Linati schema for Ulysses

This schema for the novel Ulysses was produced by Joyce in 1920 to help a friend (Carlo Linati) understand the fundamental structure of the book. The schema has been split into two subtables for better ease of reading.

Title	Time	Colour	People	Science / Art	Meaning
Telemachus	8am - 9am	Gold / white	Telemachus Mentor Antinous The Suitors Penelope	Theology	Dispossessed son in contest
Nestor	9am - 10am	Brown	Telemachus Nestor Pisistratus Helen	History	The wisdom of the ancients
Proteus	10am - 11am	Blue	Telemachus Proteus Menelaus Helen Megapenthes	Philology	Primal matter
Calypso	8am - 9am	Orange	Calypso Penelope Ulysses Callidike	Mythology	The departing wayfarer
Lotus Eaters[?]	9am - 10am	Dark brown	Euryloches Polites Ulysses Nausicaa	Chemistry	The temptation of faith
Hades	11am - 12pm	Black-white	Ulysses Elpenor Ajax Agamemnon Hercules Eriphyle Sisyphus Orion Laertes etc. Prometheus Cerberus Tiresais Hades Prosperpina Telemachus Antinous	-	The descent into nothingness
Aeolus	12pm - 1pm	Red	Aeolus Sons Telemachus Mentor Ulysses	Rhetoric	The derision of victory
Lestrygonians[?]	1pm - 2pm	Blood red	Antiphates The seductive daughter Ulysses	Architecture	Despondency
Scylla and Charybdis	2pm - 3pm	-	Scylla Charbydis Telemachus Ulysses Antinous	Literature	The double-edge sword
Wandering Rocks[?]	3pm - 4pm	Rainbow	Objects Places Forces Ulysses	Mechanics	The hostile milieu
Sirens	4pm - 5pm	Coral	Leucothea Parthenope Ulysses Orpheus Menelaus Argonauts	Music	The sweet deceit
Cyclops	5pm - 6pm	Green	Prometheus Noman Galatea Ulysses	Surgery	Egocidal terror
Nausicaa	8pm - 9pm	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	11pm - 12am	Violet	Circe The Swine Telemachus Ulysses Hermes	Dance	The man-hating ogress
Eumaeus	12pm - 1am	-	Eumaeus Ulysses Telemachus The Bad Goatherd Pseudangelos	-	The ambush on home ground
Ithaca	1pm - 2am	-	Ulysses Telemachus Eurycleia The suitors	-	Armed hope
Penelope	<math>\infty</math>	-	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	Cemetry[?], 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	-