Homer's Odyssey:
We come to know about Scylla, a foul monster with 12 legs and 6 thin necks each ending in a savage head, and Charybdis, who sucks and spews thrice a day black waters, in Book 12 of Odyssey. After Odysseus and his men return from Hades to the island of Circe, she feeds them food and wine, and keeps them on the island for a day. That night, while talking to Odysseus about his further journey home, she tells him of the dangers Scylla and Charybdis pose and how to avoid them.
James Joyce's Ulysses:
Joyce used the name Scylla and Charybdis to refer to the 9th episode/chapter of his Ulysses. The stage of this episode is a room in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. Stephen Dedalus, George Russell (aka A. E.), John Eglinton, Richard Best, Thomas Lyster* are gathered there. A heavy discussion about the approaches to and the relation between art, life and literature is going on. Their debate appears to be about two opposing views on whether literature should be seen in the author's biographical context or not. Shakespeare, and his work - especially Hamlet -, as well his personal life play the central part in Stephen's thoughts and arguments. Buck Mulligan joins them later. He is his usual joking self. As Stephen leaves the library with him, a man goes out between them, bowing, greeting. It is Bloom.
It is 2 p.m.
*All, except Stephen, were real Dubliners.
Selected Highlights of Episode 9 in Ulysses for the Uninitiated:
1. Sayings from Ulysses explored/explained:
- Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. (9.48)
- Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. (9.89)
- We have King Lear: and it is immortal. (9.188)
- Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound. (9.205)
- I, I and I.I. (9. 212)
- If others have their will Ann hath a way. (9.256)
- They list. And in the porches of their ears I pour. (9.465)
- He left her his Secondbest Bed (9.697)
- Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son? (9.844)
- We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, ..., but always meeting ourselves. (9.1044)
- The wandering jew, . . . (9.1209)
- The conversation between Hamlet and his father as a ghost in the 1964 Broadway version of Hamlet
- The poem, Nobodaddy, by William Blake (1757-1827)
And much more!
We come to know about Scylla, a foul monster with 12 legs and 6 thin necks each ending in a savage head, and Charybdis, who sucks and spews thrice a day black waters, in Book 12 of Odyssey. After Odysseus and his men return from Hades to the island of Circe, she feeds them food and wine, and keeps them on the island for a day. That night, while talking to Odysseus about his further journey home, she tells him of the dangers Scylla and Charybdis pose and how to avoid them.
James Joyce's Ulysses:
Joyce used the name Scylla and Charybdis to refer to the 9th episode/chapter of his Ulysses. The stage of this episode is a room in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. Stephen Dedalus, George Russell (aka A. E.), John Eglinton, Richard Best, Thomas Lyster* are gathered there. A heavy discussion about the approaches to and the relation between art, life and literature is going on. Their debate appears to be about two opposing views on whether literature should be seen in the author's biographical context or not. Shakespeare, and his work - especially Hamlet -, as well his personal life play the central part in Stephen's thoughts and arguments. Buck Mulligan joins them later. He is his usual joking self. As Stephen leaves the library with him, a man goes out between them, bowing, greeting. It is Bloom.
It is 2 p.m.
*All, except Stephen, were real Dubliners.
Selected Highlights of Episode 9 in Ulysses for the Uninitiated:
1. Sayings from Ulysses explored/explained:
- Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. (9.48)
- Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. (9.89)
- We have King Lear: and it is immortal. (9.188)
- Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound. (9.205)
- I, I and I.I. (9. 212)
- If others have their will Ann hath a way. (9.256)
- They list. And in the porches of their ears I pour. (9.465)
- He left her his Secondbest Bed (9.697)
- Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son? (9.844)
- We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, ..., but always meeting ourselves. (9.1044)
- The wandering jew, . . . (9.1209)
(Episode.Line numbers in brackets above are according to the Critical Edition of Ulysses by H. W. Gabler, 1986)
2. Illustrations:
- Watercolours and sketch by Catherine Meyer
- Reproduction of the photograph of Thomas Lyster, librarian at the National Library of Ireland from 1895 to 1920. (Image courtesy of the National Library)
3. Links to- Watercolours and sketch by Catherine Meyer
- Reproduction of the photograph of Thomas Lyster, librarian at the National Library of Ireland from 1895 to 1920. (Image courtesy of the National Library)
- The conversation between Hamlet and his father as a ghost in the 1964 Broadway version of Hamlet
- The poem, Nobodaddy, by William Blake (1757-1827)
And much more!
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