1. Telemachus
2. Nestor
3. Proteus
4. Calypso
5. Lotus Eaters
6. Hades
7. Aeolus
8. Lestrygonians
9. Scylla and Charybdis
10. Wandering Rocks
11. Sirens
12. Cyclops
13. Nausicaa
14. Oxen of the Sun

15. Circe
16. Eumaeus
17. Ithaca
18. Penelope
 
Aida Yared's Penelope images

James Joyce's Ulysses: A Dublin Tour
18. Penelope
Scene: The Bed
Hour: --
Organ: Flesh
Art: --
Colour: --
Symbol: Earth
Technic: Monologue (female)
Correspondences:
Penelope: Earth
Web: movement
At first sight, there's nothing much to document here, in a chapter set in a bed in a house we've been to before. But that's not quite true. "Penelope" is one of the most wide-ranging chapters of Ulysses, as Molly casts her mind back to the Blooms' early life together (this is the chapter in which we learn the most about their past), the places they've lived in over the years ("Raymond terrace and Ontario terrace and Lombard street and Holles street" and the "city Arms Hotel" (722)), the places Bloom has worked ("Thoms and Helys and Mr Cuffes and Drimmies" (722)), her own life before they met, and, above all, Gibraltar. But there's a limit to what you can do with a couple of days and a camera in Dublin.
Ulysses Home
1: Telemachus | 2: Nestor | 3: Proteus
4: Calypso | 5: Lotus Eaters | 6: Hades | 7: Aeolus | 8: Lestrygonians | 9: Scylla and Charybdis
10: Wandering Rocks | 11: Sirens | 12: Cyclops | 13: Nausicaa | 14: Oxen of the Sun | 15: Circe
16: Eumaeus | 17: Ithaca | 18: Penelope

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