The day-timeline: seven hero objects across the hours of 16 June 1904 A lane for each of seven objects, running left to right from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. A mark on a lane is one station. The lanes, top to bottom, are the lemon soap (11 stations), Stephen's wages (12), Mr Deasy's letter (8), the Elijah throwaway (9), Plumtree's potted meat (8), Bloom's latchkey, absent (5), and Martha's letter (10). One lane at a time is drawn heavy and named; the rest are dimmed and unlabelled. 8 A.M. TO 2 A.M. · SEVEN HERO OBJECTS The day-timeline 8 A.M. NOON 4 P.M. MIDNIGHT the lemon soap 11 stations Stephen's wages 12 stations Mr Deasy's letter 8 stations the Elijah throwaway 9 stations Plumtree's potted meat 8 stations Bloom's latchkey (absent) 5 stations Martha's letter 10 stations One lane to an object; one mark to a station 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM The census: thirty-two objects, 301 stations, ranked by station count Thirty-two named cases in two ranked columns, each with its station count and a rule whose length is that count. The ranking runs from Stephen's ashplant at 21 stations down to the seedcake on Howth and the torn Gold Cup betting tickets at 2 each. The longest rule, Stephen's ashplant, is drawn lit with a gold mark at its tip. THIRTY-TWO CASES · 301 STATIONS The census 21Stephen's ashplant 16Bloom's high grade hat 16the Freeman's Journal 15Stephen's Latin Quarter hat 15the Keyes ad cutting 14Sweets of Sin 13the Agendath Netaim flyer 12Stephen's wages 11Molly's uncollected lotion 11the lemon soap 10the brown macintosh 10Martha Clifford's letter 10the U.p: up postcard 9the Jacobs' biscuit tin 9the Elijah throwaway 9the blind stripling's cane 8the shrivelled potato 8the Henry Flower card 8the Martello tower key 8Mr Deasy's letter 8Plumtree's potted meat 7the orangekeyed chamberpot 7Boylan's letter to Mrs Marion Bloom 7Milly's letter 7Blazes Boylan's straw hat 7the red carnation 6Stephen's boots 5the moustachecup 5Bloom's latchkey (absent) 5Boylan's fruit basket 2the seedcake on Howth 2the torn Gold Cup betting tickets One bar to a case; its length is its station count 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM The museum's three states: present, recalled, hallucinated The 301 stations divided into three unequal parts drawn end to end on one measure: present 194, recalled 72, hallucinated 35. Present is a solid block, recalled an outlined one, hallucinated a hairline one, and each is repeated below as its mark — a filled circle, an open ring, a diamond — beside its count and name. 301 STATIONS · THREE STATES Present, recalled, hallucinated 301 stations in all 194 present in the scene 72 recalled in memory or thought 35 hallucinated in vision or dream Thirty-two cases · present, recalled, hallucinated 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM 301 stations, episode by episode Eighteen columns, one to an episode, each column's height its number of stations. The counts in order are 11, 2, 11, 18, 19, 17, 8, 21, 8, 18, 21, 12, 10, 8, 55, 12, 34 and 16. Episode 15 stands far above the rest at 55 and is drawn in gold; episode 17 is next at 34; episode 2 is lowest at 2. EIGHTEEN EPISODES · 301 STATIONS Stations, episode by episode 11211181917821818211210855123416 123456789101112131415161718 One column to an episode; its height is its count 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM The lemon soap, pocket by pocket: eleven stations Eleven stations down one spine, each with its hour and its place, from Sweny's counter at about a quarter past ten in the morning to the kitchen sink at 7 Eccles Street at about two the next morning. The ninth, the eastern sky at about midnight, is drawn as a diamond because it is hallucinated; the last is drawn in gold. To the right, a coat and trousers in outline with the four positions the soap rode in marked on them. ELEVEN STATIONS · ~10:15 A.M. TO ~2 A.M. The lemon soap, pocket by pocket ~10:15 a.m.Sweny's counter, then Bloom's left hand ~10:40 a.m.lodged in the folded Freeman ~11 a.m.the hip pocket, the funeral carriage ~11:45 a.m.the inner handkerchief pocket ~12:30 p.m.the hip pocket again ~2 p.m.the hip pocket, the museum