The chapter takes place at 4:00 PM in the Ormond Hotel. Bloom undergoes defeat as he resigns himself to Molly's upcoming meeting with Boylan, thinking "it is too late now". The chapter has musical elements like fugue and arias that mirror Bloom's experience. He identifies with both the character Lionel who loses his love in an aria, and the betrayed Croppy Boy in a song. Bloom writes a letter to Martha expressing his loneliness before leaving the hotel as the Croppy Boy song plays, linking political and sexual betrayal in Ireland.

1. Chapter 10: Wandering Rocks
3:00: Dublin Streets

2. Preliminaries
1. An en’tracte midway thru novel
a. Wandering Rocks not in Odyssey
2. Bloom & Stephen minor characters in
3. Ecclesiastical and Civil authority
a. Father Conmee’s constitutional
b. Viceregal Procession
c. twin poles of power in Ireland
4. Commerce & economy
a. Martin Cunningham raising $ for Dignams
b. Kernan pleased w/deal
c. Father Cowley avoiding debt to Dodd
d. auction house gavel
5. The city of Dublin
a. as main character
b. bird’s eye view
c. coverage of all minor characters
6. The date: June 16, 1904
a. Boylan’s secretary: 188
1) prefers romances to Wilkie Collins

3. Narrative
1. 19 segments
2. Discontinuous relations between
3. Documentary quality
4. Aristotle: unities of time & space
a. reinforced in “Wandering Rocks”
5. interior monologues provide different perspectives:
a. Boylanon “young pullet” (187)
b. the girl: “got up regardless /w/his tie a bit crooked” (187)
c. Dignam’s son “toff& swell pair of kicks” (206)
6. Coincidences
a. Bloom discovers Aristotle in bookstall
1) Stephen discovers the Pentateuch
c. Bloom gives 5 shillings to Dignam children
1) Molly flings coin to 1-legged sailor
d. McCoy: “My missus sang there once” 192
1) “A card Unfurnished Apartments reappeared on…number 7 Eccles Street”
2) links between 2 singing wives of Bloom & McCoy
e. Lenehan& McCoy pass Bloom scanning books
1) having left Bantom Lyons
2) Bloom has given Lyons Throwaway clue
3) Lenehan’s story about the Glencree dinner & Molly’s body

4. Interpolations
1. Synchronous eventsand irony:
a. Bloom thinking of sex
1) Stephen thinking of death
b. Magini, dancing master (181)
1) interrupts Conmee’s meditation
c. Maggie &Boody imagine pawning books
1) auctioneer’s gavel comes down (186)
2) Boody : “Our Father who art not in Heaven” (186)
3) “Elijah is coming” throwaway floats down Liffey
d. Conmee sees Corny Kelleher in coffin shop
1) 185: same event from Corny’s perspective
e. Bloom reads: “*Raoul’s+ hands felt for the opulent curves”
1) Lenehan’s hands mould “ample curves of air”

5. Stephen and Bloom
1. Minor characters in chapter
2. Dedalus family seen in detail
a. poverty of
3. Dilly buys French grammar
a. Stephen: “she is drowing” (200)
4. Simon Dedalus
a. begrudges $ to Dilly for food
b. spends in pubs
5. Bloom
a. seen briefly buying Sweets of Sin
b. treated charitably by others
1) “Touch of the artist in old Bloom” (193)
2) McCoy’s discomfort at Lenehan’s story

6. Other issues
1. Father Conmee
a. narrator’s attitude toward?
b. condescension toward others
c. “very superior” attitude
2. anti-semitism
a. the “gombeen man” Reuben Dodd
b. outsmarted by John Henry Menton
3. Lord Lieutenant’s procession
a. narrative: newspaper account
b. re-visits characters already seen
c. represents civil authority
1) contrast to Father Conmee
2) “containment” of Dublin
a) under signs of British rule
d. are seen by most characters in novel
1) including Man in MacIntosh

7. Chapter 11: Sirens
4:00: Ormond Hotel.

10. Details
1. 4:00: time of assignation w/Boylan
2. Organ: ear
a. music as motif
3. The Sirens?
4. The men in the Ormond?
a. failed manhood
b. seduced by Siren song
c. masturbatory fantasies
5. Deafness & blindness in chapter
a. Odyssey must “plug his ears”
b. Bloom seeks not to know what he knows
c. waiter, Bald Pat, is deaf
d. the blind piano tuner
5. Chapter of resignations
a. Bloom undergoes defeat
b. “no son. Rudy. Too late now. Or if not? (238)
c. “the last sardine of summer. Bloom alone” (237)
6. Simon: “my dancing days are done” (223)

11. Music
1. The overture (“Begin”)
a. opening 60 lines condense chapter
b. condensation: line 11.29 / 11.780
c. narrator’s foreknowledge of future events?
2. Musical language in
a. 218: “Miss Douce took Boylan’s coin”
b. 219: “Bending, she nipped a peak…”
c. 222: “By Bachelor’s Walk jogjaunty jingled Blazes Boylan…”
3. Fugue (technique of chapter)
a. how used?
b. Bloom & “old fogey” (213)
c. Dedalus & Boom &Boylan (216)
d. Bloom leaving, tap tap, Croppy Boy (235)
4. As Bloom’s distraction
a. “wishes they’d sing more..to keep *his+ mind off”
5. “Done”: conclusion of chapter

12. Arias
1. Lionel’s aria from Martha (225)
a. Sung by Simon Dedalus
b. Lionel goes mad after losing his love
c. The duet
1) Bloom & Dedalus joined in duet
2) Bloom thinks of Molly & Martha
3) become “Siopold” (227)
1) e.g. Simon, Leopold, Lionel
2. “The Croppy Boy” (234)
a. sung by Ben Dollard
b. betrayal of young Irish rebel
c. British officer disguised as priest
d. Bloom’s identification w/ Croppy Boy
1) “I alone am left of my name & race”
3. Relation between 2 songs?

13. Siopold
1. Bloom’s turning point?
a. Confronts jealousy, betrayal
b. Endures male camaraderie
c. Faces music: Boylan 217
2. Identifies w/Simon Dedalus
a. “To me! Siopold / Consumed” (227)

14. Bloom Writes a Letter
1. Refuses consolations of male camaraderie
2. Writes letter to Martha
a. “I feel so sad today, so lonely” (230)
3. Joined to others through music
a. yet alienated from them
4. Leaves Ormond to singing of “Croppy Boy”
a. sees picture of Robert Emmet
a. Robert Emmett’s epitaph: “When my country takes her place among the
nations of the earth, then and not ill then let my epitaph be written. I have
done”
a. in re: Bloom?
b. political betrayal linked to sexual betrayal
5. Bloom’s final fart
a. how should we read (hear?) this?