Joyce's notes 1

RICHARD-- an automystic
ROBERT-- an automobile.

would JAJ have called himself an automystic?

is Shaun an automobile?
005.32 "autokinotons"
235.27 "Fyat-Fyat shall be our number on the autokinaton"
448.29 "privy-sealed orders to get me an increase of automoboil and footwear for these poor discalced"
483.25 "did I altermobile him to a flare"
614.30 "autokinatonetically preprovided"

293.19 "of specious aristmystic unsaid"
477.21 "thurrible mystagogue"

Richard writes about Beatrice, fails to pursue job
Robert tries to seduce Bertha and get Richard a job


The soul like the body may have a virginity. For the woman to yield it or for the man to take it is the act of love. Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. It is the repressed consciousness of this inability and lack of spiritual energy which explains Bertha's mental paralysis

mysticism? implies women should give themselves to one only

many counterexamples!

why should Bertha repress such consciousness?

Richard/Joyce allows himself to dally widely, but only once to love?


Her age: 28. Robert likens her to the moon because of her dress. Her age is the completion of a lunar rhythm. Cf. Oriani on menstrual flow-- la malattia sacra che in un ritmo lunare prepara la donna per il sacrificio.

'the sacred disease that in a lunar rhythm prepares women for the sacrifice' [ebook] 'Una malattia sacra sembra in un ritmo lunare prepararla al sacrificio' = A sacred disease appears in a lunar rhythm prepare for sacrifice

poetic numerology, cf FW's 28+1 rainbow girls