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The following chart represents one of the two schemas Joyce used to describe the structures of Ulysses. It is important to note that both of these shemas -- which closely resemble one another, aside from some minor but interesting disparities -- were drafted at a late stage in the writing of Ulysses. The vast bulk of the text preceded the schemas, and the schemas should not, therefore, be regarded as some species of "blueprint" for Ulysses.

The schema reproduced below first appeared in 1921 and was later printed in Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's "Ulysses" in 1930.

Joyce's Schema for Ulysses

Title Scene Hour Organ Art Colour Symbol Technic
1 Telemachus The Tower 8 a.m. Theology White, gold Heir Narrative (young)
2 Nestor The School 10 a.m. History Brown Horse Catechism (personal)
3 Proteus The Strand 11 a.m. Philology Green Tide Monologue (male)
4 Calypso The House 8 a.m. Kidney Economics Orange Nymph Narrative (mature)
5 Lotus-eaters The Bath 10 a.m. Genitals Botany, Chemistry Eucharist Narcissism
6 Hades The Graveyard 11 a.m. Heart Religion White, black Caretaker Incubism
7 Aeolus The Newspaper 12 noon Lungs Rhetoric Red Editor Enthymemic
8 Lestrygonians The Lunch 1 p.m. Esophagus Architecture Constables Peristaltic
9 Scylla and Charybdis The Library 2 p.m. Brain Literature Stratford, London Dialectic
10 Wandering Rocks The Streets 3 p.m. Blood Mechanics Citizens Labyrinth
11 Sirens The Concert Room 4 p.m. Ear Music Barmaids Fuga per canonem
12 Cyclops The Tavern 5 p.m. Muscle Politics Fenian Gigantism
13 Nausicaa The Rocks 8 p.m. Eye, Nose Painting Grey, blue Virgin Tumescence, detumescence
14 Oxen of the Sun The Hospital 10 p.m. Womb Medicine White Mothers Embryonic development
15 Circe The Brothel 12 midnight Locomotor Apparatus Magic Whore Hallucination
16 Eumaeus The Shelter 1 a.m. Nerves Navigation Sailors Narrative (old)
17 Ithaca The House 2 a.m. Skeleton Science Comets Catechism (impersonal)
18 Penelope The Bed Flesh Earth Monologue (female)
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