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Delaney: [5]
He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages. A pleasant smile broke quietly over his lips. "his watcher" (SD equal or superior to BM?)
"shadowed... sullen"
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| prelate, patron of arts |
— The mockery of it! he said gaily. Your absurd name, an ancient Greek!
He pointed his finger in friendly jest and went over to the parapet, laughing to himself. Stephen Dedalus stepped up, followed him wearily halfway and sat down on the edge of the gunrest, watching him still as he propped his mirror on the parapet, dipped the brush in the bowl and lathered cheeks and neck.
Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on.
"absurd name" = Dedalus (not Stephen) (Gogarty might have learned of the 'Daedalus' pseudonym as early as Feb 1904)
"pleasant smile... friendly jest... gay smile... laughing with delight... my love... with care... warily... frowned"
Gogarty's shavingbrush was ivory and gold ('chryselephantine'), later stolen by Trench ('Haines'):
— My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it? Tripping and sunny like the buck himself. We must go to Athens. Will you come if I can get the aunt to fork out twenty quid?
He laid the brush aside and, laughing with delight, cried:
— Will he come? The jejune jesuit!
Ceasing, he began to shave with care.
('Hellenic' is not a dactyl: helLENic not HELlenic)
"the buck himself" (BM speaks of himself in 3rd person)
"the aunt" [article] argues unconvincingly this must be aunt Annie, but an alternative is that BM calls his mother 'the aunt'
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| aunt Annie |
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| Mrs Gogarty |
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| 45yo in 1901 |
"jejune" from Latin for 'hungry', but also self-sacrificing/ascetic/holy, so disinclined to partying (the word is notable for not sounding like its meaning)
"Ceasing" (ceasing laughing?)
— Tell me, Mulligan, Stephen said quietly.
— Yes, my love?
— How long is Haines going to stay in this tower?
Delaney: [6]
Buck Mulligan showed a shaven cheek over his right shoulder. — God, isn't he dreadful? he said frankly. A ponderous Saxon. He thinks you're not a gentleman. God, these bloody English! Bursting with money and indigestion. Because he comes from Oxford. You know, Dedalus, you have the real Oxford manner. He can't make you out. O, my name for you is the best: Kinch, the knifeblade.
He shaved warily over his chin.
'Stephen Dedalus' gets shortened to 'Stephen' long before 'Buck Mulligan' gets shortened to 'Mulligan' (p13)
"in this tower" (has Haines perhaps visited other Martello towers? ...No, the name Martello is new to him: p17 below)
"dreadful" BM hides this view from Haines
'bursting with indignation' is a phrase
if SD does have "the real Oxford manner" then Haines must be responding to titles more than vibes
cf OG in 1938: "James Joyce was not a gentleman"
— He was raving all night about a black panther, Stephen said. Where is his guncase?
— A woful lunatic! Mulligan said. Were you in a funk?
— I was, Stephen said with energy and growing fear. Out here in the dark with a man I don't know raving and moaning to himself about shooting a black panther. You saved men from drowning. I'm not a hero, however. If he stays on here I am off.
Delaney: [7]
Buck Mulligan frowned at the lather on his razorblade. He hopped down from his perch and began to search his trouser pockets hastily. the spelling 'woful' was more common than 'woeful' pre-1900
the narration switches momentarily from the name "Buck Mulligan" to just "Mulligan"
"in a funk" literally 'in a panic' (this meaning since lost?)
"with energy and growing fear" = SD's so sensitive he's practically got PTSD (he looks to BM for protection)
the FW thunderwords suggest JAJ's vulnerability to loud noises (most accounts claim OG fired a gun to tease JAJ)
(is SD implying that BM didn't sleep there... has just arrived back from town? or maybe slept on the roof? or in a separate room?)
mysteries: aunt or mother?
[DD 02:43-03:35]
[DD 00:00-02:11]
[IM 02:28-05:22]
[LV1 03:59-06:58]
[LV2 02:13-04:30]
telemachus: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
blue book (1st ed blue cover, obscene)
up (Ulysses+Penelope, Breen's postcard)
an open book
performing arts/ theatrical (fiction)
milky way (macrocosm) a universe
bento box (squeezed neatly into) 
tear-off calendar (microcosm) one day
one man (Odysseus/Bloom)
many trials (splashing sweat)
open lock (solves puzzles) unlocked
a sunny day (sun with face)
sun in Gemini (June)
new moon 
clock face eight-thirty
clover
island nation
castle (Tower)
top (of castle)
imp (Buck Mulligan)
kimono (yellow silk dressinggown)
jeans (pants, implied not mentioned)
haircut/ barbering (shave)
steaming bowl (lather)
hocho (blade) 
optical disc (mirror)
speech balloon (monolog-patter)
smirking face (arch-mocker)
dancer (performing/miming)
folded hands (prayer/priest)
sleepy
sad (frowning)
unamused
equine
soldier
musical score (conductor)
microphone (barker)
circus tent (girly show)
face with medical mask (doctor)
kissing face with smiling eyes (whistles)
soon with rightwards arrow above (waits for reply)
ship
leftwards arrow with hook (back)
mouth
gem stone (gold tooth)
sparkles
older man (old chap)
mobile phone off (switch off current) 
eyes
examine critically
money bag (wealthy patron) 
goat (buck)
white right pointing backhand index
face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes
Greek flag
pound
two men holding hands (SD and BM)
sos (SD asks help)
hotel (hospitality)
bust in silhouette, guest account (Haines)
graduation cap (Oxford manner)
grimacing face (sneers at SD)
night with stars
sleeping symbol
ghost (dream)
leopard (black panther) 
pistol
face screaming in fear 
swimmer (Mulligan) 
flexed biceps (brave?)
pile of poo (Scutter)
nose
scroll (rag)
waving white flag (rag) 
face massage 
put litter in its place
artist palette (artcolour) 
wind blowing face
water wave (sea)
honey pot (sweet) 
older woman (mother)
closed book 
abcd (teach)
hammer (attack, kill dead)
skull (dead)
collision symbol
lovely 
mummer 
pot of food, stew 
broken heart
smiling face with halo
registered sign (my)
mans shoe (breeks)
black_square_button (vote yes or no?)
black question mark ornament 
squared free 
clapping hands sign
like a princess 
hundred points symbol
circled ideograph congratulation
thumbs down sign
negative_squared_cross_mark
bell with cancellation stroke 
black_joker (disrespectful?)
person bowing deeply
hospital
extraterrestrial alien (looney bin)
leftwards black arrow (reverse)
person raising both hands in celebration
globe with meridians 
dog face
girl
woman with bunny ears 
face with no good gesture 
squared ng 
japanese_goblin (Caliban)
antenna with bars
chart with downwards trend 
angry face
smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat
bride with veil
sparkling heart = joy? 
glowing star 
fearful face
black nib
currency exchange (haggles? sells?)
pill 
monkey
person with blond hair
house with garden
school 
ox 
face with ok gesture 
spouting whale
anguished face 
meat on bone (beastly dead)
flushed face
heavy large circle (targeting problem?)
bomb