We stopped at a recurring phrase, an echo of an earlier thought of Stephan, at "Bullockbefriending bard." (Gabler 7.528) (Penguin 168.7)
Yes. Stephen reappears. We had left him at the end of the third episode, though we did have a glance of him when Bloom and others were going in a carriage to Dignam's funeral (Penguin /p.109). We meet many others too on these pages, many of them characters we know from The Dubliners.
Bloom has left the typesetting/printing room and has entered softly the office of the Evening Telegraph. His entrance is marked only by professor MacHugh, who murmurs - biscuitfully to the dusty windowpane -, 'The ghost walks.' (According to Gifford (7.237), this is a theatrical and journalistic slang for 'salaries are being paid.') The other two - Ned Lambert and Simon Dedalus - in the room do not pay any attention to Bloom. They are busy having delightful fun, reading a passage by Dan Dawson in that day's newspaper. The professor, eating a biscuit - a water biscuit ( i.e., a cracker) - does not want to hear any more of that stuff. Bloom stands aside, having his own thoughts about J. J. O'Molloy, who has by then come in, and about Dan Dawson, who is referred to as Doughy Daw by MacHugh.
Finally thinking that life is too short (to spend reading such articles as by Dawson), Simon Dedalus whisks Ned Lambert away to have a drink. Myles Crawford, the editor, who has come out of his inner office, is not ready to join them just then. Seeing the coast (being) clear, Bloom moves to the inner office, saying, "Just a moment, Mr. Crawford... I just want to phone about an ad." Obviously there was just one telephone there, in the editor's office. We get to hear Bloom's making the telephone when there are silent interludes in the room; 'Twentyeight..... No, twenty.... Double four.... Yes.' Soon Bloom leaves the office of the Evening Telegraph and goes in search of Keyes to fix up the ad.
Meanwhile Lenehan has also come out of the inner office, and is his usual jocular self. He manages to get a cigarette from J. J. O'Molloy after he lights his and MacHugh's cigarettes. Just as Lenehan starts to pose a riddle* that nobody seems to want to hear, enter Stephen and Mr O'Madden Burke. Stephen has brought the letter, which Mr. Deasy had given him that morning. It is on on the foot and mouth disease. Sitting on the rocks at the beach that morning, Stephen had thought of a poem, and having had no paper to jot it down, had torn of a piece of paper from that letter. As the editor notices the torn part, the poem comes back to Stephen's mind.
On swift sail flaming
From storm and south
He comes, Pale Vampire,
Mouth to my mouth.
As MacHugh peers over the letter and notices that it is about the foot and mouth disease, and asks "Are you turned....?", Stephen recalls what he had thought that morning as he got the letter from Mr. Deasy: "Mulligan will dub me a new name: the bullockbefriending bard." (Penguin/ p.44)
Joyce, having given the name Aeolus to this episode, has included in this episode lots of references to wind: gale, windfall, whirlwind, hurricane, ... The episode has many references to features of languages and literature: doric, cretic,... (doric is a Scottish dialect, cretic is a meter.) The meanings of the subtitles are sometimes obvious, sometimes not. It is, in any case, a noisy episode with lots of interruptions but is also a very graphical, a very visual episode. Almost cinematic in nature.
*Lenehan's riddle: What opera resembles a railway line?
Reflect, ponder, excogitate, reply.
Yes. Stephen reappears. We had left him at the end of the third episode, though we did have a glance of him when Bloom and others were going in a carriage to Dignam's funeral (Penguin /p.109). We meet many others too on these pages, many of them characters we know from The Dubliners.
Bloom has left the typesetting/printing room and has entered softly the office of the Evening Telegraph. His entrance is marked only by professor MacHugh, who murmurs - biscuitfully to the dusty windowpane -, 'The ghost walks.' (According to Gifford (7.237), this is a theatrical and journalistic slang for 'salaries are being paid.') The other two - Ned Lambert and Simon Dedalus - in the room do not pay any attention to Bloom. They are busy having delightful fun, reading a passage by Dan Dawson in that day's newspaper. The professor, eating a biscuit - a water biscuit ( i.e., a cracker) - does not want to hear any more of that stuff. Bloom stands aside, having his own thoughts about J. J. O'Molloy, who has by then come in, and about Dan Dawson, who is referred to as Doughy Daw by MacHugh.
Finally thinking that life is too short (to spend reading such articles as by Dawson), Simon Dedalus whisks Ned Lambert away to have a drink. Myles Crawford, the editor, who has come out of his inner office, is not ready to join them just then. Seeing the coast (being) clear, Bloom moves to the inner office, saying, "Just a moment, Mr. Crawford... I just want to phone about an ad." Obviously there was just one telephone there, in the editor's office. We get to hear Bloom's making the telephone when there are silent interludes in the room; 'Twentyeight..... No, twenty.... Double four.... Yes.' Soon Bloom leaves the office of the Evening Telegraph and goes in search of Keyes to fix up the ad.
Meanwhile Lenehan has also come out of the inner office, and is his usual jocular self. He manages to get a cigarette from J. J. O'Molloy after he lights his and MacHugh's cigarettes. Just as Lenehan starts to pose a riddle* that nobody seems to want to hear, enter Stephen and Mr O'Madden Burke. Stephen has brought the letter, which Mr. Deasy had given him that morning. It is on on the foot and mouth disease. Sitting on the rocks at the beach that morning, Stephen had thought of a poem, and having had no paper to jot it down, had torn of a piece of paper from that letter. As the editor notices the torn part, the poem comes back to Stephen's mind.
On swift sail flaming
From storm and south
He comes, Pale Vampire,
Mouth to my mouth.
As MacHugh peers over the letter and notices that it is about the foot and mouth disease, and asks "Are you turned....?", Stephen recalls what he had thought that morning as he got the letter from Mr. Deasy: "Mulligan will dub me a new name: the bullockbefriending bard." (Penguin/ p.44)
Joyce, having given the name Aeolus to this episode, has included in this episode lots of references to wind: gale, windfall, whirlwind, hurricane, ... The episode has many references to features of languages and literature: doric, cretic,... (doric is a Scottish dialect, cretic is a meter.) The meanings of the subtitles are sometimes obvious, sometimes not. It is, in any case, a noisy episode with lots of interruptions but is also a very graphical, a very visual episode. Almost cinematic in nature.
*Lenehan's riddle: What opera resembles a railway line?
Reflect, ponder, excogitate, reply.
