Episode 2. The Mocking Continues

Delaney: [2]

WORD: 'parapet'

the 'parapet' is not the whole roof, just the surrounding wall [Wiktionary]

QUOTE: Gogarty's life "ruined"?

where does Gogarty say Ulysses ruined his life?

Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:
— Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!

NUANCE: halted by what?

"Halted" (by what?)

WHAT: stairs (pic)

"the dark winding stairs"

NUANCE: called down

Joyce seems to have rejected the obvious 'called down' in favor of 'up' or 'out' (depending on the draft)
"called [up | out] coarsely" (given the thick walls and narrow stairs, he'd have to be loud)

ALLUSION: Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet, opening line of III.3:
FRIAR LAURENCE Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:

NUANCE: Kinch

p4: "O, my name for you is the best: Kinch, the knifeblade."
cf kink and cinch
Dialect Dictionary: "A loop, twist, noose of a rope, a hitch. (cf kink}. Kinsch-pin: a pin or stick used in twisting the ropes which bind anything together to make them firmer. A sudden twist in wrestling. An unfair or unexpected advantage; a favour; a hold. 'To keep kinches' = to act together. To manage anything dexterously (to keep their kinches). To twist, loop, knot, to tighten by twisting. To strain a muscle. A hole dug in a grassy beach; having the bottom and side puddled with clay ('the kinch was filled to the brim'). The young fry of fish. A small portion or quantity ('a kinch of bread')"
Mulligan will use "Kinch" 20 times in this episode, less than 10 times more in the rest of the book (is there any evidence Gogarty used it of Joyce?)

ECHO: (scene)

images from this episode will reappear at the climax of episode 15:
U539: "(From the top of a tower Buck Mulligan, in particoloured jester's dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell, stands gaping at her, a smoking buttered split scone in his hand.)
BUCK MULLIGAN She's beastly dead. The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted mother. (He upturns his eyes.) Mercurial Malachi.
THE MOTHER (With the subtle smile of death's madness.) I was once the beautiful May Goulding. I am dead.
STEPHEN (Horrorstruck.) Lemur, who are you? No. What bogeyman's trick is this?
BUCK MULLIGAN (Shakes his curling capbell.) The mockery of it! Kinch dogsbody killed her bitchbody. She kicked the bucket. (Tears of molten butter fall from his eyes on to the scone.) Our great sweet mother! Epi oinopa ponton."

MOTIVATION: ego?

'Not having an audience is intolerable for Mulligan'? cite

NUANCE: come/fearful

had he assumed SD was following him? is he accusing SD of balking at the stairs?

ECHO: jejune jesuit

p4: "Will he come? The jejune jesuit!"

Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest.
He faced about and blessed gravely thrice
the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains.

NUANCE: Solemnly

"Stately... coarsely... Solemnly" Buck is switching (mercurially) between an apparently solemn performance and an actually coarse character
(so the coarseness was an aside)

CHOREOGRAPHY: hands

again holding shaving stuff down with one hand?

WHAT: gunrest

gunrest (about 6" high, 6ft diameter)
actually called a 'traversing platform' or 'pivot block' [pdf]
"gunrest" usually refers to a support at the barrel end, for aiming
(but who'd remember what they'd officially called it in 1805?)

CHOREOGRAPHY: faced about

He had to be facing the gunrest as he mounted it, but now he turns around 180 degrees to face the stairs again

RESEARCH: blessed

is this a gesture or a phrase?

ECHO: gravely

"Stately... coarsely... Solemnly... gravely"
episode 6 (Hades) ends in a graveyard

RESEARCH: thrice

"thrice" (3 each or 3 total?)

WHERE: surrounding country

"surrounding country" land to south and west
he omits the bay (water to north and east not blessed!?)

WHERE: mountains

mountains in southwest
"awaking" not 'awakening'

Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus,
he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air,
gurgling in his throat and shaking his head.

WHO: Stephen Dedalus

maybe a parody of exorcism? [1913] "a simple and authoritative adjuration addressed to the demon in the name of God" but Stephen will call it blessing

he must use his free hand while holding the shaving stuff in the other

TROJAN HORSE: we should probably see this opening as the active betrayal of Stephen and Ireland to the British and the Roman Catholics, as Odysseus betrayed Troy with the deceptive strategem of the Trojan horse

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[dd 00:00-02:43]
(i imagine BM's accent being much more upperclass than DD's version here)

[im 00:00-02:28]

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[lv2 00:22-02:13]

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