"The Holy Office" (annotated) 1904 poem by James Joyce

The Holy Office

[the unapologetic braggadocio and contempt for all his competition establish this as uniquely Edwardian battle-rap. Joyce's newfound success with Nora may have given him confidence]

Myself unto myself will give
This name Katharsis-Purgative.

Aristotle describes catharsis as the purging of the emotions of pity and fear that are aroused in the viewer of a tragedy

'cathartic' and 'purgative' were slightly less genteel (?) terms for laxatives.

I, who dishevelled ways forsook
To hold the poets' grammar-book,

'dishevelled' usually refers to hair

so when did he forsake these ways?
for which poets?
(instead of joining the 'dishevelled' Dublin literary community, he announces himself as their... higher conscience?)

Bringing to tavern and to brothel
The mind of witty Aristotle,

nobody has ever found Aristotle funny

The Jesuits, via Aquinas, continued to hold him in the highest intellectual esteem, and Joyce felt this gave him an edge over anyone without this training.
Carrying this viewpoint into tavern and brothel was a daring and original plan.

Lest bards in the attempt should err
Must here be my interpreter:

I... Must here be my own interpreter

Wherefore receive now from my lip
Peripatetic scholarship.

learned in the world, not in the library

To enter heaven, travel hell,

Blake: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Be piteous or terrible

ie, arouse Aristotle's tragic emotions of pity and fear

One positively needs the ease,
Of plenary indulgences.

(maybe: Catholics believe that relief from punishment for their sins can be won by obedience, with 'plenary' implying complete relief rather than 'partial'. Joyce takes this pseudo-seriously as permitting every sinful experiment???)

For every true-born mysticist
A Dante is, unprejudiced,

(this is how they fancy themselves, anyway?)

Who safe at ingle-nook, by proxy,
Hazards extremes of heterodoxy

i see Yeats and AE dreaming of revolution without daring to actually disturb the universe

(probably 'ingle-nook' is a jab at someone's particular use of that cheap imagery)

Like him who finds a joy at table
Pondering the uncomfortable.

Joyce wouldn't have known that Yeats had been using hashish and mescaline (but probably would have condemned it as a safe substitute for real risk)

Ruling one's life by common sense
How can one fail to be intense?

this paradox seems obviously unconvincing-- common sense is the opposite (cf Blake again)

But I must not accounted be
One of that mumming company —

'mummers' implies actors, here especially the Irish Literary Theatre movement (also, faking their radicalism)

With him who hies him to appease
His giddy dames' frivolities
While they console him when he whinges
With gold-embroidered Celtic fringes —

Yeats was fairly asexual (he lost his virginity at 30) but enviably charming, with loyal supporters like Lady Gregory, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr, and the weird sisters of Dun Emer (who in fact specialised in embroidered Celtic fringes): Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Lily Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson.
Maud Gonne was a raving terrorist by comparison

'hies' is obsolete for 'hurries'

Or him who sober all the day
Mixes a naggin in his play —

Synge uses the word 'naggin' in works published later, in 1905 and 1912

Or him who[se] conduct "seems to own"
His preference for a man of "tone"

Gogarty had written a poem a few months earlier, probably about his sister: "When the sun shines on Mary's hair / The splendour seems to own / That solid rays of sunlight there / Are blended with the brown." JAJ must have judged it weak.

OG's friend-since-1899 Arthur Griffith was a follower of Wolfe Tone. OG would help AG found Sinn Fein in 1905.

but assuming this couplet does means Gogarty, it couldn't have been worse-timed, for he'd just agreed to host Joyce at the Tower for a year, but withdrew the offer when he read these insults

Or him who plays the rugged patch
To millionaires in Hazelhatch
But weeping after holy fast
Confesses all his pagan past —

Padraic Colum the year before had been promised a stipend to write by millionaire Thomas Kelly of Celbridge/Hazelhatch, who'd rejected Joyce's overambitious plan to start a daily newspaper called the Goblin

Or him who will his hat unfix
Neither to malt nor crucifix
But show to all that poor-dressed be
His high Castilian courtesy —

Eglinton/Magee, teetotaler [more]

Joyce's limerick:
There once was a Celtic librarian
Whose essays were voted Spencerian
His name is Magee
But it seems that to me
He's a flavour that's more Presbyterian

Stannie:  "Magee is a dwarfish, brown-clad fellow, with red-brown eyes like a ferret, who walks with his hands in his jacket pockets and as stiffly as if his knees were roped with sugauns. He is sub-librarian in Kildare Street, and I think his mission in Ireland is to prove to his Protestant grandaunts that unbelievers can be very moral and admire the Bible. He is interested in great thoughts and philosophy, whenever he can understand it."

Or him who loves his Master dear —

George Roberts, w/AE

Or him who drinks his pint in fear —

Starkey

Or him who once when snug abed
Saw Jesus Christ without his head
And tried so hard to win for us
The long-lost works of Eschylus.

AE (anticipated Prince by adopting the ligature Æ)

But all these men of whom I speak
Make me the sewer of their clique.
That they may dream their dreamy dreams
I carry off their filthy streams
For I can do those things for them
Through which I lost my diadem,

(skeptics would have asked how he could lose a badge of royalty if he'd never won one)

Those things for which Grandmother Church
Left me severely in the lurch.
Thus I relieve their timid arses,
Perform my office of Katharsis.
My scarlet leaves them white as wool
Through me they purge a bellyful.
To sister mummers one and all
I act as vicar-general



And for each maiden, shy and nervous,
I do a similar kind service.
For I detect without surprise
That shadowy beauty in her eyes,
The "dare not" of sweet maidenhood
That answers my corruptive "would",



Whenever publicly we meet
She never seems to think of it;
At night when close in bed she lies
And feels my hand between her thighs
My little love in light attire
Knows the soft flame that is desire.

