In his broad bed nuncle Richie, pillowed and blanketed, extends over the
7. Stephen is haunted by thoughts of his mother are connected in Stephen's mind with argument in this guise. about the relation between God the Father and 8. Eternal law (Latin). God's eternal law, Stephen God the Son and so with the problem of the true reflects, willed his birth from the beginning. He nature of paternity, which haunts him constantly. then goes on to speculate on the nature of the 3. Mananaan MacLir, Celtic sea god; his steeds divine substance and whether God the Father and are the 'whitemaned seahorses.' ('White horses' God the Son are of the same substance ('consub-is still the name in Britain for the white foam atop stantial'). waves.) 9. Third- century theologian who 'tried conclu-4. Mr. Deasy had given Stephen a letter to the sions' on this matter, maintaining that Christ was press to be taken to the newspaper office. After less divine than God (Arius's views were con-that he has an appointment with Mulligan at The demned as heretical by the Council of Nicaea in Ship, a tavern. 'That money' is Mr. Deasy's last 325). payment to him. 1. Ironic 'portmanteau word' made up of terms 5. Stephen has been wondering whether to call on connected with the Arian controversy?'consub-his uncle and aunt, Richie and Sara Goulding. He stantial,' 'transubstantial' (of a substance that imagines his father interrogating him about the changes into another)?and with the facts of visit as if he had gone; he then pictures his cousins Christ's nature (e.g., 'Jew'; Jesus was a Jew, as asking after his father, Simon Dedalus (his cousins' Leopold Bloom in a later episode reminds an anti-'uncle Si'). Simon is contemptuous of his wife's Semitic Irishman). relations (Sara Goulding is his wife's sister). Ste2. Arch-heretic. Arius died suddenly in Constan-phen knows that any mention of them will bring tinople in 336. He was never a bishop, and Ste-on the familiar abuse of 'the things I married phen's image of him at the moment of death in full into'?at best 'highly respectable gondoliers' episcopal attire seems to combine recollections of (from Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Gondoliers). other early 'heresiarchs.' In an earlier reverie Ste-The scene that follows is also Stephen's purely phen had conjured up in his mind 'a horde of imaginary picture of what the visit would be like. heresies fleeing with mitres awry.' These heretics 6. Favorable corner.
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hillock of his knees a sturdy forearm. Cleanchested. He has washed the upper moiety.
?Morrow, nephew.
He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of Duces Tecum.1 A bogoak frame over his bald head: Wilde's Requiescat.8 The drone of his misleading whistle brings Walter back.
?Yes, sir?
?Malt9 for Richie and Stephen, tell mother. Where is she?
?Bathing Crissie, sir.
Papa's little bedpal. Lump of love.
?No, uncle Richie . . .
?Call me Richie. Damn your lithia water.1 It lowers. Whusky!
?Uncle Richie, really. . . .
?Sit down or by the law Harry I'll knock you down.
Walter squints vainly for a chair.
?He has nothing to sit down on, sir.
?He has nowhere to put it, you mug. Bring in our chippendale chair. Would you like a bite of something? None of your damned lawdeedaw air here: the rich of a rasher fried with a herring? Sure? So much the better. We have nothing in the house but backache pills.
All'erta!2 He drones bars of Ferrando's aria di sortita. The grandest number, Stephen, in the whole opera. Listen. His tuneful whistle sounds again, finely shaded, with rushes of the air, his fists bigdrumming on his padded knees.
This wind is sweeter.
Houses of decay, mine, his and all. You told the Clongowes gentry you had an uncle a judge and an uncle a general in the army.3 Come out of them, Stephen. Beauty is not there. Nor in the stagnant bay of Marsh's library where you read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas.4 For whom? The hundred- headed rabble of the cathedral close.5 A hater of his kind ran from them to the wood of madness, his mane foaming in the moon, his eyeballs stars. Houyhnhnm, horsenostrilled.6 The oval equine faces, Temple, Buck Mulligan, Foxy Campbell. Lantern jaws. Abbas7 father, furious dean, what offence laid fire to their brains? Paff! Descende, calve, ut nimium decalveris.8 A garland of
7. You shall take with you (Latin); opening words 5. I.e., the precinct of a cathedral (Marsh's Library of a search warrant. Goulding was a law clerk with is in the close of St. Patrick's Cathedral). Messrs. Goff and Tandy. 6. St. Patrick's Close has recalled Jonathan Swift, 8. Poem by Oscar Wilde. who was dean of St. Patrick's. Stephen remembers 9. Whiskey. Swift's misanthropy (he was 'a hater of his kind') 1. Mineral water containing lithium salts, often and his creation of the Houyhnhnms (noble used therapeutically. horses) in book 4 of Gidliver's Travels. Then he 2. Look out! (Italian); the first words of the aria di thinks of people he knew who have horse faces. sortita (aria sung by a character about to leave the 7. Literally: father. stage) sung by Ferrando, captain of the guard, in 8. Go down, bald-head, lest you become even Verdi's opera II Trovatore. balder (Latin). This sentence, from Joachim's Con3. Stephen, reflecting on the steady social decline cordia of the Old and New Testaments, is based of his family, is remembering that, while at school on the mocking cry of the children to the prophet at Clongowes Wood College, he had pretended to Elisha (2 Kings 2.23: 'Go up, thou bald head'); have important relations. Joachim saw Elisha as a forerunner of St. Bene4. Abbot Joachim of Floris (the monastery of San dict?both had shaven or baldish heads. Stephen Giovanni in Fiore, Italy), 12th-century mystic and goes on to imagine the 'comminated' (threatened) theologian, whose prophetic work Expositio in head of Joachim descending, clutching a 'monA- pocalypsin Stephen (like Joyce) had read in strance' (receptacle in which the Host [conseMarsh's Library. crated bread or wafer] is exposed for adoration), in
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grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace (?descende), clutching a monstrance, basiliskeyed. Get down, bald poll! A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altars horns, the snorted Latin of jackpriests moving burly in their albs, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the fat of
