We stopped at "... watched the carriages go by." (Penguin: 325. 27) , (Gabler: 10.1205)
Last week we had stopped on the steps of the City hall. Elsewhere Martin Cunningham and Mr Power were going in a carriage from the Dublin Castle. John Wyse Nolan was lagging behind, reading the list.
Today, it became clear that this list was a list of donations for Patrick Dignam's family. Bloom enters the picture here though not in person. He had put his name down for five shillings. And had put down (paid) the five shillings too. Soon we realize that this act of Bloom is a real kind one ( 'there is much kindness in the jew' as Antonio said about Shylock in the 3rd scene of act 1 in The Merchant of Venice).
This is especially true when contrasted with that of Father Conmee who had just blessed the onelegged sailor without giving out any coin, and with Stephen who does not give any penny to Dilly though he had received his payment from Mr Deasy that morning (episode 2) and had spent it on offering drinks to the men in the newspaper office (episode 7), and now with the reluctance of the subsheriff, long John, to contribute anything at all to the Dignam family. As Cunningham is explaining to long John who Patrick Dignam was, they see the horses pass Parliament street, harness and glossy pasterns in sunning shimmering, the viceroy's passing cavalcade acting like a punctuation mark in this entire episode.
Last week we had stopped on the steps of the City hall. Elsewhere Martin Cunningham and Mr Power were going in a carriage from the Dublin Castle. John Wyse Nolan was lagging behind, reading the list.
Today, it became clear that this list was a list of donations for Patrick Dignam's family. Bloom enters the picture here though not in person. He had put his name down for five shillings. And had put down (paid) the five shillings too. Soon we realize that this act of Bloom is a real kind one ( 'there is much kindness in the jew' as Antonio said about Shylock in the 3rd scene of act 1 in The Merchant of Venice).
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The next wanderers we meet are Buck Mulligan and Haines, sitting in D. B. C. (Dublin Bakery Company) at a small table near the window, opposite John Howard Parnell, who is immersed in a game of chess. Having Melanges, they talk about Stephen. When Mulligan says, '... but you missed Dedalus on Hamlet', Haines comes across as being a bit disrespectful when he replies, 'Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance'. Mulligan tries to explain Stephen's behaviour hinting at the sermon he (Stephen) had heard as a school boy (They drove his wits astray...). The reference meant here is the chapter 3 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Mulligan also pronounces his personal judgement on Stephen - He can never be a poet. The joy of creation... - saying, while chewing and laughing, 'He is going to write something in ten years.' (See note below.)
As Mulligan and Haines are enjoying their melange with real Irish cream, the light crumpled throwaway announcing 'Elijah is coming!' sails eastward by flanks of ships and trawlers.
We meet, once again, Stephan's teacher, Almidano Artifoni, who had earlier missed the Dalkey tram, (Penguin: 293.26) now walking past Holles street. We also observe how Cashel Boyle O'Connar Fitzmaurice Tindall Farrell's dustcoat brushes rudely the slender tapping cane of a blind stripling. We had encountered this blind man earlier when Bloom helped him to cross Dawson street across to Molesworth street (episode 8). The way this blind person curses Farrell shows that he is anything but thewless (timid)!
The most engaging - and moving - section of the entire episode is the one with Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, whose father was buried just that morning. He is still dressed up in stiff and uncomfortable collars (the blooming stud was too small for the buttonhole of the shirt). We experience death and its effects from the eyes and minds of a young boy. Seeing schoolboys, young Dignam wonders, 'Do they notice I'm in mourning?' He remembers his uncle Barney saying that the death notice will be in the paper that night (my name printed and pa's name.) He recalls seeing his dead father (his face got all grey instead of being red and there was a fly walking over it up to his eye). The finality of death strikes the young fellow when he thinks, 'Never see him again. Death, that is. Pa is dead. My father is dead.' Young Dignam finally hopes that his father is in purgatory now because he went to confession to Father Conroy on Saturday night. (According to Don Gifford, Patrick Dignam had sinned by going on (= having?) at least one drink, but as he had confessed his sins and been absolved, his soul has been adjudged to purgatory where he will complete his penance before entering heaven though he had not received extreme unction his death being sudden (Gifford, Ulysses Annotated, 10.1173)
What we read next is a sort of a summary of all these pages we have read so far in this episode. It brings together who all saw the passing viceroy's cavalcade, and what various people were engaged in as the cavalcade passed.
Note: Mulligan's prophecy that Stephen is going to write something in ten years must be noted in conjunction with two dates: the year (1904) Joyce assigns to the day of his Ulysses and the year (1914) in which he started to write Ulysses. Another hint that Stephan is the alter ego of J. J.?
We meet, once again, Stephan's teacher, Almidano Artifoni, who had earlier missed the Dalkey tram, (Penguin: 293.26) now walking past Holles street. We also observe how Cashel Boyle O'Connar Fitzmaurice Tindall Farrell's dustcoat brushes rudely the slender tapping cane of a blind stripling. We had encountered this blind man earlier when Bloom helped him to cross Dawson street across to Molesworth street (episode 8). The way this blind person curses Farrell shows that he is anything but thewless (timid)!
The most engaging - and moving - section of the entire episode is the one with Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, whose father was buried just that morning. He is still dressed up in stiff and uncomfortable collars (the blooming stud was too small for the buttonhole of the shirt). We experience death and its effects from the eyes and minds of a young boy. Seeing schoolboys, young Dignam wonders, 'Do they notice I'm in mourning?' He remembers his uncle Barney saying that the death notice will be in the paper that night (my name printed and pa's name.) He recalls seeing his dead father (his face got all grey instead of being red and there was a fly walking over it up to his eye). The finality of death strikes the young fellow when he thinks, 'Never see him again. Death, that is. Pa is dead. My father is dead.' Young Dignam finally hopes that his father is in purgatory now because he went to confession to Father Conroy on Saturday night. (According to Don Gifford, Patrick Dignam had sinned by going on (= having?) at least one drink, but as he had confessed his sins and been absolved, his soul has been adjudged to purgatory where he will complete his penance before entering heaven though he had not received extreme unction his death being sudden (Gifford, Ulysses Annotated, 10.1173)
What we read next is a sort of a summary of all these pages we have read so far in this episode. It brings together who all saw the passing viceroy's cavalcade, and what various people were engaged in as the cavalcade passed.
Note: Mulligan's prophecy that Stephen is going to write something in ten years must be noted in conjunction with two dates: the year (1904) Joyce assigns to the day of his Ulysses and the year (1914) in which he started to write Ulysses. Another hint that Stephan is the alter ego of J. J.?
