II - Chapter 6

Overall chapter impression:

Heavy, dense. There was a coach ride, and a funeral.

Notes: (commentary and/or scribble I wrote to look at/up later)

Bloom and Dedalus' dad inna cab together

Huggermugger

Stowing in the wreaths - (aside) Christmas wreath storage how-tos have their own slice of the internet - still don't grok the phrase

Dedalus (Dad) doesn't like Mulligan

Crissie - 'wise'? Was she getting bathed in Stephen's imagined travels?

Tribe of Reuben? The judges & lawgivers, iirc

What's funny about the devil breaking the hasp of his back?

When did he look away, just now ('looking away now'), or a few minutes ago ('his eyes met Mr Bloom's eyes') Jeez - totally missed that first time around: Bloom's dad killed himself. Fuck. And the little one too.

Nice subject change by Martin - Gordon Bennett, lol

Raddled sheep blessing their fear - is this a Cyclops reference?

More macabre death thoughts - wax up the sphincter!

"... we'll pull up here on the way back" ... Isn't that what Dedalus said earlier: "first round Dunphy's"?

Circulation stops, and clotting happens. Blood is weird. But they don't bleed. There *may also be draining by the funeral ppl

No idea why that paragraph ended with: 'Fifteen.'

Dick, the solid man.

'Prayed over in Latin'. No it's the clergy trying to appear necessary as "only they can interpret the mysteries of the scriptures"

Nope, he did not just say 'the priest took a sick with a knob on the end of it out of the boys bucket'. Coz he doesn't know what an aspergillum is.

Who's the guy in the mac?

Who is chief Parnell - Jesus?

Robert Emery - Robert Emmett?

The love that kills??? Why is he chapfallen?

Something happened at the end there, but I don't know what. When what dawns on him?

Stuff I don't get:

How many of these people should I already know?

Is Reuben Bloom's dad or a little people?

Who was the guy in the Macpherson?

And, in conclusion:

Getting a sense of the story, but I have no idea of the important bits.

Also Joyce likes lowbrow shocks.