gate ~9 p.m.on his person, Sandymount Strand ~midnightthe pocket, Mabbot Street ~midnightthe eastern skyhallucinated ~1 a.m.the pocket; suds on a handkerchief ~2 a.m.the kitchen sink, 7 Eccles Street where it rode Bought on credit for fourpence · still unpaid 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM Stephen's wages: the payment, and what is left of it Two panels side by side. On the left, three pounds twelve shillings as Deasy counted it out at about ten in the morning: two notes drawn as rectangles, then a sovereign, two crowns and two shillings drawn as circles of falling size. On the right, three measures at one scale falling from three pounds twelve at about ten in the morning, to two pounds nineteen at Holles street at about ten at night, to one pound seven, which is returned to Stephen at 7 Eccles Street at about two in the morning after Bloom takes custody of it at about half past twelve. The last measure is drawn in gold. SEVENTEEN HOURS · ~10 A.M. TO ~2 A.M. Three pounds twelve, and what is left of it £3-12-0 the payment ~10 a.m. · Deasy's tablecloth ~1 a.m. — one half-crown lent to Corley, out of another pocket £1-7-0 returned to Stephen £3-12-0 ~10 a.m. £2-19-0 ~10 p.m. · Holles street £1-7-0 ~12:30 a.m. · Bloom takes custody ~2 a.m. · returned, 7 Eccles Street Two notes, a sovereign, two crowns, two shillings 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM The Elijah throwaway on the Liffey, about one to about four in the afternoon The river drawn as a band widening eastward across the plate, with O'Connell bridge and the Loopline bridge crossing it, gulls above the first sighting and two hulls downriver. Four folded-paper marks sit on the water: at about one, crumpled and thrown to the gulls; at about three, shooting the rapids at the bridgepiers; at about three, rocked on the ferrywash at the North wall; and at about three to four, by flanks of ships and trawlers. The last is drawn in gold. NINE STATIONS IN ALL · FOUR OF THEM ON THE LIFFEY The throwaway on the Liffey O'Connell br. Loopline br. ~1 p.m. crumpled, thrown to the gulls ~3 p.m. rocked on the ferrywash, the North wall ~3 p.m. shooting the rapids at the bridgepiers ~3–4 p.m. by flanks of ships and trawlers Eastward, to the sea 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM Two instruments of tenure: the Martello tower key and Bloom's latchkey Two keys of identical size drawn side by side. On the left the Martello tower key, solid, with a gold rule beneath it: 8 stations, about a quarter past eight in the morning to about half past one at night; turned in the lock at about a quarter past eight, laid on Mulligan's heaped clothes at about twenty to nine. On the right Bloom's latchkey, drawn in broken hairline because it is absent: 5 stations, about a quarter past eight in the morning to about half past two at night; missed on the doorstep, and the area railings climbed over at about five past two. TWO KEYS Two instruments of tenure the Martello tower key 8 stations · ~8:15 a.m. to ~1:30 a.m. turned in the lock at ~8:15 a.m. laid on Mulligan's heaped clothes at ~8:40 a.m. Bloom's latchkey 5 stations · ~8:15 a.m. to ~2:30 a.m. missed on the doorstep at ~8:15 a.m. over the area railings at ~2:05 a.m. drawn solid; drawn dashed Martello tower key · Bloom's latchkey 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM Bloom's high grade hat, and the card behind the band The hat drawn large in section: the crown in outline, the brim as an ellipse, and the leather headband as a band across it. Tucked behind the headband is a small gold card, the Henry Flower card. The hat carries 16 stations and the card 8; the hat is Plasto's, of 1 Great Brunswick street. Below, the card's four moves: checked behind the headband in the hall at 7 Eccles Street at about eight; headband to waistcoat pocket at Westland Row at about a quarter to ten; handed through the brass grill at the post office at about ten; and back behind the headband at All Hallows at about half past ten. SIXTEEN STATIONS · THE CARD, EIGHT Bloom's hat, and the card behind the band the Henry Flower card behind the leather headband Plasto's, 1 Great Brunswick street the hat: 16 stations the card: 8 stations checked behind the headband, the hall at 7 Eccles Street ~8 a.m. headband to waistcoat pocket, Westland Row ~9:45 a.m. handed through the brass grill, the post office ~10 a.m. back behind the headband, All Hallows ~10:30 a.m. Four moves of the card, ~8 a.m. to ~10:30 a.m. 