# Linati schema for Ulysses

This schema, or explanatory outline, for the novel Ulysses was produced by its author, James Joyce, in 1920 in order to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two tables for better ease of reading.
| Title | Time | Colour | People | Science / Art | Meaning |
| Telemachus | 8 — 9 a.m. | Gold / white | Telemachus Mentor Antinous Suitors Penelope | Theology | Dispossessed son in contest |
| Nestor | 9 — 10 a.m. | Brown | Telemachus Nestor Pisistratus Helen | History | The wisdom of the ancients |
| Proteus | 10 — 11 a.m. | Green | Telemachus Proteus Menelaus Helen Megapenthes | Philology | Primal matter |
| Calypso | 8 — 9 a.m. | Orange | Calypso Penelope Ulysses Callidice | Mythology | The departing wayfarer |
| Lotus Eaters | 9 — 10 a.m. | Dark brown | Eurylochus Polites Ulysses Nausicaa | Chemistry | The temptation of faith |
| Hades | 11 a.m. — 12 noon | Black-white | Ulysses Elpenor Ajax Agamemnon Hercules Eriphyle Sisyphus Orion Laertes etc. Prometheus Cerberus Tiresias Hades Prosperpina Telemachus Antinous | - | The descent into nothingness |
| Aeolus | 12 noon — 1 p.m. | Red | Aeolus Sons Telemachus Mentor Ulysses | Rhetoric | The derision of victory |
| Lestrygonians | 1 — 2 p.m. | Blood red | Antiphates The seductive daughter Ulysses | Architecture | Despondency |
| Scylla and Charybdis | 2 — 3 p.m. | - | Scylla Charybdis Telemachus Ulysses Antinous | Literature | The double-edge sword |
| Wandering Rocks | 3 — 4 p.m. | Rainbow | Objects Places Forces Ulysses | Mechanics | The hostile milieu |
| Sirens | 4 — 5 p.m. | Coral | Leucothea Parthenope Ulysses Orpheus Menelaus Argonauts | Music | The sweet deceit |
| Cyclops | 5 — 6 p.m. | Green | Prometheus Noman Galatea Ulysses | Surgery | Egocidal terror |
| Nausicaa | 8 — 9 p.m. | Grey | Nausicaa Handmaidens Alcinous Arete Ulysses | Painting | The projected mirage |
| Oxen of the Sun | 10pm - 11pm | White | Lampetie Phaethusa Helios Hyperion Jove Ulysses | Physics | The eternal herds |
| Circe | 11 p.m. — 12 midnight | Violet | Circe The Swine Telemachus Ulysses Hermes | Dance | The man-hating ogress |
| Eumaeus | 12 midnight — 1 a.m. | - | Eumaeus Ulysses Telemachus The Bad Goatherd Pseudangelos | - | The ambush on home ground |
| Ithaca | 1 — 2 a.m. | - | Ulysses Telemachus Eurycleia The suitors | - | Armed hope |
| Penelope | $\infty$ | - | Ulysses Laertes Penelope | - | The past sleeps |
| Title | Technic | Organ | Symbols |
| Telemachus | Dialogue for three and four, narration, soliloquy | - | Hamlet, Ireland, Stephen |
| Nestor | Dialogue for 2, narration, soliloquy | - | Ulster, woman, practical sense |
| Proteus | Soliloquy | - | World, tide, Moon, evolution, metamorphosis |
| Calypso | Dialogue for 2, soliloquy | Kidneys | Vagina, exile, nymph, Israel in captivity |
| Lotus Eaters | Dialogue, prayer, soliloquy | Skin | Host, penis in the bath, froth, flower, drugs, castration, oats |
| Hades | Dialogue, narration | Heart | Cemetery, sacred heart, the past, the unknown man, the unconscious, heart defect, relics, heartbreak |
| Aeolus | Simbouleutike, dikanike, epideictic, tropes | Lungs | Machines, wind, fame, kite, failed destinies, the press, mutability |
| Lestrygonians | Peristaltic prose | Oesophagus | Bloody sacrifice, food, shame |
| Scylla and Charybdis | Whirlpools | Brain | Hamlet, Shakespeare, Christ, Socrates, London, Stratford, scholasticism, mysticism, Plato, Aristotle, youth, maturity |
| Wandering Rocks | Shifting labyrinth between two shores | Blood | Caesar, Christ, errors, homonyms, synchronisms, resemblances |
| Sirens | Fuga per canonem | Ear | Promises, female, sounds, embellishments |
| Cyclops | Alternating asymmetry | Muscles, bones | Nation, state, religion, dynasty, idealism, exaggeration, fanaticism, collectivity |
| Nausicaa | Retrogressive progression | Eye, nose | Onanism, feminine, hypocrisy |
| Oxen of the Sun | Prose, embryo, foetus, birth | Matrix, uterus | Fertilisation, frauds, parthenogenesis |
| Circe | Exploding vision | Locomotor apparatus, skeleton | Zoology, personification, pantheism, magic, poison, antidote, reel |
| Eumaeus | Relaxed prose | Nerves | - |
| Ithaca | Dialogue, pacified style, fusion | Juices | - |
| Penelope | Monologue, resigned style | Fat | - |