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The "Proteus" episode takes place along the Sandymount strand. Notice a Martello tower in this PC from the 1950s. |
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"Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot." (U3.2) |
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"With beaded mitre and with crozier," (U3.52)
A mitre is the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch. A crozier is the ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook. |
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In this PC of an Irish woman 'Going to Mass,' the mitre and crozier are emblems of Irish Catholicism. Others are the Muckross Abbey and the cross of Monasterboice. |
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"- He was raving all night about a black panther, Stephen said. Where is his guncase?
- A woful lunatic! Mulligan said. Were you in a funk? - I was, Stephen said with energy and growing fear. Out here in the dark with a man I don't know raving and moaning to himself about shooting a black panther. You saved men from drowning. I'm not a hero, however. If he stays on here I am off." (U1.57) |
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"I pull the wheezy bell of their shuttered cottage: and wait." (U3.70) |
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"Damn your lithia water. It lowers. Whusky!" (U3.90)
Lithia water is mineral water containing lithium (Li) salts. Medicinal interest in Li began in the mid-1800s when Lipowitz and Ure reported that Li solutions dissolved uric acid crystals. This led to the belief that lithium was useful in gout, and other diseases thought to be due to an imbalance in uric acid (including angina, asthma, arthritis, depression, headaches, hypertension, epilepsy). Lithium is used nowadays in the treatment of mood disorders. |
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"Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time." (U3.10) |
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"On the top of the Howth tram alone crying to the rain: naked women! naked women! What about that, eh?" (U3.133)
A tram line connecting Sutton Station to Howth opened in 1901. It was 5 five mile long, and was operated by the Great Northern Railway. On this PC, notice the tram's open upper level, where Stephen would likely be standing in the rain. |
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"copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world," (U3.141) |
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" Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man's ashes." (U3.150) |
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"He halted. I have passed the way to aunt Sara's. Am I not going there? Seems not. No-one about. He turned northeast and crossed the firmer sand towards the Pigeonhouse.
- Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position? - C'est le pigeon, Joseph. " (U3.158) (Image courtesy of the ZJJF) |
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"Patrice, home on furlough, lapped warm milk with me in the bar MacMahon. Son of the wild goose, Kevin Egan of Paris. My father's a bird, he lapped the sweet lait chaud with pink young tongue, plump bunny's face. Lap, lapin. He hopes to win in the gros lots. About the nature of women he read in Michelet." (U3.163) |
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"But he must send me La Vie de Jésus by M. Léo Taxil. Lent it to his friend.
- C'est tordant, vous savez. Moi, je suis socialiste. Je ne crois pas en l'existence de Dieu. Faut pas le dire à mon père. - Il croit? - Mon père, oui." (U3.167) La Vie de Jésus by M. Léo Taxil. was published in France in 1900. The author states in the preface: "My purpose is, by following step by step the christian legend, to bring out its ridicule and its contradictions in order to demonstrate that, from beginning to end, however one looks at it, the story of Jesus Christ, man or god, is nothing but a weave of immoral and stupid fables." |
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"Just say in the most natural tone: when I was in Paris, boul' Mich', I used to." (U3.178)
The Boulevard St. Michel is a street in the 5th arrondissement in Paris, part of the student 'Latin' quarter. This photo is taken from the Boul'Mich, looking toward the Ile de la Cité. |