Joyce was paid, later in August, for a poem that begins "My love is in a light attire / Among the apple trees". He'd been dating Nora for two months, so this presumably refers to her, alone in bed, remembering his touch and probably masturbating. We have to assume he was throwing all caution to the wind and challenging even those closest to him-- Nora and Gogarty-- to accept his art even when it addressed them personally.

But Mammon places under ban
The uses of Leviathan
And that high spirit ever wars
On Mammon's countless servitors
Nor can they ever be exempt
From his taxation of contempt.
So distantly I turn to view
The shamblings of that motley crew,
Those souls that hate the strength that mine has
Steeled in the school of old Aquinas.
Where they have crouched and crawled and prayed
I stand the self-doomed, unafraid,
Unfellowed, friendless and alone,

JAJ had used the phrase "I am going alone and friendless" in his 1902 letter to Lady Gregory asking for help

Indifferent as the herring-bone,

a very odd metaphor. Joyce had not yet written : "the artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails". Maybe the herringbone that chokes someone to death is indifferent to its victim?

Firm as the mountain-ridges where
I flash my antlers on the air.

'firm' seems a little weak-- wasn't there any other one-syllable synonym? tough? stout? fixed? strong? hale?

already in January he had written "...behind the rapidly indurating shield the sensitive answered. Let the pack of enmities come tumbling and sniffing to the highlands after their game — there was his ground: and he flung them disdain from flashing antlers." [PoA04]

Let them continue as is meet
To adequate the balance-sheet.

uncommonly a verb

Though they may labour to the grave
My spirit shall they never have
Nor make my soul with theirs at one
Till the Mahamanvantara be done:

in Theosophy, 311 trillion years, or about 20,000 times the age of the universe [cite]
Joyce's targets had mostly dabbled with Theosophy, but the reference seems trivial now (and there's an extra syllable!?)

And though they spurn me from their door
My soul shall spurn them evermore.

Gogarty and Joyce

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Page 16 (1.476-512) "All Ireland... snotrag, he said."

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Delaney: [38] Useen: [44] [45] [46] [map] [*]
Delaney: [37]

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— All Ireland is washed by the gulfstream, Stephen said as he let honey trickle over a slice of the loaf.

Europe's climate is comparatively mild because warm water from the Caribbean continually drifts north. [debate]

Joyce free-associates the ocean currents with the honey, making SD a mildly hedonistic Irishman. cf BM's bread: "thickly buttered on both sides"

Haines from the corner where he was knotting easily a scarf about the loose collar of his tennis shirt spoke:
— I intend to make a collection of your sayings if you will let me.

Haines probably means you-the-Irish-people, collectively

1900 tennis shirts

Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. Yet here's a spot.
— That one about the cracked lookingglass of a servant being the symbol of Irish art is deuced good.

"...writ Ayenbite of inwyt." [ms]

'deuced' = euphemism for 'damned'
(Haines assumes he's worthy)

Delaney: [38]

Buck Mulligan kicked Stephen's foot under the table and said with warmth of tone:
— Wait till you hear him on Hamlet, Haines.
— Well, I mean it, Haines said, still speaking to Stephen. I was just thinking of it when that poor old creature came in.
— Would I make money by it? Stephen asked.
Haines laughed and, as he took his soft grey hat from the holdfast of the hammock, said:
— I don't know, I'm sure.
He strolled out to the doorway.

'holdfast' = hook that holds it fast to the wall (so Haines took this hammock last night)
'strolled' = smug colonial tourist, again
Haines must know the answer is 'no'-- there's zero chance SD would make money even from a book of just his own sayings

soft hat = newsboys' cap?

Buck Mulligan bent across to Stephen and said with coarse vigour:
— You put your hoof in it now. What did you say that for?
— Well? Stephen said. The problem is to get money. From whom? From the milkwoman or from him. It's a toss up, I think.
— I blow him out about you, Buck Mulligan said, and then you come along with your lousy leer and your gloomy jesuit jibes.
— I see little hope, Stephen said, from her or from him.

why does this make BM angry, suddenly??? does SD's attitude really surprise/disappoint him? had they teamed up to exploit people together in the past, and now SD has changed direction? maybe because BM didn't really apologise?

BM feels he's wasted his effort, overextended himself

BM's approach is to "play them" (below), conniving, lying, playing a false role, all of which SD has forsworn for the sake of his Art...?

Buck Mulligan sighed tragically and laid his hand on Stephen's arm.
— From me, Kinch, he said.
In a suddenly changed tone he added:
— To tell you the God's truth I think you're right. Damn all else they are good for. Why don't you play them as I do? To hell with them all. Let us get out of the kip.
He stood up, gravely ungirdled and disrobed himself of his gown, saying resignedly:
— Mulligan is stripped of his garments.
He emptied his pockets onto the table.
— There's your snotrag, he said.

"the kip" = working for others?

