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	''Itsn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother?'' - reference to Algy is Algernon "Algy" Swinburne, whose poem, "A Triumph of Time," contains the line: "I will go back to the great sweet mother / mother & lover" (referring to the sea)		''Itsn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother?'' - reference to Algy is Algernon "Algy" Swinburne, whose poem, "A Triumph of Time," contains the line: "I will go back to the great sweet mother / mother & lover" (referring to the sea)

	''The snotgreen sea. The ~~scrotuntightening~~ sea.'' - A reference to Homer's "wine-dark sea," "wine-colored sea," made more Irish.		''The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.'' - A reference to Homer's "wine-dark sea," "wine-colored sea," made more Irish.

	''Epi oinopa ponton.'' - The original Greek, translating into the recurring phrase, "upon the wine-colored sea." The irony here is, this is one of the first terms any Greek student will learn. Mulligan pretends to know Greek, but uses two very common Greek phrases, the other being ''Thalatta'' - from Xeonophon's ''Anabasis''.)		''Epi oinopa ponton.'' - The original Greek, translating into the recurring phrase, "upon the wine-colored sea." The irony here is, this is one of the first terms any Greek student will learn. Mulligan pretends to know Greek, but uses two very common Greek phrases, the other being ''Thalatta'' - from Xeonophon's ''Anabasis''.)

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	''Introibo ad altare Dei.'' - I will go in to the altar of God. The book starts, right off the bat, by mocking the Catholic Mass, starting ceremonially, and invoking the beginning of Homer's Odyssey.		''Introibo ad altare Dei.'' - I will go in to the altar of God. The book starts, right off the bat, by mocking the Catholic Mass, starting ceremonially, and invoking the beginning of Homer's Odyssey.

	Kinch - nickname for Stephen; means "knife" (an image that recurs throughout Ulysses)		''Kinch'' - nickname for Stephen; means "knife" (an image that recurs throughout Ulysses)

	''For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.'' - Mocking the Catholic Mass		''For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.'' - Mocking the Catholic Mass

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	==Major Themes==		==Major Themes==

	Major themes in the chapter ~~include~~:		Major themes in the chapter:
	* Buck Mulligan's inversion of the Catholic Mass and Christianity in general~~. The~~ opening chapter ~~is full of~~ pokes at the ~~church~~ in ~~Rome.~~		* Buck Mulligan's inversion of the Catholic Mass and Christianity in general (the opening chapter pokes at the Catholic Church and Christianity in general over and over again)
	* References to numerous poets, Irish and otherwise (Algernon Swinburne, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, bawdy Irish drinking songs, and the Ballad of Joking Jesus)		* References to numerous poets, Irish and otherwise (Algernon Swinburne, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, bawdy Irish drinking songs, and the Ballad of Joking Jesus)
	* Themes of Ireland vs. England, homerule, ~~politicans~~ such as Parnell, and anti-semitic themes are all referenced in the first chapter. These recur throughout Ulysses, even serving (as in the case of nationalism, anti-semitism, and Chapter 12, Cyclops) as the entire theme of the chapter.		* Themes of Ireland vs. England, homerule, politicians such as Parnell, and anti-semitic themes are all referenced in the first chapter. These recur throughout Ulysses, even serving (as in the case of nationalism, anti-semitism, and Chapter 12, [[Ulysses/Cyclops\|Cyclops]]) as the entire theme of the chapter.
	* Discussions of, images of, Ireland abound; the broken mirror, the old woman, Stephen himself.		* Discussions of, images of, Ireland abound; the broken mirror, the old woman, Stephen himself.




	==The Ballad of Joking Jesus==		==The Ballad of Joking Jesus==

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	''Ghostly light on the tortured face. Her hoarse loud breath rattling in horror, while all prayed on their knees. Her eyes on me to strike me down. Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet: iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.'' - from the Catholic ceremony of Last Rites. Reference to non-martyred saints who suffered for their faith.		''Ghostly light on the tortured face. Her hoarse loud breath rattling in horror, while all prayed on their knees. Her eyes on me to strike me down. Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet: iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.'' - from the Catholic ceremony of Last Rites. Reference to non-martyred saints who suffered for their faith.

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	"Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbicans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning." Smoke, shaft of light - reference to Chapter 2. Also a visual image that is a reference to clouds of incense and shafts of light inside of a cathedral or church. (Barbican - the outer defense of a castle, especially a double-tower above a gate or drawbridge.)		''Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbicans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning.'' Smoke, shaft of light - reference to Chapter 2. Also a visual image that is a reference to clouds of incense and shafts of light inside of a cathedral or church. (Barbican - the outer defense of a castle, especially a double-tower above a gate or drawbridge.)

	"Daedalus has it, Buck Mulligan said. Janey Mack, I'm choked." - Janey Mack is an Irish euphamism for Jesus Christ		''Daedalus has it, Buck Mulligan said. Janey Mack, I'm choked.'' - Janey Mack is an Irish euphamism for Jesus Christ

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	"The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces." - Mulligan as a mock ethnographer; belief in a strange deity that judges loyalty of followers by willingness to slice off rings of skin from genitals of infant male offsprings. (Reference to 1900 papal ban on discussing the foreskin of Christ.)		''The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces.'' - Mulligan as a mock ethnographer; belief in a strange deity that judges loyalty of followers by willingness to slice off rings of skin from genitals of infant male offsprings. (Reference to 1900 papal ban on discussing the foreskin of Christ.)

	"Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. Yet here's a spot." - reference to Lady Macbeth, washing her hands in her sleep, conscience torturing the mind.		''Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. Yet here's a spot.'' - reference to Lady Macbeth, washing her hands in her sleep, conscience torturing the mind.

