Release date: June 16th 2026
 
Schema (view full Schema here)
Scene: The Strand
Hour: 11am
Organ: -
Colour: Green
Symbol: Tide
Art: Philology
Technic: Monologue (male)
 
Episode Storyline and Characters
Stephen walks along Sandymount Strand for some time, mulling various philosophical concepts, his family, his life as a student in Paris, and his mother's death. As he reminisces he lies down among some rocks, watches a couple whose dog urinates behind a rock, scribbles some ideas for poetry and picks his nose. This chapter is characterised by a stream of consciousness narrative style that changes focus wildly. Stephen's education is reflected in the many obscure references and foreign phrases employed in this episode, which have earned it a reputation for being one of the book's most difficult chapters.