10 a.m. | | The temptation of faith |
Hades
| 11 a.m. — 12 noon |
| - | The descent into nothingness |
Aeolus
| 12 noon — 1 p.m. | Red |
| Rhetoric | The derision of victory |
Lestrygonians
| 1 — 2 p.m. |
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Scylla and Charybdis
| 2 — 3 p.m. | - | |
Wandering Rocks
| 3 — 4 p.m. | Rainbow | | 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 |
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Title
! Technic ! Organ ! Symbols |
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Telemachus
| Dialogue for three and four, | - |
Nestor
| Dialogue for 2, | - |
Proteus
| - | World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis |
Calypso
| Dialogue for 2, | Kidneys |
Lotus Eaters
| Skin | Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats |
Hades
| 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
| Bloody sacrifice, food, shame |
Scylla and Charybdis
| Whirlpools | Brain | Hamlet, |
Wandering Rocks
| Shifting labyrinth between two shores | Blood | Caesar, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances |
Sirens
| Fuga per canonem{{efn|Fuga per canonem: Latin for "fugue according to rule", a musical term for a round.}} | Ear | Promises, sounds, embellishments |
Cyclops
| Alternating asymmetry | Nation, state, exaggeration, collectivity |
Nausicaa
| Retrogressive progression | Onanism, feminine, |
Oxen of the Sun
| Prose, embryo, foetus, birth | Matrix, uterus frauds, |
Circe
| Exploding vision | Locomotor apparatus, skeleton | Zoology, reel |
Eumaeus
| Relaxed prose | Nerves | - |
Ithaca
| Dialogue, pacified style, fusion | Juices | - |
Penelope
| Monologue, resigned style | Fat | - |
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130409231530/http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/index.html Internet Ulysses]}}
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