St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street - Wandering Rocks

This chapter is a microcosm of the book as a whole. The scene is the labyrinthine streets of Dublin and characters pass each other like blood flowing around the body. Fr Conmee SJ leaves the presbytery on the way to Artane. A onelegged sailor crutches himself round MacConnell’s corner. The Dedalus girls eat pea soup. Blazes Boylan orders a hamper as the H. E. L. Y.’S men file before him. Bloom scans books under Merchants’ arch. Almidano Artifoni misses the Dalkey tram. Miss Dunne clicks her keyboard:—16 June 1904. Ned Lambert shows Rev Hugh C Love saint Mary’s abbey. A young woman detaches a twig from her skirt. Lenehan walks with McCoy. Dilly gets money from Simon Dedalus. Tom Kernan walks towards James’s gate. Stephen browses books on Bedford Row. Mulligan and Haines see Parnell’s brother in the D.B.C. Master Dignam dawdles along Wicklow St and the viceregal cavalcade passes out by the lower gate of Phoenix park on the way to the Mirus bazaar.