Scylla & Charybdis
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Lapwing
Near the end of “Scylla and Charybdis,” Ulysses’ ninth episode, Stephen realizes his lecture on Hamlet is rapidly disintegrating before his eyes. Not only are John Eglinton and the rest wholly unconvinced by his arguments, but he also has Buck Mulligan nipping at his heels, undermining him at every opportunity. Stephen looks to the heavens…
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A Shakespearean Ghoststory Part 3: Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund
This is part three of a three part series about searching for real-life “ghosts” by prying into Shakespeare’s personal life. You can read part one here and part two here. Near the end of “Scylla and Charybdis,” Ulysses’ ninth episode, Stephen finally arrives at the rousing conclusion of his Shakespeare theory: not only did Shakespeare…
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Decoding Dedalus: Saint Thomas’ New Viennese School
This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 205-206 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage…
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Decoding Dedalus: He drew Shylock out of his own long pocket.
This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 204 – 205 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at…
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The Chap that Writes like Synge
Irish playwright John Millington Synge moves like a phantom through the pages of “Scylla and Charybdis”, Ulysses’ ninth episode. We get an allusion here, a namedrop there, but he never appears in person. Despite this absence, he is not spared the roasting that other Dublin literary types like Æ Russell, Richard Best and John Eglinton…
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An Intimate Portrait of Mr. W. H.
After Buck Mulligan’s raucous entrance in “Scylla and Charybdis”, Ulysses’ ninth episode, Stephen Dedalus struggles to regain composure and continue on with his theory of Hamlet. In the midst of this disorder, Mr. Best chimes in to share one of his favorite Shakespeare-inspired texts: “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” is a short story by Oscar…
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Decoding Dedalus: Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers.
This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p.191-192 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage that…
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Puck Mulligan: A Joycean-Shakespearean Fool
In “Scylla and Charybdis,” Ulysses’ ninth episode, just as Stephen Dedelaus’ exegesis on Hamlet in “Scylla and Charybdis,” Ulysses’ ninth episode, reaches a crescendo, he is suddenly and violently interrupted by a cry from the doorway, “Amen!” Could this be the proverbial shout in the street? Stephen despairs, thinking, “Hast thou found me, O mine…
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Decoding Dedalus: Christfox in Leather Trews
This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p.193 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage that…
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Decoding Dedalus: Entelechy, Form of Forms
This is a post in a series called Decoding Dedalus where I take a passage of Ulysses and break it down line by line. The line below comes from “Scylla and Charybdis,” the ninth episode of Ulysses. It appears on page p. 189-190 in my copy (1990 Vintage International). We’ll be looking at the passage…