James Joyce's Ulysses: A Photo Tour of Dublin

The action of this chapter takes place in and around the Martello Tower at Sandycove, on the coast some 8 miles south of Dublin. The tower is now a Joyce Museum.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead...

In the gloomy domed livingroom of the tower Buck Mulligan's gowned form moved briskly about the hearth to and fro, hiding and revealing its yellow glow. Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans ...
The key scraped round harshly twice and, when the heavy door had been set ajar, welcome light and bright air entered. (11-12)

"In the gloomy domed livingroom of the tower..." (11)

Scene: The Tower

Hour: 8 am

Organ: --

Art: Theology

Colour: White, gold

Symbol: Heir

Technic: Narrative (young)

Correspondences:

Stephen: Telemachus, Hamlet

Mulligan: Antinous

Milkwoman: Mentor

The Forty Foot bathing pool, seen from the top of the martello tower.

[Mulligan] capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury's hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdlike cries. (19)

The Forty Foot bathing spot, from the top of the martello tower

On the left, the entrance to the Forty Foot. The sign originally read "Gentlemen's Bathing Pool" until the first word was obliterated by red paint.

"The snotgreen sea. The scotumtightening sea." (5)

A voice, sweettoned and sustained, called to him from the sea. Turning the curve, he waved his hand. It called again. A sleek brown head, a seal's, far out in the water, round. (23)

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. (5)

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