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Prices in 1904 Dublin

the 1904 conversion rate was one pound = US$5.00 (equals 25 French francs = 25 Austrian crowns = 15-20? Italian lira)

with inflation, US1904 $5 has become US2014 $130 (US1922 $10)

one guinea = one pound plus one shilling = 21 shillings
one pound = 20 shillings = 240 pence
one crown = 5 shillings = 60 pence
one florin = two shillings = 24 pence
one shilling = one bob = one bar = 12 pence
one tanner = 6 pence
so a shilling then bought about as much as $6.50 does now

table of 1911 diets among Dublin's poor

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wages
twopence: a shave
threepence: dock porter at Newhaven
1/0: cheap whore
1/6: dental extraction; watch cleaning
2/0: mend broken statue; English lesson in Paris
3/0: HELY's men, per day (all or one???)
3/4: average Parisian workman
7/0: Eveline's weekly wages at the Stores
10/0: year's maintenance on grave; Bella's whores
12/6: Milly's weekly pay as photo girl
13/9: Irish Times payment for racer interview
15/0: Dublin clerk per week
18/0: Ormond barmaid's weekly pay
1/0/0: one month's wages for deck boy
1/0/0: Homestead payment for stories
1/1/0: Titbits payment per column; gyn exam
1/4/0: dockworker per 60-hour week
1/13/4: Stannie's starting weekly pay with Trieste Berlitz
1/15: James Berlitz pay in 1905
2/0/0: typical ad commission for Bloom
2/12/0: good Paris cook, per month
3/12/0: what Deasy pays Stephen (monthly or biweekly?)
5/5/0: Rumbold's charge for hanging
6/0/0: 19yo Picasso's monthly contract with Manyac, Paris 1900
6/0/0: yearly wage for maid?; monthly wage for valet
7/10/0: monthly wage from Berlitz
12/0/0: Fortnightly Review payment for Ibsen review
12/10/0: monthly wage at Roman bank? (250 lira)
50/0/0: organist, per year
150/0/0: yearly salary at Rome bank [L2-140]
150/0/0: customs official Michael Healy per year

assuming a six day week:
Driscoll: 1/8 (hard to imagine but '1900 House' agrees)
deck boy: 5/0
Eveline = 7/0
Milly = 12/6
Paris cook: 13/0
Dublin clerk: 15/0
HELY's = 18/0
barmaid = 18/0
organist = 19/3
dockworker = 24/0
valet, Picasso = 30/0
Stannie = 33/4
James = 35/0
Berlitz = 37/6
Rome bank = 62/6?
Stephen = 18/0 or 36/0
Clearly, Corley thinks Deasy's job is above him, and sandwichman is beneath him, so on this basis 36/0 seems more likely (SD has a degree, after all)

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coinage
gold one pound = sovereign
gold half-pound = half-sovereign
silver five shilling = crown
silver 2/6 = half-crown
copper 2/0 = florin
silver shilling
silver sixpence = tanner
silver fourpence = groat or joey
silver threepence
bronze penny = wing
bronze halfpenny = make
bronze 1/4 penny = farthing
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Examples

a halfpenny(US2014 $0.27)
cheap novels for boys [Dubliners] [Encounter]
Dublin Evening Mail [J&M- Painful Case]

a penny(US2014 $0.54)
four bootlaces 6.231 [Hades]
eight plums 6.294 [Hades]
"Burial friendly society pays. Penny a week for a sod of turf." 6.328 [Hades]
Dublin Penny Journal 7.964 [Eolus] (also Daily Express, Irish Times [J&K])
two apples 8.68 [Lestryg]
two Banbury cakes 8.74 [Lestryg]
local tramfare (not including suburbs) 10.138 [WRocks]
Molly's alms to sailor 10.253 [WRocks]
2ndhand French primer 10.863 [WRocks]
two "Friday herrings" 16.274 [Eumeus]
Freeman's Journal 17.1459 [Ithaca]
tramfare to Dignam's 17.1461 [Ithaca]
1 Cake Fry's Plain Chocolate 17.1472 [Ithaca] [Kidd]
postage stamp 17.1814 [Ithaca]
ginger beer [Dubliners] [Gallants]
half-pint glass of porter [J&M- Counterparts]
a handsel of blue flowers [Portrait V] [PoA5]
three pounds potatoes [Gifford]
a mackerel or two [Mikhail p24]
'penny dreadful' cheap novels

a penny and a half(US2014 $0.81)
Lenehan's plate of hot grocer's peas [Dubliners] [Gallants]

twopence(US2014 $1.08)
pint of milk (delivered) 1.443 [Telemachus]
pint of porter 5.308 [Lotus]
"a shave for the funeral" 10.698 [WRocks]
2ndhand books 10.837 [WRocks]
cigar 12.682 [Cyclops]
pianola tune 15.4016 [Circe]
coffee at cabmen's shelter 16.1698 [Eumeus]
confectionery at cabmen's shelter 16.1699 [Eumeus]
adult admission to waxworks 17.579 [Ithaca]
Packet notepaper and envelopes 17.1466 [Ithaca]
one pound oatmeal [Gifford]

threepence(US2014 $1.62)
dock porter at Newhaven 3.195 [Proteus]
pork kidney at Dlugacz's 4.180 [Calypso]
admission to Nelson's pillar 7.943 [Eolus]
1 lb. of sugar "crushed crystal" 12.40 [Cyclops]
cold sheep's trotter 15.669 [Circe]
selling price of pile of old magazines 18.603 [Penelope]
packet of Players cigarettes [ad]

