*Eucharist is a symbol of the Lotus eaters, the lotus, brings us a redemption that we can't bring to ourselves
*Bloom is an outsider in the church, he thinks they're eating the actual corpse
*Power is the ability to do something or influence people
*This is the chapter that's about nothing
*Lotus - semitic word "intoxicationg flower" opiate
*Conceptual, sensual, sleep, sexual intoxication in this chapter
*amathia - not remembering anything
"The only evil is distraction" -Kafka
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time" -Blake
"We are distracted from distraction by distraction" -Eliot
*One-third of the way through the book, chapter-wise
*Funeral procession passes over the three canals of Dublin (Grand, Royal, Liffe) which signify the three rivers of the underworld (Styx, Acheton, Phlegethon)
*The first time we see Bloom in a social situation
*Charon - the river man of Acheton
*Martin Cunningham represents Sisyphus "Shoulder to the wheel"
*This is also the first near meeting of Stephen and Bloom
*rhetoric - for newspaper writing/red is the color pun for reading
*chaiemus - a rhetorical technique
*The book really becomes a character in this chapter; it really takes on a life of its own
*Eolian Harp - an instrument of medieval times that was played by the wind, this represents the book itself, the book's voice is heard here
*Kyrie Eleison - Lord have mercy
*Mysterious Parable of the Plums, like Dublin? Spitting out the seeds of fertility, not letting the city grow to its full potential?
*Lestrygonians were cannibals, represented by the diners in this chapter
*Birth is the cause of suffering in Buddhism
*Sinn Fein, an underground political party in Ireland, was established in 1905 "We together, ourselves alone"
*?There are 32 interprelitions in this chapter
*throwaway - piece of paper, likened to abrupt scene changes in cinematography
*Only Jason of Argonaut had attempted to make his way through the Wandering Rocks. Odysseus chose Scylla and Charybdis instead
*Anyone who encounters the wandering rocks is prevented from going on their way
*mcguffin - element or item that distracts your attention (Hitchcock was a master of the mcguffin)
*pleurosis - filling up, representative of Joyce's writing
*kenosis - emptying out, representative of Beckett's writing
*Stephen is trying to steer his boat between many dichotomies: materialism and mysticism, Aristotle and Plato for examples
*1922 is the formal date of publication
*When men hear the sirens, they don't want to go home. They are steered towards the rocks upon which they die. Odysseus puts wax in his men's ears to prevent them from hearing.
*Beginning of Sirens is an overture "Bronze by Gold."
*Bloom sees Blazes Boyaln for the third time
*Sirens is the launching point for the rest of the book - act of narrating takes over
*Fugue - lot of things going on, multiple similar themes that occur at the same time
*Synesthetically - smelling colors, reading sounds, using one sense to perceive something else
*Walter Pater says that art exists for art's sake and that all the arts aspire to the condition of music.
*Happy chapter that deals with music but there is sadness at four o'clock when Blazes goes to see Molly