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 Scylla & Charybdis images

James Joyce's Ulysses: A Dublin Tour
9. Scylla and Charybdis

entrance and portico to the National LibraryNational LibraryThe entrance to the National Library of Ireland (which, quite fittingly enough, is hosting a truly magnificent Joyce exhibition.for the Bloomsday centenary). Bloom and Stephen will pass briefly in the portico here at the end of the chapter, and Stephen will once more remember the dream he had last night, about a stranger who offers him hospitality.
     About to pass through the doorway, feeling one behind, [Stephen] stood aside. ...
     A man passed out between them, bowing, greeting.
     --Good day again, Buck Mulligan said.
     The portico.
     Here I watched the birds for augury. Ængus of the birds. They go, they come. Last night I flew. Easily flew. Men wondered. Street of harlots after. A creamfruit melon he held to me. In. You will see. (209)
Scene: The Library
Hour: 2 pm
Organ: Brain
Art: Literature
Colour: --
Symbol: Stratford, London
Technic: Dialectic
Correspondences:

Rock (Scylla): Aristotle, Dogma. Stratford

Whirlpool (Charybdis): Plato, Mysticism, London
Ulysses: Socrates, Jesus, Shakespeare
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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