fourpence (groat)(US2014 $2.17)
mou en civet (lung stew) 3.178 [Proteus]
lemon soap 5.513 [Lotus]
suborning a telegram boy 14.1516 [Oxen]
pig's foot 17.1470 [Ithaca]
1 Square Soda Bread 17.1473 [Ithaca]
methylated spirit 18.6 [Penelope]
round-trip from Amiens to Araby bazaar [Dubliners] [Araby]
vegetable marrows [ad]
glass of Butler's 20/malt [cite]

sixpence(US2014 $3.25)
lunch special at Rowe's 8.368 [Lestryg]
Boylan's tip to Bloom 15.3763 [Circe]
bed at dosshouse 16.167 [Eumeus]
raffle ticket 17.1791 [Ithaca]
each boy's miching-fund (forfeited by Dillon) [Dubliners] [Encounter]
cheap entrance at Araby bazaar [Dubliners] [Araby]
Gaelic League button [J&M- Ivy Day]
box of 10 cigarettes [ad]
four pound loaf of bread [Gifford]
27-word prepaid notice in Evening Telegraph [cite]
144 Ordinary Blaud's Pills [cite]
box of Mr Nolan's Ointment [cite]
admission to Walter George's Light Opera [cite]

six and a half pence(US2014 $3.52)
uniform price for everything at James' emporium 17.578 [Ithaca]

sevenpence(US2014 $3.79)
lunch at Byrne's (cheese sandwich, burgundy) 8.776 [Lestryg], 17.1464 [Ithaca]
pound of bacon [Gifford]

eightpence(US2014 $4.33)
lunch special at Burton's 8.369 [Lestryg]
fairy cakes, per pound 18.1555 [Penelope]

ninepence halfpenny(US2014 $5.14)
French franc = 100 centimes

elevenpence(US2014 $5.96)
pound of cherry cakes 18.1555 [Penelope]

one shilling(US2014 $6.50)
bottle of stout at respectable shebeen 15.611 [Circe]
Bloom's donation for the broken lampchimney 15.4312 [Circe]
bed at Brazen Head 16.170 [Eumeus]
renewal fee for book 17.1465 [Ithaca]
admission to 1894 Araby bazaar [Dubliners] [Araby]
cheap Paris dinner in 1902 (soup, fish, meat, vegetables, dessert, coffee)
144 Blaud's Blood Beans for Blood and Nerves [cite]
a cheap new umbrella [J&M]
a fresh Sandycove lobster [Mikhail p24]

one shilling and a penny(US2014 $7.04)
56 Beecham's Pills [cite]
small bottle Mother Seigel's Syrup [cite]

one and four(US2014 $8.67)
vestals' brawn 7.939 [Eolus]

one and six(US2014 $9.75)
Bath and Gratification 17.1460 [Ithaca]
dental extraction with cocaine [ad] ditto
watch cleaning [cite]

one and eight(US2014 $10.83)
dozen Guinness's Pure XX [cite]
Mr Douce's English lessons in 1903 Paris (2 francs)

one and nine(US2014 $11.37)
dinner at Ormond (liver and bacon w/cider) 11.1002 [Sirens]
dozen sheets fine wallpaper 8.170 [Lestryg] and 15.914 [Circe]

two shillings (florin)(US2014 $13.00)
what Stephen owes Fred Ryan 2.256 [Nestor]
Dodd's reward 6.286 [Hades]
Bloom's bargain on astronomy book 10.526 [WRocks]
admission to Bennett-Keogh fight 10.1136 [WRocks]
LB's extra payment to Meath street whore 13.871 [Nausikaa]
lascar's pigfoot? 15.964 [Circe]
bid for Bloom 15.3093 [Circe]
one pound Anne Lynch tea 17.308 [Ithaca]
dinner and Gratification at Ormond 17.1467 [Ithaca] (cf 11.1002 above plus tips)
broken statue "mend so that you cant see the join" 18.1016 [Penelope]
narrator's Araby-fund [Dubliners] [Araby]
one night at Royal Exchange Hotel [J&M- Ivy Day]
five-course dinner at Mrs Barry's hotel [J&M- Ivy Day]
best seats at August 1904 Gaelic concert where Joyce sang with M'Cormack (often 3s) [J&M- A Mother]
Mr Douce's English lessons in 1903 Paris
'copious dinner with wine' in Paris (2.5 francs)

two and a penny(US2014 $13.54)
"seven fingers" of silk 13.161 [Nausikaa]
drinks in Oxen coda (5 Bass, 4 Guinness, and an absinthe?) 14.1502 [Oxen]

two and four(US2014 $14.67)
Maria's lost plumcake [Dubliners] [Clay]

two and six (half-crown)(US2014 $16.25)
fare to Mullingar 4.452 [Calypso]
gift to Martha 11.868 [Sirens]
Terry's bet on Zinfandel 12.1224 [Cyclops]
Stephen's loan to Corley 16.195 [Eumeus]
a dozen oysters? 18.63 [Penelope]
dental filling [ad] ditto
45-word announcement (birth, marriage, death) in Evening Telegraph [cite]
Cuticura ointment [cite]
Dr Howell's pills for red noses [J&M]

two and nine(US2014 $17.86)
Molly's lotion 5.507 [Lotus]
a yard of black satin for barmaids' blouses 11.110 (also 2/7) [Sirens]

