This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1920 to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.
| Title | Time | Colour | People | Science / Art | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telemachus | 8am - 9am | Gold / white |
|
Theology | Dispossessed son in contest |
| Nestor | 9am - 10am | Brown |
|
History | The wisdom of the ancients |
| Proteus | 10am - 11am | Blue |
|
Philology | Primal matter |
| Calypso | 8am - 9am | Orange |
|
Mythology | The departing wayfarer |
| Lotus Eaters | 9am - 10am | Dark brown |
|
Chemistry | The temptation of faith |
| Hades | 11am - 12pm | Black-white |
|
- | The descent into nothingness |
| Aeolus | 12pm - 1pm | Red |
|
Rhetoric | The derision of victory |
| Lestrygonians | 1pm - 2pm | Blood red |
|
Architecture | Despondency |
| Scylla and Charybdis | 2pm - 3pm | - |
|
Literature | The double-edge sword |
| Wandering Rocks | 3pm - 4pm | Rainbow |
|
Mechanics | The hostile milieu |
| Sirens | 4pm - 5pm | Coral |
|
Music | The sweet deceit |
| Cyclops | 5pm - 6pm | Green |
|
Surgery | Egocidal terror |
| Nausicaa | 8pm - 9pm | Grey |
|
Painting | The projected mirage |
| Oxen of the Sun | 10pm - 11pm | White |
|
Physics | The eternal herds |
| Circe | 11pm - 12am | Violet |
|
Dance | The man-hating ogress |
| Eumaeus | 12am - 1am | - |
|
- | The ambush on home ground |
| Ithaca | 1am - 2am | - |
|
- | Armed hope |
| Penelope | <math>\infty<math> | - |
|
- | The past sleeps |
| Title | Technic | Organ | Symbols |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telemachus |
Dialogue for three and four, narration, soliloquy |
- | Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen |
| Nestor |
Dialogue for 2, narration, soliloquy |
- | Ulster, woman, practical sense |
| Proteus |
Soliloquy |
- | World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis |
| Calypso |
Dialogue for 2, soliloquy |
Kidneys | Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity |
| Lotus Eaters |
Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy |
Skin | Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats |
| Hades |
Dialogue, narration |
Heart | Cemetry, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak |
| Aeolus |
Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes |
Lungs | Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability |
| Lestrygonians |
Peristaltic prose |
Oesophagus |
Bloody sacrifice, food, shame |
| Scylla and Charybdis |
Whirlpools |
Brain |
Hamlet, Shakespeare, Christ, Socrates, London, Stratford, scholasticism, mysticism, Plato, Aristotle, youth, maturity |
| Wandering Rocks |
Shifting labyrinth between two shores |
Blood |
Caesar, Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances |
| Sirens |
Fuga per canonem |
Ear |
Promises, female, sounds, embellishments |
| Cyclops | Alternating asymmetry | Muscles, bones |
Nation, state, religion, dynasty, idealism, exaggeration, fanaticism, collectivity |
| Nausicaa | Retrogressive progression | Eye, nose |
Onanism, feminine, hypocrisy |
| Oxen of the Sun |
Prose, embryo, foetus, birth |
Matrix, uterus |
Fertilisation, frauds, parthenogenesis |
| Circe |
Exploding vision |
Locomotor apparatus, skeleton |
Zoology, personification, pantheism, magic, poison, antidote, reel |
| Eumaeus | Relaxed prose | Nerves | - |
| Ithaca |
Dialogue, pacified style, fusion |
Juices | - |
| Penelope |
Monologue, resigned style |
Fat | - |