Erstwhile, I'm going to give you a list of... drum roll please... the chapter titles! wahoo! They're even grouped under the three main section headings; how's that for decadence? And as a special treat, some of the titles will jump you down the page to my favorite quotes from that chapter. You'll notice that there are a lot more from the latter part of the book... I think I was more in a quote-noting kind of mood this year. I've also included the line numbers, according to the internationally recognized system-thingie. So. Here we go.
Telemachiad
1. Telemachus
2. Nestor
3. Proteus
Odyssey
4. Calypso
5. Lotus Eaters
6. Hades
7. Aeolus
8. Lestrygonians
9. Scylla & Charybdis
10. Wandering Rocks
11. Sirens
12. Cyclops
13. Nausicaa
14. Oxen of the Sun
15. Circe
Nastos
16. Eumaeus
17. Ithaca
18. Penelope
Lestrygonians
*A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore. (637-639)
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Wandering Rocks
*Stephen Dedalus watched through the webbed window the lapidary's fingers prove a timedulled chain. Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.
Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil lights shining in the darkness. Where fallen archangels flung the stars of their brows. Muddy swinesnouts, hands, root and root, gripe and wrest them. (800-807)
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Circe
*Bloom: (bitterly) Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and bottle. I'm sick of it. Let everything rip. (1973-5)
*(In the cone of the searchlight behind the coalscuttle, ollave, holyeyed, the bearded figure of Mananaun MacLir broods, chin on knees. He rises slowly. A cold seawind blows from his druid mouth. About his head writhe eels and elvers. He is encrusted with weeds and shells. His right hand holds a bicycle pump. His left hand grasps a huge crayfish by its two talons.) Mananaun MacLir: (with a voice of waves) Aum! Hek! Wal! Ak! Lub! Mor! Ma! White yoghin of the gods. Occult pimander of Hermes Trismegistos. (with a voice of whistling seawind) Punarjanam patsypunjaub! I won't have my leg pulled. It has been said by one: beware the left, the cult of Shakti. (with a cry of stormbirds) Shakti Shiva, darkhidden Father! (He smites with his bicycle pump the crayfish in his left hand. On its cooperative dial glow the twelve signs of the zodiac. He wails with the vehemence of the ocean.) Aum! Baum! Pyjaum! I am the light of the homestead! I am the dreamery creamery butter. (2261-2278)
*I'm very fond of what I like. (2702-2703)
*We have met before. On another star. (3253)
*The Mother [a corpse]: (comes nearer, breathing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes)All must go through it, Stephen. (4181-4183)
*Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an Eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book in his hand. He reads from right to left inaudibly, smiling, kissing the page.... He has a delicate mauve face. On his suit he has diamond and ruby buttons. In his free hand he holds a slim ivory cane with a violet bowknot. A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket. (4956-4960,4965-7)
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Eumaeus
*All are washed in the blood of the sun. (889-90)
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Ithaca
*From inexistence to existence he came to many and was as one received: existence with existence he was with any as any with any: from existence gone he would be by all as none perceived. (67-69)
*The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. (1039)
*What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed? The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woolen mattress (biscuit section). (2035-2041)
*Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity? From outrage (matrimony) to outrage (adultery) there arose nought but outrage (copulation) yet the matrimonial violator of the matrimonially violated had not been outraged by the adulterous violator of the adulterously violated. (2195-2199)
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