three shillings(US2014 $19.50)
"few bob a skull" donations for Dignams 6.565 [Hades]
Bloom's loan to Hynes 7.119 [Eolus]
daily wages for (all five?) HELY's men 8.128 [Lestryg]
1 lb of tea "first choice tea" 12.38 [Cyclops] (also Dubliners) [Dead]
selling price for bits of hanging rope 12.445 [Cyclops]
"Ladies' grey flannelette bloomers" 13.1235 [Nausikaa]
bottle of hair restorer [ad]

three shillings sixpence(US2014 $22.75)
Dublin tax Joyce refused to pay in 1904 (Ellmann 424)
Maunsel's first edition of Dubliners (15 June 1914)
alarm clock, 4 inch dial, nickel case [cite]
microscope [cite]

three and tenpence(US2014 $24.92)
vestals' savings 7.932 [Eolus]

three and eleven(US2014 $25.46)
Gerty's stockings 13.499 [Nausikaa]

four shillings(US2014 $26.00)
gents' goloshes [J&K- The Dead]
alarm clock bought by Joyce in Paris, Dec 1902

four and eleven(US2014 $31.96)
Gerty's green pettiwidth knickers 13.725 [Nausikaa]
Kearney's Popular Melodeons, 4s 11d [cite]

five shillings(US2014 $32.50)
Bantam Lyons's bet 8.1016 [Lestryg]
Bloom's donation to Dignams 10.974 [WRocks]
unattainable alimony from Molly 15.3477 [Circe]
Molly's picnic plan, per person 18.946 [Penelope]
Richards' proposed price for 1906 edition of Dubliners
painless dental extraction by gas [cite]

five and six(US2014 $35.75)
"fare to Mullingar" 16.508 [Eumeus] (??? cf 4.452 above)
a cheap white shirt [J&M- After the Race]

five and eight(US2014 $36.83)
Maria's savings for the party-expedition [Dubliners] [Clay]

six shillings(US2014 $39.00)
2ndhand melodeon 11.1263 [Sirens]
four handkerchiefs plus garters? plus ?? 18.466 [Penelope]
Farrington's gains from pawning his watch [Dubliners] [Counterparts]

six and sixpence(US2014 $42.25)
52 weekly issues of Irish Homestead [cite]

six and eightpence(US2014 $43.33)
cliche based on cost of burying executed man?560 [Hades]

six and nine(US2014 $43.88)
Kearney's Pearl Melodeons [cite]

seven shillings(US2014 $45.50)
Eveline's weekly wages at the Stores [Dubliners] [Eveline]

seven and six(three half-crowns, US2014 $48.75)
50 meals in worst cookbook 15.1579 [Circe]
Wonderworker 17.1829 [Ithaca]
set of chessmen [Byrne's Silent Years]

eight and six(US2014 $55.25)
Harris tweed cap 17.1582 [Ithaca]
yachting cap [J&M- Two Gallants]
fee offered to gang of assassins by Aleister Crowley (each) to kill Yeats [1900]

nine shillings(US2014 $58.50)
Kearney's Universal Melodeons [cite]

ten shillings (half pound)(US2014 $65)
what Stephen owes Cousins 2.257 [Nestor]
gardener for Rudolph's grave, per year 6.934 [Hades]
Kernan's stylish 2ndhand coat 10.744 [WRocks]
Bloom's usual daily budget? [Sirens]
selling price of Molly's hair combings 13.840 [Nausikaa]
15yo virgin on Mabbot street 15.359 [Circe]
short time with Bella's whore 15.1986 [Circe]
Rumbold's discounted price? 15.4555 [Circe]
1st prize in Shamrock poetry contest, 1877 17.394 [Ithaca]
daily charge for tourists in Bloom's fantasy 17.1723 [Ithaca]
Simon's parting gift to 6yo Stephen [Portrait I] [PoA1]
AE's contribution to JAJ (and Nora's) elopement

ten and sixpence (half guinea, half sovereign)(US2014 $68.25)
what Stephen owes Bob Reynolds 2.257 [Nestor]
"brass fender" 15.3191 [Circe]
what Corley finagles out of the slavey (maybe a full sovereign) [Dubliners] [Gallants]
cheap dentures [cite]
cheap 'Gladiator' boots [cite]
Double Opera and Field Glasses or Powerful Pocket Telescope [cite]
cheap fountain pen [J&M- The Dead]

ten and elevenpence(US2014 $70.96)
pale blue summer blouse (Little Chandler's gift to Annie) [Dubliners] [LittleCloud]

eleven shillings(US2014 $71.50)
Kino's trousers 8.91 [Lestryg]
Mesias alteration 15.1911 [Circe]

eleven and six(US2014 $74.75)
corset 18.449 [Penelope]

twelve shillings(US2014 $78)
one week's room and board at Kerry Hotel [cite]

twelve and six(US2014 $81.25)
Milly's weekly pay in Mullingar 4.425 [Calypso]

thirteen and nine(US2014 $89.38)
Joyce's payment from Irish Times for 1903 Fournier interview

fourteen shillings(US2014 $91)
Kearney's Mandoline, with case [cite]

fifteen shillings(US2014 $97.50)
men's Sandow-Whiteley's pulley exerciser (athlete's 20/-) 17.1817 [Ithaca]
one week room and board at Mrs Mooney's [Dubliners] [Boarding]
Gabriel's pay for literary column in Daily Express [Dubliners] [Dead]
Stannie's potential weekly earnings as Dublin clerk [e211]
Kearney's Acme Melodeons [cite]

