Linati schema for Ulysses

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
Telemachus 8am - 9am Gold / white
  • Telemachus
  • Mentor
  • Antinous
  • The Suitors
  • Penelope
Theology Dispossessed son in contest
Nestor 9am - 10am Brown
  • Telemachus
  • Nestor
  • Pisistratus
  • Helen
History The wisdom of the ancients
Proteus 10am - 11am Blue
  • Telemachus
  • Proteus
  • Menelaus
  • Helen
  • Megapenthes
Philology Primal matter
Calypso 8am - 9am Orange
  • Calypso
  • Penelope
  • Ulysses
  • Callidike
Mythology The departing wayfarer
Lotus Eaters 9am - 10am Dark brown
  • Euryloches
  • Polites
  • Ulysses
  • Nausicaa
Chemistry The temptation of faith
Hades 11am - 12pm Black-white
  • Ulysses
  • Elpenor
  • Ajax
  • Agamemnon
  • Hercules
  • Eriphyle
  • Sisyphus
  • Orion
  • Laertes etc.
  • Prometheus
  • Cerberus
  • Tiresais
  • Hades
  • Prosperpina
  • Telemachus
  • Antinous
- The descent into nothingness
Aeolus 12pm - 1pm Red
  • Aeolus
  • Sons
  • Telemachus
  • Mentor
  • Ulysses
Rhetoric The derision of victory
Lestrygonians 1pm - 2pm Blood red
  • Antiphates
  • The seductive daughter
  • Ulysses
Architecture Despondency
Scylla and Charybdis 2pm - 3pm -
  • Scylla
  • Charbydis
  • Telemachus
  • Ulysses
  • Antinous
Literature The double-edge sword
Wandering Rocks 3pm - 4pm Rainbow
  • Objects
  • Places
  • Forces
  • Ulysses
Mechanics The hostile milieu
Sirens 4pm - 5pm Coral
  • Leucothea
  • Parthenope
  • Ulysses
  • Orpheus
  • Menelaus
  • Argonauts
Music The sweet deceit
Cyclops 5pm - 6pm Green
  • Prometheus
  • Noman
  • Galatea
  • Ulysses
Surgery Egocidal terror
Nausicaa 8pm - 9pm Grey
  • Nausicaa
  • Handmaidens
  • Alcinous
  • Arete
  • Ulysses
Painting The projected mirage
Oxen of the Sun 10pm - 11pm White
  • Lampetie
  • Phaethusa
  • Helios Hyperion
  • Jove
  • Ulysses
Physics The eternal herds
Circe 11pm - 12am Violet
  • Circe
  • The Swine
  • Telemachus
  • Ulysses
  • Hermes
Dance The man-hating ogress
Eumaeus 12am - 1am -
  • Eumaeus
  • Ulysses
  • Telemachus
  • The Bad Goatherd
  • Pseudangelos
- The ambush on home ground
Ithaca 1am - 2am -
  • Ulysses
  • Telemachus
  • Eurycleia
  • The suitors
- Armed hope
Penelope <math>\infty<math> -
  • Ulysses
  • Laertes
  • Penelope
 - The past sleeps


Title Technic Organ Symbols
Telemachus

Dialogue for three and four, narration, soliloquy

- Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen
Nestor

Dialogue for 2, narration, soliloquy

- Ulster, woman, practical sense
Proteus

Soliloquy

- World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis
Calypso

Dialogue for 2, soliloquy

Kidneys Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity
Lotus Eaters

Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy

Skin Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats
Hades

Dialogue, narration

Heart Cemetry, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak
Aeolus

Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes

Lungs Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability
Lestrygonians

Peristaltic prose

Oesophagus

Bloody sacrifice, food, shame

Scylla and Charybdis

Whirlpools

Brain

Hamlet, Shakespeare, Christ, Socrates, London, Stratford, scholasticism, mysticism, Plato, Aristotle, youth, maturity

Wandering Rocks

Shifting labyrinth between two shores

Blood

Caesar, Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances

Sirens

Fuga per canonem

Ear

Promises, female, sounds, embellishments

Cyclops Alternating asymmetry Muscles, bones

Nation, state, religion, dynasty, idealism, exaggeration, fanaticism, collectivity

Nausicaa Retrogressive progression Eye, nose

Onanism, feminine, hypocrisy

Oxen of the Sun

Prose, embryo, foetus, birth

Matrix, uterus

Fertilisation, frauds, parthenogenesis

Circe

Exploding vision

Locomotor apparatus, skeleton

Zoology, personification, pantheism, magic, poison, antidote, reel

Eumaeus Relaxed prose Nerves -
Ithaca

Dialogue, pacified style, fusion

Juices -
Penelope

Monologue, resigned style

Fat -
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