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM Stephen's ashplant: twenty-one stations, the longest case in the museum The ashplant drawn as a long tapering stick lying across the hours from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., with its twenty-one stations marked along it. Four are named: leaving the Martello tower at about half past eight in the morning; across Stephen's knee at the National Library at about half past two; grabbed up in the stampede from Holles street at about eleven at night; and in procession to the garden of 7 Eccles Street at about two in the morning, drawn in gold. One station, at about midnight, is a diamond because it is hallucinated. Ten of the twenty-one fall between midnight and one. TWENTY-ONE STATIONS · THE LONGEST CASE Stephen's ashplant ~8:30 a.m. — leaving the Martello tower ~2:30 p.m. — across Stephen's knee, the National Library ~11 p.m. — grabbed up in the stampede from Holles street ~2 a.m. — in procession to the garden of 7 Eccles Street 8 a.m.noon 4 p.m.8 p.m. midnight ten of the twenty-one fall between midnight and one Filled circle, present · diamond, hallucinated 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM The seedcake on Howth: two stations, recalled only A seedcake drawn very large as a broken circle, because it ceased to exist on Howth Head in 1888, with six seeds inside it. Sixteen years are measured off to its right. Its two stations on 16 June 1904 are both memories: Bloom's, at the burgundy in Davy Byrne's at about half past one in the afternoon, and Molly's, in the bed at 7 Eccles Street at about two to three in the morning. Each is marked with an open ring, the museum's mark for a thing recalled rather than present. TWO STATIONS · RECALLED ONLY The seedcake on Howth 2 stations, both recalled Howth Head, 1888 ceased to exist in 1888 sixteen years to 16 June 1904 ~1:30 p.m. Bloom's memory, at the burgundy in Davy Byrne's ~2–3 a.m. Molly's memory, the bed at 7 Eccles Street No hand holds it on 16 June 1904 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM 7 Eccles Street: the last stations, about two to about twenty to three in the morning The house drawn in section on the left — the bedroom, the front room and the basement kitchen, with the railed area in front and the garden behind — carrying ten marks where ten objects come to rest. The last of them, flakes of potted meat in the bed at about twenty to three, is drawn in gold. On the right the ten stations are listed in order with their hours, from the lemon soap at the sink to the flakes in the bed. TEN OBJECTS · ONE ADDRESS · FORTY MINUTES 7 Eccles Street, the small hours the sink: the lemon soap, used~2 a.m. the table: £1-7-0 returned to Stephen~2 a.m. the dresser apron: two torn betting tickets~2 a.m. the first drawer: Martha's letter, filed fourth~2 a.m. the garden: Stephen's ashplant~2 a.m. the area railings, climbed over~2:05 a.m. the dresser: the empty Plumtree pot~2:15 a.m. the larder shelf: Boylan's basket and port~2:15 a.m. the table: Sweets of Sin, opened~2:20 a.m. the bed: flakes of potted meat~2:40 a.m. The last station of ten cases 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM The Object Museum — an audience deck The title plate. The Object Museum: thirty-two things carried through one Dublin day, and everywhere they went. Thirty-two cases and 301 stations. The hero objects are the lemon soap, Stephen's wages, a letter, a throwaway, potted meat, a key, an ashplant and a hat. AN AUDIENCE DECK · 32 CASES · 301 STATIONS The Object Museum Thirty-two things carried through one Dublin day — and everywhere they went. SOAP · WAGES · A LETTER · A THROWAWAY POTTED MEAT · A KEY · AN ASHPLANT · A HAT 01 · OBJECT MUSEUM

The Object Museum

An audience deck. Hours follow the text approximately; the last stations fall between 2 a.m. and 2:40 a.m. Ulysses: a first reading · Dimension 1, The Object Museum · the museum.