Gilbert schema for Ulysses

This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce, in November 1921 in order to help his friend, Valery Larbaud, prepare a public lecture on the novel, which Joyce was still writing at the time. The lecture took place on 7 December 1921 at the Maison des Amis des Livres bookshop and lending library, owned and run by Adrienne Monnier. The schema was shown to intimates of Joyce during the 1920s and was eventually published by Stuart Gilbert in 1930 in his book, James Joyce’s “Ulysses”: A Study.^[1] Gilbert’s typed copy of the schema is housed in the Harley K. Croessmann Collection of James Joyce at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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

It’s a picture of a book cover of Ulysses

See also

• Linati schema for Ulysses

Notes

a. ^{^} Fuga per canonem: Latin for "fugue according to rule", a musical term for a round.