Linati schema for Ulysses
Appearance
This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1920 to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.
Title | Time | Colour | People | Science / Art | Meaning |
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Telemachus | 8am - 9am | Gold / white |
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Theology | Dispossessed son in contest |
Nestor | 9am - 10am | Brown |
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History | The wisdom of the ancients |
Proteus | 10am - 11am | Blue |
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Philology | Primal matter |
Calypso | 8am - 9am | Orange |
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Mythology | The departing wayfarer |
Lotus Eaters | 9am - 10am | Dark brown |
|
Chemistry | The temptation of faith |
Hades | 11am - 12pm | Black-white |
|
- | The descent into nothingness |
Aeolus | 12pm - 1pm | Red |
|
Rhetoric | The derision of victory |
Lestrygonians | 1pm - 2pm | Blood red |
|
Architecture | Despondency |
Scylla and Charybdis | 2pm - 3pm | - |
|
Literature | The double-edge sword |
Wandering Rocks | 3pm - 4pm | Rainbow |
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Mechanics | The hostile milieu |
Sirens | 4pm - 5pm | Coral |
|
Music | The sweet deceit |
Cyclops | 5pm - 6pm | Green |
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Surgery | Egocidal terror |
Nausicaa | 8pm - 9pm | Grey |
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Painting | The projected mirage |
Oxen of the Sun | 10pm - 11pm | White |
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Physics | The eternal herds |
Circe | 11pm - 12am | Violet |
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Dance | The man-hating ogress |
Eumaeus | 12am - 1am | - |
|
- | The ambush on home ground |
Ithaca | 1am - 2am | - |
|
- | Armed hope |
Penelope | - |
|
- | The past sleeps |