eighteen shillings(US2014 $117)
barmaid's weekly pay 11.1076 [Sirens]

eighteen and six(US2014 $120.25)
peachblossom dressing gown 18.1497 [Penelope]

nineteen and eleven(US2014 $129.46)
velours hat 15.550 [Circe]

one pound(US2014 $130)
monthly rent of Tower 1.539 [Telemachus]
Menton's donation to Dignams 5.569 [Lotus]
Canada swindle advertised price 12.1088 [Cyclops]
Molly's value as whore? 13.842 [Nausikaa]
wet nurse, per week? 18.572 [Penelope]
one month's wages for deck boy [Dubliners] [Eveline]
AE's payment to JAJ for first Dubliners stories
one ton Blainscough King Coal [cite]

twentyone shillings (a guinea)(US2014 $136.50)
what Stephen owes McCann 2.256 and Russell 2.257 [Nestor]
a column of text in Titbits 4.503 [Calypso]
box of "Pills, pounded bread" 11.616 [Sirens]
a ton of "best Abram coal" 17.129 [Ithaca]
Dr Collins gynecological exam 18.1169 [Penelope]
Simon's Xmas turkey [Portrait I] [PoA1]
cheap wedding rings [ad]
a very expensive umbrella [J&M]

twentytwo and six(US2014 $146.25)
King Mark's trousers [T&I]

twentyfour shillings(US2014 $156)
one gallon John Jameson & Sons [cite]
wages for 60-hour week of dockworker [J&M- Painful Case]

one pound five(US2014 $162.50)
expensive fountain pen [J&M- The Dead]

one pound five and six(US2014 $165.75)
Geraghty's debt to Herzog 12.41 [Cyclops]

one pound six and six(US2014 $172.25)
a cheap pocketwatch [J&M- Counterparts]

one pound seven(US2014 $175.50)
money Bloom returns to Stephen 17.958 [Ithaca]
fare from Dublin to Oxford offered to JAJ by Gogarty in 1904 in order "to get dhrunk, dhrunk"

one pound seven and six(US2014 $178.75)
Boylan's message to Miss Dunne 10.391 [WRocks]
Bloom's commission from Freeman 17.1459 [Ithaca]
secondhand Singer foot sewing machine [cite]

one pound ten(US2014 $195)
Molly's imagined charge to Bloom 18.1523 [Penelope]

one pound thirteen and four(US2014 $216.65)
Stannie's weekly pay at Trieste Berlitz, 1905 [e213]

one pound fifteen(US2014 $227.50)
room in Paris for three months
James's weekly pay at Trieste Berlitz, 1905 [e213] tent for camping out [cite]
Stevens American Single Breechloader (gun) [cite]

two pounds(US2014 $260)
Boylan's bet on Sceptre 12.1222 [Cyclops]
dentures with gold or platinum [cite]

two guineas(US2014 $273)
nice curtains 10.648 [WRocks]
race, field, and opera glasses with great range, very portable, in sling case [cite]

two pounds five(US2014 $292.50)
cost to print 85 copies of "Day of the Rabblement" [e89]
steamer to USA [ad]

two pounds eight(US2014 $312)
LB's potential commission on Keyes' ad 8.1056 [Lestryg]

two pounds fifteen(US2014 $357.50)
LB's potential commission on Prescott's ad 8.1059 [Lestryg]

three pounds(US2014 $390)
secondhand Centaur bicycle [cite]

three guineas(US2014 $409.50)
what Stephen owes Koehler 2.258 [Nestor]
trip to London 16.508 [Eumeus]

three and five(US2014 $422.50)
Carr's 1918 demand for 'costume' trousers (150 francs)

three twelve(US2014 $468)
Stephen's pay 2.221 [Nestor]

three pounds thirteen and six(US2014 $477.75)
Beaufoy's calculated payment from Titbits 4.505 [Calypso]

four pounds(US2014 $520)
what Mulligan thinks Stephen makes 1.293 [Telemachus]
Agendath Netaim, eighty German marks 4.195 [Calypso]

five pounds(US2014 $650)
Bloom's welfare plan, per newborn 8.384 [Lestryg]
Molly's imagined reward for Bloom's return 17.2001 [Ithaca]
Lady Gregory's contribution to JAJ (and Nora's) elopement

five guineas(US2014 $682.50)
Rumbold's fee for hanging 12.428 [Cyclops]

five pounds six(US2014 $689)
Joyce's monthly budget in Paris, March 1903

six pounds(US2014 $780)
Mary Driscoll's yearly wage 15.868 [Circe]
monthly wage of "gentleman's valet"? 16.655 [Eumeus]
round trip to Norway [ad]

six guineas(US2014 $819)
opera glasses with "Goerz lenses" 8.553 [Lestryg]

seven pounds(US2014 $910)
First Grade Freewheel Cycles (shop soiled) [cite]

seven pounds ten(US2014 $975)
monthly wage from Paris Berlitz, 1903

eight pounds one(US2014 $1046.50)
Joyce's monthly expenses in Paris, March 1903

eight guineas(US2014 $1092)
Kathleen Kearney's promised fee to accompany four concerts [Dubliners] [Mother]

