Day 25.

Page 28. More pub chatter left over from the previous page. Someone comparing someone's wife to Guinevere, though it's spelled queenoveire, which has a double meaning of Guinevere who cheated on Arthur (more myth), and theprankqueen who represents all of the stereotypes of women: mother, gossip, whore. And we're only seven words into the page.

The page starts to introduce more myth-chatter, perhaps to distract us from the name-calling.

Midway down the page he uses the made up word Guldenselver, which I suspect is Gulliver and gold and silver in one portmanteau.

The myth turns sexual, implying that out lady "Guinevere" gets around and that he husband doesn't get any sex from her.

The phrase "Forty winks for supper" brings back 40, which Joyce uses for "a lot," but the winks part indicates sleep, which is sleeping around, before he get home for supper. In Ireland supper is around 7pm, I think. Though there is a tasty meal and dessert waiting for the husband to get home.

She reads the world news, which is filled with events she can gossip about.

It sounds like Joyce is meandering, but we know better by know that he's building to something.

Anna Stacey has just arrived to the wake and someone asks how she is. Someone in the crowd. She just had her hair done.

Someone has told her, "Finn is no more."

I almost read page 29 and saw it was filled with made up words. Too late for that, tonight.