Joyces' plan for writing Ulysses

THE GILBERT SCHEMA

Title Location Time Organ Acad. Subject Colour Symbol Technique Page
I.
TELEMACHIA
White, Narrative
Telemachus The Tower 8 AM Theology Heir 1-23
gold (young)
The Catechism 24-
Nestor 10 AM History Brown Horse 36
School (personal)
Monologue 37-
Proteus The Strand 11 AM Philology Green Tide 51
(Male)
II. ODYSSEY
Narrative 54-
Calypso The House 8 AM Kidney Economics Orange Nymph 70
(Mature)
Botany, 71-
Lotus-Eaters The Bath 10 AM Genitals Eucharist Narcissism 86
Chemistry
White, 87-
Hades Graveyard 11 AM Heart Religion Caretaker Incubism 115
black
116-
Aeolus Newspaper 12 Noon Lungs Rhetoric Red Editor Enthymemic 150
151-
Lestrygonians Lunch 1 PM Oesophagus Architecture Constables Peristaltic 183
Scylla and The Stratford, 184-
2 PM Brain Literature Dialectic 218
Charybdis Library London
Wandering 219-
The Streets 3 PM Muscle Mechanics Citizens Labyrinth 255
Rocks
Concert Fuga par 256-
Sirens 4 PM Ear Music Barmaids 291
Room Canonem
292-
Cyclops Tavern 5 PM Muscle Politics Fenian Gigantism 345
Grey, Tumescence/ 346-
Nausicaa The Rocks 8 PM Eye, Nose Painting Virgin
Blue Detumescence 382
Embryonic 383-
Oxen of the Sun Hospital 10 PM Womb Medicine White Mothers
development 428
12 Locomoter 429-
Circe Brothel Magic Whore Hallucination 609
Midnight apparatus
III. NOSTOS
The Narrative 611-
Eumaeus 1 AM Nerves Navigation Sailors 665
Shelter (old)
Catechism 666-
Ithaca The House 2 AM Skeleton Science Comets
(impersonal) 737
Monologue 738-
Penelope The Bed Flesh Earth 783
(female)