eight pounds ten(US2014 $1105)
fare Dublin-to-Zurich for two with trunk

nine pounds(US2014 $1170)
what Stephen owes Mulligan 2.255 [Nestor]
cheap couch, two easy chairs, and four small chairs [J&M- Little Cloud]

ten guineas(US2014 $1365)
what Stephen owes Curran 2.256 [Nestor]
Joyce's yearly fees for University [pc172]

twelve pounds(US2014 $1560)
Joyce's payment for Ibsen review, 1900

fifteen pounds (US2014 $1950)
50 US colleges paid this fee (each) for Yeats' 1904 lecture tour [rff305]

fifteen guineas(US2014 $2047.50)
featherweight bicycle [cite]

eighteen pounds(US2014 $2340)
gold-embroidered vestments for high mass [J&M]

eighteen fourteen and six(US2014 $2434.25)
Bloom's bank balance 17.1863 [Ithaca]

twenty pounds(US2014 $2600)
vacation for two in Athens 1.43 [Telemachus]
what Boylan told Molly he bet 18.424 [Penelope]
Joyce's 1894 exam prize

twenty guineas(US2014 $2730)
the mantle Stephen wants to buy his mother [Portrait II] [PoA2]

25 pounds(US2014 $3250)
James' first-year fee at Clongowes, discounted from 45 guineas [e27]

27 pounds(US2014 $3510)
Cuffe's springers 6.393 [Hades]

28 pounds(US2014 $3640)
valuation of #80 Eccles 4.236 [Calypso]
yearly rent on #7 Eccles

30 pounds(US2014 $3900)
Joyce's 1897 exam prize

35 pounds(US2014 $4550)
Joyce's 1898 exam prize (33 in Portrait II) [PoA2]

36 pounds(US2014 $4680)
Bloom's yearly income (4%) from his Canadian stock 17.1484 [Ithaca] [Gifford]

42 pounds(US2014 $5460)
valuation of Bloom Cottage 17.1501 [Ithaca]

fortyfive guineas(US2014 $6142.50)
non-discounted year at Clongowes [e27]

fifty pounds(US2014 $6500)
Glynn the organist's yearly wage 5.396 [Lotus]
purse of Bennett-Keogh match 10.1134 [WRocks]
an expensive gold watch [J&M- Little Cloud]

sixtyfive guineas(US2014 $8872.50)
Dolmetsch lute 16.1766 [Eumeus]

seventy pounds(US2014 $9100)
John Joyce's yearly pension

100 pounds(US2014 $13,000)
bid for Bloom 15.3111 [Circe]
Gumley's yearly income, before he squandered it 16.950 [Eumeus]
Kathleen Kearney's dowry [Dubliners] [Mother]
a cottage in Dalkey [J&M- A Mother]

132 pounds 2/10(US2014 $17,192.50)
John Joyce's pension as of 1893

150 pounds(US2014 $19,500)
"lovely old organ" 6.610 [Hades]
yearly income of Nora's uncle Michael Healy
yearly 'rate' of Antient Concert Rooms [J&M- A Mother]

190 pounds(US2014 $24,700)
Rosenbach's steal on Ulysses manuscript (US1924 $1975)

210 pounds(US2014 $27,300)
Eccles rental (£28) plus 365 times Bloom's apparent daily budget (10/0) [Sirens] equals minimum yearly budget? (not counting Molly's and Milly's allowances)

280 pounds(US2014 $36,400)
a new redbrick house in Fairview [J&M- Eveline]

300 pounds(US2014 $39,000)
yearly welfare in Bloom's scheme 16.1135 [Eumeus]

500 pounds(US2014 $65,000)
damages for shock 15.647 [Circe]
Bloom's life insurance 17.1856 [Ithaca]
John S Joyce's original yearly income, inherited 1881

600 pounds(US2014 $78,000)
yearly 'rate' of Brown Thomas's [J&M- A Mother]

665 pounds 9 shillings(US2014 $86,547.50)
John S Joyce's 1932 effects [e644]

900 pounds(US2014 $117,000)
Bloom's Canadian gov't stock 17.1864 [Ithaca]

1000 pounds(US2014 $130,000)
a year = blessing 12.1752 [Cyclops]
reward for Jack the Ripper 15.1154 [Circe]
deposit (against potential lawsuits) demanded of JAJ by Maunsel for publication of Dubliners (waived?)

1875 pounds(US2014 $243,750)
John Joyce's 1894 sale of Cork properties

3650 pounds(US2014 $474,500)
salary of Lord Mayor [J&M- Ivy Day]

4000 pounds(US2014 $520,000)
Throwaway's prize 16.1277 [Eumeus]

10,000 pounds(US2014 $1,300,000)
Breen's u-p-up libel suit 8.263 [Lestryg]
Dollard's business failure 11.1014 [Sirens]
Edward Martyn's endowment for all-male choir [J&K- The Dead]

50,000 pounds(US2014 $6,500,000)
Mickey Hanlon's fishery wealth 8.895 [Lestryg]

1,000,000 pounds(US2014 $130,000,000)
prize for squaring circle 17.1697 [Ithaca]

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Sources:[J&M] Jackson and McGinley's illustrated annotated Dubliners

Page 15 (1.437-475) "No, thank... month."

editions: [1922] [html] [arch] [$2] [$4]
notes: [Th] [G&S] [Dent] [wbks] [rw] [images] [hyper]
Delaney: [36] [37] Useen: [41] [42] [43] [map] [*]
Delaney: [35]

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— No, thank you, sir, the old woman said, slipping the ring of the milkcan on her forearm and about to go.

