The document provides an analysis of key events and themes in Chapter 7 of Ulysses. It examines Bloom's visit to the newspaper offices and how the chapter engages with ideas of print culture, rhetoric, nationalism, and Stephen's "Parable of the Plums." References are made to biblical stories of Moses and Aeolus, along with discussions of speeches and the rhetoric used in the chapter.

1. Chapter 7: Aeolus
12:00: Newspaper offices of the
Freeman’s Journal and Evening
Telegraph

2. 1. Aeolus in Odyssey
a. winds & fate
b. “within sight of home”
2. Work
a. we see Bloom doing some work
b. what other forms of labor do we see, if any, in the novel?
2. Noise
a. trams, barrels, printing presses
1) “sllt” (100)
b. “In the Heart of Hibernian Metropolis”
3. Moses & Exodus
a. SeymoreBushe on Michelangelo
b. Bloom as Moses
1) leader of flock, outsider in Paradise
2) remembers Passover sederl (101)
c. Stephen: Parable of Plums
1) “A Pisgah Sight of Paradise”

3. Print Culture
1. Print Culture: Newspapers and journalism
a. and modernity
b. linked, in opening, to trams & streetcars
2. headlines to separate sections
a. real or projections of individual characters?
3. Seductions of print culture
a. Stephen offered job in
b. Bloom’s revery on
4. Journalism & history
a. p. 98: juxtaposition of dissimilar info.
b. history reduced to “bytes”
c. Ignatius Gallaher on Phoenix Park murders (112)

4. Rhetoric and Oratory
1. “Aeolus” a chapter about lungs
a. lungs as “organ” of chapter
2. Art of chapter: rhetoric
a. why, in a chapter about newspapers?
a. multiple forms of rhetoric used
b. Irish and oratory
c. McHugh: “we mustn’t be led away by words…” (108)
1) yet men enchanted by sound of own voices
2) “Youth led by Experience visits Notoriety” (108)
3. Multiple speeches in
a. Dan Dawson’s speech (102)
1) “our lovely land”
2) “whose land?” Bloom asks (103)
a. SeymoreBushe on Michelangelo Moses
b. McHugh on decadent Rome (108)
c. John Taylor on Moses in Egypt
d. Stephen’s spech, “Parable of Plums
5. How is rhetoric necessary to national consolidation?

5. Whose Land?
1. race & nation as subtext of chapter
a. those denied access to promised land
1) Nanetti: “Strange he never saw his real country”
2) Moses: never entered promised land
3) 2 old women: unable to see Dublin
b. Nanetti, like Bloom, born in Ireland
1) hence “his real country” = Ireland, not Italy
2) Bloom mistake’s Nanetti’s Italy for “his country”
2. “Cloacal obsessions”108
a. Professor McHugh on nationalism
b. Rome and England, imperium romanum, Makers of water
closets

6. John Taylor speech
1. Revival of Irish tongue (116)
a. Tape of Joyce reading
2. had Moses listened to rhetoric of Egyptian priest
a. would never have led Jews out of bondage
b. Jews under Pharoah like Irish under Britain
3. Moses leading Jews out of bondage
4. Taylor: what if Moses heeded Egyptian priest?
5. (118) Moses died before entering Jerusalem
6. Speech links Irish & Jews
a. Irish appropriate racialization used against them

7. Nelson’s Column

9. Parable of the Plums
1. Stephen’s appearance
a. Deasy article
b. Stephen’s torn-off poem
c. offered job writing for newspaper
2. Stephen’s story
a. plums (“What’s a home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat”
b. Nelson’s column
c. 2 old women spit seeds from top of column
d. “a Pisgah sight of Palestine”
1) e.g. women see Dublin from above
3. Moral of?
a. virgins will not see paradise of sexual fulfillment
b. Irish will only see a sight of promised home rule
c. just as Moses never entered Promised Land

10. Chapter 8: Lestrygonians
1:00
1. organ: esophagus
2. technique: peristalsis
a. Digestion
3. narrative in
a. Bloom’s internal monologue
b. We experience his hungers from within
c. Corporeality experienced via taste & smell
4. internal monologue in “Lestrygonians”
a. constant shift from 3rd to 1st person
b. Example: 127: Hely’ssandwichmen;
c. Example: 144 naked Venuses

11. A. Bloom as Elijah 124
1. “throwaway” (flyer, advertisement)
a. “We are washed in blood of lamb”
2. Bloom confuses “blood” w/Bloom
a. Bloom as absent Elijah at Passover Seder
b. the vacant space left at the table
b. Bloom as eater and as consumed
B. Bloom’s kindness toward others
1. Dilly Dedalus, blind stripling, “poor birds” (feeds gulls),
2. pities Mrs. Breen
3. Thinks of pain of childbirth (Mrs. Purefoy)
4. thinks of May Dedalus & her 15 children
5. Thinks of urinals for women 133

12. Food and Eating
1. chapter about communion “meal”
a. And animal ritual of eating
c. Calypso: we first encounter Bloom as an eater of meat
d. You are what you eat
2. Burton Hotel: “Eat or be eaten. Kill! Kill!” 139
a. Bloom’s gorge rises when seeing eaters in Burton’s
b. Feels like he’s been “eaten & spewed” 135
1) sees own role in food chain
3. Bloom’s lunch at Davy Byrne’s
a. What does he eat for lunch?
b. Why does he keep checking his watch? (141)
4. “Mild fire of wine kindled his veins.” (143)
a. Bloom’s revery on food &disgust

13. Eucharist & Transubstantiation
1. Central mystery of Catholicism
a. consuming flesh of savior
2. Haines: “personally I can’t stomach idea of personal God”
a. Protestant Haines discounts Catholic “stomaching” of
God
3. Bloom’s attitude toward in Lotus Eaters 66
“Corpus: body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupefies them first.
Hospice for the dying. They don’t seem to chew it; only swallow it
down. Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse. Why the cannibals cotton to
it” (ch. 5) 66
4. illuminated crucifix: Christ’s body & luminous cod 124

14. A. Catholicism and the body
1. Orality&Catholicism
2. no Confession w/out reproduction (124)
3. Prohibition against contraception (increase and multiply)
4. Poverty and multiple children
a. Dilly Dedalus
b. Dedalus family of 15
B. Molly & transubstantiation of flesh 144
1. Howth incident 144
2. Molly transfers seedcake to his mouth 144
3. erotic identification
4. alternative transubstantiation
C. Theosophists: eaters of “weggebobbles”
1. Bloom does not identify with
2. yet eats vegetarian lunch

15. Key events in chapter 8
1. “I was happier then” 137
a. “Or am I now I?”
b. Bloom’s memories of early life w/Molly
2. Mrs. Breen (Josie Powell)
3. Boer War
a. Irish opposition to British in So. Africa
4. Bloom’s marital life
5. Freemasonry & anti-Semitism
a. “he’s in the craft”
6. The statues (while avoiding Boylan)
a. what is Bloom looking for?