As we completed episode 10 and started with Sirens, episode 11, there will be two posts this week, PART A dealing with the last section of episode 10 and PART B introducing episode 11.
PART A:
The last section of episode 10 (Penguin 324 - 328) summarizes the wanderings of all those Dubliners we met earlier in this episode along with many we had met in earlier episodes. (With one exception. We meet Gerty MacDowell for the first time in this section. She will appear prominently later in Nausicaa, episode 13.) In doing so James Joyce has painted such an intimate picture of Dublin and Dubliners that he succeeds in making us readers feel that we are in the city, that we also are Dubliners.
The passing of the viceroy's cavalcade is observed by many who are themselves passing along the streets of Dublin. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis. For example, above the cross blind of the Ormond hotel, gold by bronze, Miss Kennedy's head by Miss Douce's head watched and admired. Some of the greeters are noticed by those in the cavalcade, and some like Thomas Kernan are not (Penguin 324.28). Some like Young Dignam, whose father was buried that morning, see the cavalcade but do not recognize the personages inside (Penguin 328.7). Some like Mr Breen salute the wrong carriage! (Penguin 326.32).
The five whitesmoked sandwichmen wearing tall white hats displaying H. E. L. Y. S. halt (H. first, and the rest behind him) at Ponsonby's corner near the College Green allowing the outriders of the cavalcade to prance past. (Bloom had met these five men in episode 8.) Blazes Boylan hurrying in his wide brimmed straw hat at a rakish angle, a suit of indigo serge and skyblue tie for his rendezvous with Molly Bloom at 4 pm forgets to salute but offers to the three ladies the bold admiration of his eyes and the red flower between his lips. The two women whom Stephen had met on the Sandymount beach (Penguin 46.10) view with wonder the lord mayor (without his golden chain) and lady mayoress.
The passing of the cavalcade does not naturally affect all the daily business of Dublin. The cycling event - the half-mile bicycle handicap - is underway at Trinity with nine handicappers. (Barang, the lastlap bell had rung while Dilly was waiting for her father in front of Dillon's auctionrooms.) From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Dewan's office Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage. - symbolic of the Irish attitude towards the British regality? (Here is an interesting information from Gifford's Annotations / 10.1196: Tom Devan worked in the Dublin Corporation Cleanisng Department on Wood Quay. The department was the focus of controversy because of repeated delays in the construction of a centralized sewage system for Dublin.)
The posters of Marie Kendall and Mr Eugene Stratton continue to smile down on all those who happen to pass by.
It is 3 pm on the 16th of June 1904 in Dublin.
Note: It is possible that the board-game shown below, which Joyce played with his daughter, Lucia, inspired this labyrinth of an episode! More information here.
PART A:
The last section of episode 10 (Penguin 324 - 328) summarizes the wanderings of all those Dubliners we met earlier in this episode along with many we had met in earlier episodes. (With one exception. We meet Gerty MacDowell for the first time in this section. She will appear prominently later in Nausicaa, episode 13.) In doing so James Joyce has painted such an intimate picture of Dublin and Dubliners that he succeeds in making us readers feel that we are in the city, that we also are Dubliners.
The passing of the viceroy's cavalcade is observed by many who are themselves passing along the streets of Dublin. The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis. For example, above the cross blind of the Ormond hotel, gold by bronze, Miss Kennedy's head by Miss Douce's head watched and admired. Some of the greeters are noticed by those in the cavalcade, and some like Thomas Kernan are not (Penguin 324.28). Some like Young Dignam, whose father was buried that morning, see the cavalcade but do not recognize the personages inside (Penguin 328.7). Some like Mr Breen salute the wrong carriage! (Penguin 326.32).
The five whitesmoked sandwichmen wearing tall white hats displaying H. E. L. Y. S. halt (H. first, and the rest behind him) at Ponsonby's corner near the College Green allowing the outriders of the cavalcade to prance past. (Bloom had met these five men in episode 8.) Blazes Boylan hurrying in his wide brimmed straw hat at a rakish angle, a suit of indigo serge and skyblue tie for his rendezvous with Molly Bloom at 4 pm forgets to salute but offers to the three ladies the bold admiration of his eyes and the red flower between his lips. The two women whom Stephen had met on the Sandymount beach (Penguin 46.10) view with wonder the lord mayor (without his golden chain) and lady mayoress.
The passing of the cavalcade does not naturally affect all the daily business of Dublin. The cycling event - the half-mile bicycle handicap - is underway at Trinity with nine handicappers. (Barang, the lastlap bell had rung while Dilly was waiting for her father in front of Dillon's auctionrooms.) From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Dewan's office Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage. - symbolic of the Irish attitude towards the British regality? (Here is an interesting information from Gifford's Annotations / 10.1196: Tom Devan worked in the Dublin Corporation Cleanisng Department on Wood Quay. The department was the focus of controversy because of repeated delays in the construction of a centralized sewage system for Dublin.)
The posters of Marie Kendall and Mr Eugene Stratton continue to smile down on all those who happen to pass by.
It is 3 pm on the 16th of June 1904 in Dublin.
Note: It is possible that the board-game shown below, which Joyce played with his daughter, Lucia, inspired this labyrinth of an episode! More information here.
