We completed reading episode 2, and started with episode 3 (Proteus), stopping at
"Shut your eyes and see." (3.9)
Summary of the last part of episode 2:
After handing over Stephen his salary, and advising him to get a savingsbox and to save (his earnings), Mr Deasy tries to impress on Stephen the value of money. He asks him, "Do you know what is the proudest word you will ever hear from an Englishman's mouth?(2.243)" Mr Deasy himself provides the answer: "I paid my way (2.253)." A short discussion of the political leanings of Mr Deasy follows, at the end of which he asks Stephen for a favour. He has written a letter for the press (2.290) on the foot and mouth disease (2.321), and wants that Stephen helps him to get it printed and read before the next outbreak. He mentions that his cousin, Blackwood Price*, who has written to him that this disease is regularly treated and cured in Austria (2.340). While Mr Deasy finishes the letter on his typewriter, Stephen sits down and looks at the images of race horses hanging on the walls of the office and mulling over many things. At that time the English had imposed an embargo on Irish cattle. Perhaps trying to find a scapegoat for the embargo, Mr Deasy declares, "England is in the hands of the jews (2.346). . . . And they are the signs of a nation's decay (2.347)." He expresses more antisemitic views, harbinger of the coming times.
*Henry Blackwood Price was a friend of Joyce, and had corresponded with him about this topic. At that time the disease was spread in Ireland and England had imposed an embargo on Irish cattle. (Source: James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, p. 325.)
Summary of the beginning of episode 3:
After leaving the school, Stephen is walking along the Sandymount Strand. His mind is full of philosophical thoughts, of ideas (for example, on the form and colour of substances) he has read from philosophers such as Jakob Böhme, Aristotle, Dante Alighieri, . . . He recalls Dante's referring to Aristotle in his Divine Comedy as maestro di color che sanno (3.6) that means master of those who know.
"Shut your eyes and see." (3.9)
Summary of the last part of episode 2:
After handing over Stephen his salary, and advising him to get a savingsbox and to save (his earnings), Mr Deasy tries to impress on Stephen the value of money. He asks him, "Do you know what is the proudest word you will ever hear from an Englishman's mouth?(2.243)" Mr Deasy himself provides the answer: "I paid my way (2.253)." A short discussion of the political leanings of Mr Deasy follows, at the end of which he asks Stephen for a favour. He has written a letter for the press (2.290) on the foot and mouth disease (2.321), and wants that Stephen helps him to get it printed and read before the next outbreak. He mentions that his cousin, Blackwood Price*, who has written to him that this disease is regularly treated and cured in Austria (2.340). While Mr Deasy finishes the letter on his typewriter, Stephen sits down and looks at the images of race horses hanging on the walls of the office and mulling over many things. At that time the English had imposed an embargo on Irish cattle. Perhaps trying to find a scapegoat for the embargo, Mr Deasy declares, "England is in the hands of the jews (2.346). . . . And they are the signs of a nation's decay (2.347)." He expresses more antisemitic views, harbinger of the coming times.
*Henry Blackwood Price was a friend of Joyce, and had corresponded with him about this topic. At that time the disease was spread in Ireland and England had imposed an embargo on Irish cattle. (Source: James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, p. 325.)
Summary of the beginning of episode 3:
After leaving the school, Stephen is walking along the Sandymount Strand. His mind is full of philosophical thoughts, of ideas (for example, on the form and colour of substances) he has read from philosophers such as Jakob Böhme, Aristotle, Dante Alighieri, . . . He recalls Dante's referring to Aristotle in his Divine Comedy as maestro di color che sanno (3.6) that means master of those who know.
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