	"Mulligan is stripped of his garments." - more mockery of Christ and the Church		''Mulligan is stripped of his garments.'' - more mockery of Christ and the Church

	"Contradiction. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. Mercurial Malachi." - reference to Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"		''Contradiction. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. Mercurial Malachi.'' - reference to Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

	"Billy Pit had built them, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos." - William Pit t the younger - built forts to protect against the French (1803 Napoleonic wars)		''Billy Pit had built them, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos.'' - William Pit t the younger - built forts to protect against the French (1803 Napoleonic wars)

	"I'm not equal to Thomas Aquinas and the fiftyfive reasons he has made to prop it up. Wait till I have a few pints in me first." - Aquinas fused Christianity with Aristotalean philosophy. Originally he was controversial (Aristotle was a pagan), but later he became more accepted and was eventually named a Father of the Church		''I'm not equal to Thomas Aquinas and the fiftyfive reasons he has made to prop it up. Wait till I have a few pints in me first.'' - Aquinas fused Christianity with Aristotalean philosophy. Originally he was controversial (Aristotle was a pagan), but later he became more accepted and was eventually named a Father of the Church

			''We have grown out of Wilde and paradoxes.'' - Wilde quote: "There are two ways to dislike poetry. One way is to dislike it, the other way is to read Pope." Another Wilde quote: "I can resist anything except temptation."

			Ballad of Joking Jesus - reference to Oliver Gogarty's "The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus"

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			"The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces." - Mulligan as a mock ethnographer; belief in a strange deity that judges loyalty of followers by willingness to slice off rings of skin from genitals of infant male offsprings. (Reference to 1900 papal ban on discussing the foreskin of Christ.)

			"Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. Yet here's a spot." - reference to Lady Macbeth, washing her hands in her sleep, conscience torturing the mind.

			"Mulligan is stripped of his garments." - more mockery of Christ and the Church

			"Contradiction. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. Mercurial Malachi." - reference to Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

			"Billy Pit had built them, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos." - William Pit t the younger - built forts to protect against the French (1803 Napoleonic wars)

			"I'm not equal to Thomas Aquinas and the fiftyfive reasons he has made to prop it up. Wait till I have a few pints in me first." - Aquinas fused Christianity with Aristotalean philosophy. Originally he was controversial (Aristotle was a pagan), but later he became more accepted and was eventually named a Father of the Church

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	"The rage of Caliban at not seeing his face in a mirror, he said. If Wilde were only alive to see you." A reference to Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' and Oscar Wilde's ''A Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1891):		''The rage of Caliban at not seeing his face in a mirror, he said. If Wilde were only alive to see you.'' A reference to Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' and Oscar Wilde's ''A Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1891):

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	"Shouts from the open window startling evening in the quadrangle. A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the sombre lawn watching narrowly the dancing motes of grasshalms." Social critics as deaf gardeners - able to filter out absolutely everything.		''Shouts from the open window startling evening in the quadrangle. A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the sombre lawn watching narrowly the dancing motes of grasshalms.'' Social critics as deaf gardeners - able to filter out absolutely everything.

	"To ourselves... new paganism... omphalos." omphalos is the Greek word for "navel" - refers to a stone at the center of the world. Homer's Odyssey: "In a sea-girt isle, where is the navel of the sea"		''To ourselves... new paganism... omphalos.'' omphalos is the Greek word for "navel" - refers to a stone at the center of the world. Homer's Odyssey: "In a sea-girt isle, where is the navel of the sea"

	"You wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it's injected the wrong way." Cold, intellectual rigor and uncompromising intellectual consistency. A fever of anger caused by blood rushing to cheeks.		''You wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it's injected the wrong way.'' Cold, intellectual rigor and uncompromising intellectual consistency. (A fever of anger caused by blood rushing to cheeks.)

	Sir Peter Teazle - a racing horse		''Sir Peter Teazle'' - a racing horse

	hired mute from Lalouette's - mourners-for-hire to keep a funeral procession from being too sparse.		''hired mute from Lalouette's'' - mourners-for-hire to keep a funeral procession from being too sparse.

	"Chuck Loyola, Kinch, and come on down." - St. Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the Jesuits		''Chuck Loyola, Kinch, and come on down.'' - St. Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the Jesuits

	"And no more turn aside and brood / Upon love's bitter mystery / For Fergus rules the brazen cars" - W. B. Yeats, "Who Goes with Fergus"		''And no more turn aside and brood / Upon love's bitter mystery / For Fergus rules the brazen cars'' - W. B. Yeats, "Who Goes with Fergus"

	"I sang it alone in the house, holding down the long dark chords. Her door was open: she wanted to hear my music. Silent with awe and pity I went to her bedside. She was crying in her wretched bed." - Mulligan and Daedalus have very different impressions of the song.		''I sang it alone in the house, holding down the long dark chords. Her door was open: she wanted to hear my music. Silent with awe and pity I went to her bedside. She was crying in her wretched bed.'' - Mulligan and Daedalus have very different impressions of the song.

	"I am the boy / That can enjoy / Invisibility" - Stephen's mother hid that she attended bawdy shows		''I am the boy / That can enjoy / Invisibility'' - Stephen's mother hid that she attended bawdy shows

	"And no more turn aside and brood" - W. B. Yeats again		''And no more turn aside and brood'' - W. B. Yeats again

	"Ghostly light on the tortured face. Her hoarse loud breath rattling in horror, while all prayed on their knees. Her eyes on me to strike me down. ''Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet: iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.''" - from the Catholic ceremony of Last Rites. Reference to non-martyred saints who suffered for their faith.		''Ghostly light on the tortured face. Her hoarse loud breath rattling in horror, while all prayed on their knees. Her eyes on me to strike me down. Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet: iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.'' - from the Catholic ceremony of Last Rites. Reference to non-martyred saints who suffered for their faith.

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