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Synopsis
by Gerry O'Flaherty
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The Office |
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It is
noon. Bloom has returned to the city after the funeral and is in
the offices of the Weekly Freeman. Red Murray gives him a copy of
an advertisement for the firm of Alexander Keyes, which Bloom wants
to have renewed. The business manager, Councillor Nannetti, asks
to see the design of the advertisement. Bloom goes to the office
of The Evening Telegraph, which is in another part of the building,
to phone Keyes. Here he finds Simon Dedalus, Ned Lambert, Professor
MacHugh, JJ O'Molloy, Lenehan and the editor Myles Crawford.
Just
as Bloom has left to meet Keyes, Stephen Dedalus arrives with
O'Madden Burke. Stephen gives Deasy's letter to the editor and
is in turn asked to write something for the paper. Talk turns
to the Invincibles, advocates of the past and a speech, which
JF Taylor made in favour of the Irish language.
Stephen
suggests that they adjourn for a drink and on the way he relates
the Parable of the Plums. Bloom arrives back at the worst possible
moment and is brusquely dismissed by Crawford.
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In
Homer, Aeolus/Crawford gives Odysseus/Bloom all unfavourable winds
tied in a bag, but within sight of home the crew open the bag
and the ship is driven way off course. When Odysseus goes back
to Aeolus he is rudely sent away.
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John F Taylor was a barrister who addressed
the Law Students' Debating Society on October 24 1901.
He was an orator who Joyce respected who spoke on
the defense of the Irish Language. Joyce's version
of the speech in Aeolus seems to be a combination
of his own memory of that event and a pamphlet Taylor
wrote in 1903.
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'Twas Rank and Fame from The Rose of Castille
Words by Augustus Harris and Edmund Falconer
Music by Michael Balfe
This aria is sung by Manuel in Act III of Balfe's
opera The Rose of Castille. It features in both the
Aeolus and Sirens episodes in Ulysses. In Sirens,
Bloom listens while Ritchie Goulding fonding remembers
his brother-in-law Simon Dedalus' singing of the aria.
Another song of betrayal, its relevance lies in the
fact that Simon treats Ritchie with contempt.
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