Delaney: [36]

Haines said to her:
— Have you your bill? We had better pay her, Mulligan, hadn't we?

Haines imposes stricter (more humorless) ethics


Stephen filled again the three cups.
— Bill, sir? she said, halting. Well, it's seven mornings a pint at twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling. That's a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.

She keeps it in her head, maybe illiterate but intelligent

June 7-13, one pint ($1.08 now) = 7*2p = 14p = 1s/2p
June 14-16, one quart = 3*4p = 12p = 1s
one or two of them have only been there three days


Buck Mulligan sighed and, having filled his mouth with a crust thickly buttered on both sides, stretched forth his legs and began to search his trouser pockets.
— Pay up and look pleasant, Haines said to him smiling.

smug smile
the saying 'Pay up and look pleasant' goes back to 1874


Stephen filled a third cup, a spoonful of tea colouring faintly the thick rich milk.

(Has SD added the spoon of tea to his milk? After two cups, there shouldn't be anywhere near a residual spoonful)
this anticipates the gulfstream/honey on p16


Buck Mulligan brought up a florin, twisted it round in his fingers and cried:
— A miracle!

copper, larger than our quarter, worth two shillings, $13 now

He passed it along the table towards the old woman, saying:
— Ask nothing more of me, sweet.
     All I can give you I give.

Swinburne's Oblation (many musical settings) sheetmusic

There's no hint BM is singing, but this setting by Marzials was probably known to him:



Stephen laid the coin in her uneager hand.

1908 notebook: "Gogarty: His money smells bad." (even to her?!?)


— We'll owe twopence, he said.
— Time enough, sir, she said, taking the coin. Time enough. Good morning, sir.
She curtseyed and went out, followed by Buck Mulligan's tender chant:
— Heart of my heart, were it more,
     More would be laid at your feet.
He turned to Stephen and said:
— Seriously, Dedalus. I'm stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money. Today the bards must drink and junket. Ireland expects that every man this day will do his duty.

stony broke
[♬ England expects that every man this day will do his duty]


— That reminds me, Haines said, rising, that I have to visit your national library today.

(is it significant that Ireland had a national library before it won independence?)

Delaney: [37]

— Our swim first, Buck Mulligan said.
He turned to Stephen and asked blandly:
— Is this the day for your monthly wash, Kinch?
Then he said to Haines:
— The unclean bard makes a point of washing once a month.

Joyce was notably unwashed in those days. (At Belvedere he'd been an enthusiastic swimmer.)

>

mysteries:


[DD 01:50-03:47]
[DD 00:00-01:01]


[IM 34:27-36:57]

[LV1 36:04-38:58]

[LV2 03:18-05:05]


telemachus: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Clocktime in Ulysses

[cite]

sunrise around 4:00am

8:00am
ch1/4
mailboat 8:15

9:00am
ch2/5

10:00am: page 26, hockey

"Stephen would have gotten off the train at Landsdowne road station at approximately 10:32. He would then have walked down Landsdowne road, over the bridge at the Dodder, passed down Newbridge avenue, passing the house of mourning (the funeral carriage having not yet arrived), crossed Tritonville road and gone down Leahy's terrace to the strand, arriving there at 10:40. As it would have taken about ten minutes to get off the beach [east beyond the pumping station on Pigeonhouse road] and back to [just northwest of Watery lane on the route of the funeral procession] this situation leaves only twenty minutes for the action of "Proteus." Tight, but feasible, providing Stephen was a brisk walker." (329-30). James Joyce's Dublin 28-29.

ch3/6

At 16.450, DB Murphy will claim his ship arrived at 11am, seen also by SD:  -- We come up this morning eleven o'clock. The threemaster Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks. I shipped to get over. Paid off this afternoon. There's my discharge. See? D.B. Murphy, A.B.S.

11:00am
funeral
11:10am p86 "Are we late? Mr Power asked. Ten minutes, Martin Cunningham said, looking at his watch."
11:20am p90: "Twenty past eleven. Up. Mrs Fleming is in to clean."

12:00noon


1:00pm

"After one. Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." p147
"Now that I come to think of it, that ball falls at Greenwich time." p159 (so, after 12:35 or 1:35?)

1:55pm "Two. Pub clock five minutes fast." p164
2:00pm


3:00pm
ch10

4:00pm


5:00pm


6:00pm


7:00pm


8:00pm


9:00pm


10:00pm


11:00pm


12:00midnight


1:00am


2:00am


3:00am

Bloomsday, 16 June 1904

Telegraph [pdf] [cite] (not sure of abbrevs, or accuracy)
Twi A: light
Twilight N: 2:31am
Twilight: 4:04am
Sunrise: 4:56am
Solar noon: 1:25pm
Sunset: 9:55pm
Twi: 10:47pm
Twi N: 12:19am
Twi A: light
Moonrise: 8:08am [moonphase just past New]
Moonset: 11:41pm
Day length: 16h 58m

sunrise:0355 sunset:2056?

sunrise:0331 sunset:2030? 

high tide 12:42pm 12:37?

1901 census

St John Francis Regis's saint day

hurricane in Caribbean [14 Jun]

Hansard speeches

Spectator

NY Evening World

[Delaney]

Joyce had written his poem "The Holy Office" by August 8