Day 6.

While I did not come to this conclusion on my own, apparently this is what has happened on page 1 through 8

• a man has fallen
• people are talking about it in a noisy, pub-like environment near Dublin landmark
• a female passerby observes
• identities are fluid
• the text presents fragmented social gossip and aftermath

I am reading too deeply into this, trying to understand every fucking pun. And it's not about that yet. He's setting a mood. A dickish mood, but a mood.

A woman named Kathe has been introduced, I think she's a janitor with a passkey.Joyce calls her a mistress. She can come and go at the museum, which has a Prussian gun. There's a french tip pun and an indication that you should tip the tour guide at the (Arthur) Wellington Museum.

The rest of the page is just the guide pointing out stuff you see in the room. Some cockney rhymes. Annoying. A waste of time, if you ask me. Just Joyce showing off. There's a sex joke about a sword.

Joyce wants you to feel drunk or concussed while reading this. Not sure this book needed to be 600+ pages. T. S. Elliott's the Wasteland does the same gimmick in a shorter poem.