The cracked looking glass of art, a symbol of Irish art. I dunno, I looked it up, but just found J.J. stuff I don't think I much care for Buck Mulligan,"Buck Mulligan suddenly linked his arm in Stephens's and walked with him around the tower, his razor and mirror clacking in the pocket where he had thrust them" Kind of a threatening sequence of words in my opinion.
Ol' Buck Mulligan has told Stephen on two separate occasions, that two separate individuals do not consider him a Gentleman. Haines, the ponderous WASP and "oxy chap" downstairs who stinks of money
Cranly's arm. His arm. Something to do with APOTAAAYM. I don't remember
To ourselves... New Paganism... Omphalos.
The Omphalos! This a stone that looks kind of like a pineapple. It was found Greece. It was called the navel of the world, The ancient Greeks believed it was the center of the world.
I find it kind of tricky to say that the Greeks "believed" it was the center of the world. I struggled my way through a book called The Birth of Tragedy written by Neitzche that shed some light on how Greeks dealt with the ideas of believing. I won't attempt to explain it. You should read it.
It appears that some rich kids staying in Clive Kempthropes rooms are being some bratty jerks to a lady trying to make them some clothes.
It's become evident that Stephen has some qualms with this guy. Buck knows it too.
Stephen Dedalus, lets out with it. He reminded Buck Mulligan about when Stephen was hanging at Mulligan's house after him mom died. He went on describing the situation where Bucks mom comes around asking who was in Buck's room. Buck answers his mom by saying "O, it's only Dedalus, whose mother is beastly dead."
OK, a little background, I think I remember this. Stephens mom was dying, and for some reason I can't remember, he wouldn't bend his knee to pray for her, which was her last wish.
Anyway, Mo'fuckin' Buck let's him have it!
Turns out that to Buck, Death ain't no holy thing, his job is working at the "Mater and Richmond" I guess that's a hospital, and he sees folks dying all the time and has to "Cut them them up in tripes in the Dissectingroom". Then follows it up with basically calling Stephen a hypocrite, for saying shit about about his mom, but Stephen wouldn't even humor his mom to pray with her on her thadeath bed.
He explains himself more elegantly than I just did, but I think that's the jist.
Yeah, I get Bucks point.
But then ol' Kinch drops the rebutal bomb on the Buck
-"I am not thinking of the offence to my mother."
-"Of what then" Buck Mulligan asked.
-"Of the offence to me" Stephen answered.
Of course Buck gets frustrated, calls him impossible and walks away leaving Stephen, who is still looking at the sea.
I found an Alliteration! "Wavewhite wedded words"
New Players-
Seymour- Someone capable of giving a good ragging to Haines.
Clive Kempthorpe-He got a good ragging.
Aubrey-I think A rich kid living in Clive Kempthrope rooms
Ades Of Magdalen- I think a Seamstress.
A Deaf Gardener- Masked with Matthews Arnold's face. (Mathew Arnold was a English poet, social critic and school inspector who looked kind of like a Werewolf. Born on Christmas Eve 1822, died April 15, 1888)
sir Peter Teazle - Stephen Deladus' moms doctor. Actually I read that wrong. It was actually the name that Stephen Daladus' mom called her doctor.
Come to find out that sir Peter Teazle was a character in a story/plan written by Richard Brinsley Sharidan, Called The School of Scandal,
Chuck Loyola- No idea
The Sassenach- No idea
Glossary
Lancet Surgical knife or a pointy, arch type of window seen in catholic churches
Steelpen - I guess a pen made of steel?
Jalap - A laxative Herb or also another name for pokesalad..... Poke.... Salad... Way down in Louisiana...
Debagged- Dropping someones pants as a joke or just to be a jerk
Aproned- to be covered with an apron
Places
Lalouette - A place with mute people?
Mater and Richmond - Where Buck Mulligan works, cutting dead people into tripes.
